Midwest Foraging : : 115 Wild and Flavorful Edibles From Burdock to Wild Peach

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Call Number: 581.632 Ro, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Plants / Rose, Lisa M
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	581.632 Ro	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	581.632 Ro	4-week checkout	Due 05-21-2024
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	581.632 Ro	4-week checkout	Due 05-16-2024
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Plants / Rose, Lisa M	4-week checkout	Due 05-18-2024

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Lovely Photographs of Plants submitted by sdunav on August 16, 2015, 3:21pm This new foraging book has some very nice suggestions and advice (especially about foraging sustainably and safely, considering polluted soils, pesticides, etc.), and lovely photographs of the plants, but I wasn't overly impressed with the advice for actually eating the stuff collected. Some of the plants featured are only marginally edible - tasteless or bitter - in my opinion, and even the ones that are good (like goosefoot and garlic mustard) have not so thrilling suggestions for preparation. But it's a fun book to browse, and I liked the fact that the author was from Michigan and that pretty much everything she featured is available around here (except kudzu! Why was that in here? Has it really made its way into the midwest??).

I had never heard of chaga - the fruiting body of a fungus that grows on dead or dying birch trees - so that was eye-opening for me.

Very useful! submitted by samanthar on July 19, 2022, 1:20pm This is a really useful guide to foraging. For each plant, it shows How to identify, where and when to gather, how to gather, how to eat, and future harvests (tips for sustainability). Included are cautions if there are poisonous plants it may be mistaken for. There are pictures of the plant up close, and even in various seasons for some of them, which makes identification easier. So far, this has been the best foraging guide for our area I've checked out!