Incredible Wild Edibles
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (881 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0976626624 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He lives in rural northern Wisconsin with his wife and three children. . Besides lecturing and writing, Samuel is an advocate for sustainable food systems who owns a diverse organic orchard and harvests wild rice, acorns, hickory nuts, maple syrup, and other wild products. Samuel Thayer is an internationally recognized authority on edible wild plants who has authored two award-winning books on the topic, Nature’s Garden and The Forager’s Harvest. He has taught
The plants chosen represent every habitat and every region in North America, from the northern forests to the southwest deserts, from the largest cities to the wildest mountains. The text is fully accessible to the novice, but remains botanically accurate and has the in-depth information that seasoned foragers crave. Rather than cover hundreds of species in brief accounts that leave the reader unsure of how to proceed, Samuel Thayer encourages readers to thoroughly learn one plant at a time. All of this is delivered in a familiar but authoritative tone, along with humorous anecdotes
About the Author Samuel Thayer is an internationally recognized authority on edible wild plants who has authored two award-winning books on the topic, Nature’s Garden and The Forager’s Harvest. Besides lecturing and writing, Samuel is an advocate for sustainable food systems who owns a diverse organic orchard and harvests wild rice, acorns, hickory nuts, maple syrup, and other wild products. He has taught foraging and field identification for more than two decades. He lives in rural northern Wisconsin with his wife and three children.