Midwest Foraging: 115 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Burdock to Wild Peach [Paperback]

The Midwest offers a veritable feast for foragers, and with Lisa Rose as your trusted guide, you'll learn how to safely find and identify an abundance of delicious wild plants. 

“This full color guide makes foraging accessible for beginners and is a reliable source for advanced foragers.” —Edible Chicago  

The plant profiles in Midwest Foraging include: 

• Clear, color photographs 
• Identification tips 
• Guidance on how to ethically harvest 
• Suggestions for eating and preserving 

A handy seasonal planner details which plants are available during every season. Thorough, comprehensive, and safe, this is a must-have for foragers in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, and North Dakota.

Lisa M. Rose is an herbalist and forager with a background in anthropology and a professional focus on community health. Her interest in ethnobotany and herbal medicine has taken her to study plants, people, health, and their connection to place internationally. Rose leads foraging plant walks and teaches classes on edible and medicinal wild plants. She forages for her own family, herbal apothecary, and community herbalism practice.

Preface: Cultivating a Sense of Place 
As a child, I lived only minutes from Lake Michigan. The open fields, woods, sandy dunes, and Big Lake were my playground. 

I remember growing up in my mother’s garden: Tall stalks of corn, overgrown zucchini bushes, large heads of cabbages—all part of the bounty grown for our dinner table. My mother canned and made preserves from our seasonal garden, but we also had wild foods as part of our harvests. The wild grapes lining the backyard fence were turned into jellies and canned juice. Morel mushrooms in the spring were added to eggs and pasta. Apples were pickl3Æ