This helpful guide book offers a veritable feast for foragers, with tools for safely identifying an abundance of delicious wild plants.
“An invaluable guide for the feast in the East.” —Hank Shaw, author of the James Beard Award–winning website Hunter Angler Gardener Cook
The plant profiles in Northeast 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 New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Rhode Island.
Leda Meredith is a lifelong forager and a certified ethnobotanist. She is an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, specializing in edible and medicinal plants. The author of four other books, Meredith writes forMother Earth Newsand leads tours internationally for organizations including Slow Food, Green Edge, Cornell University, and Purchase University.
Preface: Confessions of a Lifelong Forager
“Yes, that’s the right plant. We’re going to cook the leaves tonight with a little garlic and olive oil, then we’ll add a little lemon juice and—” My great-grandmother pressed the four fingers and thumb of one hand together and brought the fingertips to her lips for a smacking kiss. Her eyes sparkled with the anticipated pleasure of eating the dandelion greens I’d just helped her pick. We were in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, and I was three years old.
Great-grandma was from Greece, where to this day foraging for wild edibll#,
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