Find connection with the land and feed your family locally, seasonally, and sustainably
Nourish your family from nature's pantry. Foraging as a Way of Life documents twelve months of wildcrafting, featuring five different plants each month for a full year of abundant, local, and seasonal eating. Enhance your sense of self-sufficiency while increasing food security, protecting habitat, and connecting with the land.
Full-color and lavishly illustrated, this accessible, in-depth resource features:
- Accurate and detailed descriptions of herbs, mushrooms, berries, and other wild plants to avoid confusion and inspire confidence when determining plant identification.
- Foraging recipes for remedies, tonics, syrups, and unique handcrafted dishes incorporating wild ingredients—feast on rosehip soup with pan-fried dandelion flowers, followed by birch- bark cookies or chicory chocolate bars.
- Extensive guidance for safe processing or consumption of each species, including cautions, lookalikes, and tips for sustainable harvesting.
Drawing on the author's field experience and her study of herbalism and ethnobotany, Foraging as a Way of Life is designed to inspire readers to share the exuberance and joy of wild foods while finding nourishment and connection in their local fields or forests. A must for every gardener who would like to gather dinner while weeding, for those wishing to learn sustainable harvesting while hiking, or for anyone who wants to create healthy, foraged meals while living lightly on the planet.
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Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Praise 2
- Title Page 6
- Rights Page 7
- Contents 8
- Disclaimer 10
- Territorial Acknowledgment 12
- Foreword 14
- How to Use This Book 16
- Welcome to This Book 18
- Notes About the Land 22
- A Year of Plants and Mushrooms 26
- March 27
- Wild Ginger 27
- Weeping Willow 30
- Norway Maple 35
- Kinnikinnick 39
- Early Blue Violet 42
- April 46
- Cleavers 46
- Purple Dead Nettle 50
- Oxeye Daisy 53
- Hairy Bittercress 56
- Stinging Nettle 61
- May 66
- Dandelion 66
- Asparagus 70
- Prickly Lettuce 74
- Black Elderberry 78
- Catnip 83
- June 86
- Red Clover 86
- Salsify 91
- Lamb’s Quarters 95
- Common Mallow 99
- St. John’s Wort 105
- July 109
- Saskatoon 109
- Sheep Sorrel 113
- Thimbleberry 116
- Oregon Grape 120
- Black Hawthorn 125
- August 129
- Curly Dock 129
- Western Giant Puffball 133
- Chokecherry 138
- White Sweetclover 142
- Plantain 146
- September 152
- Purslane 152
- Common Burdock 155
- Chickweed 159
- White Chanterelle 163
- Lobster Mushroom 169
- October 173
- Yarrow 173
- Rosy Gomphidius 179
- Black Walnut 183
- Chicory 188
- Dog Rose 192
- November 197
- Late Fall Oyster Mushroom 197
- Large-leaved Avens 201
- Western Mountain Ash 205
- Prince’s Pine 210
- Rocky Mountain Juniper 214
- December 218
- Field Pennycress 218
- Trembling Aspen 222
- Ponderosa Pine 227
- White Spruce 236
- Western Redcedar 241
- January 246
- Lodgepole Pine 246
- Interior Douglas-fir 251
- Beaked Hazel 256
- Western Hemlock 262
- Paper Birch 267
- February 273
- Common Barberry 273
- Rocky Mountain Maple 278
- Sulphur Cinquefoil 282
- Black Cottonwood 285
- Lamb’s Ears 290
- Acknowledgments 294
- Glossary 296
- Glossary Drawings 304
- References 314
- Websites 318
- Index to Common and Scientific Names 320
- About the Author 328
- About New Society Publishers 329
- A Guide to Responsible Digital Reading 330
