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Forager's
Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing
Edible Wild Plants
by
Samuel Thayer
A practical guide to all aspects of
edible wild plants finding
and identifying them, their seasons of harvest, and their methods of
collection and preparation. Each plant is discussed in great detail and
accompanied by excellent color photographs. Includes an index,
illustrated glossary, bibliography, and harvest calendar. The perfect
guide for all experience levels.
Paperback, 368 pages.
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Strength of theEarth : The Classic
Guide to Ojibwe Uses of Native Plants
by
Frances Densmore
From techniques for tapping maple trees
and harvesting wild
rice to extracting dyes from bloodroot to making dishes from birch bark
and dolls with cattails, Strength of the Earth
details the
many uses of over 200 forest and prairie plants. Early
twentieth-century ethnologist Frances Densmore recorded traditions and
techniques relayed by dozens of Ojibwe women to create this invaluable
handbook perfect for readers interested in Native American art and
culture, organic gardening, natural remedies, and living off the land.
Brenda J. Child offers a fresh introduction focusing on the power of
female healers in Native communities.
Paperback, 397 Pages.
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The
Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America: Nature's Green Feast
by Francois Couplan
This book is the only one that:
- Lists all edible species - about 4,000 plants - on the
vast
North American continent that have been used as food by humans
- Contains a comprehensive account of each species,
including
etymology, geographical location, uses of each part, history of the
uses, composition, medicinal uses, possible toxicity, endangered
species, and much, much more.
- Is based on first-hand "grazing" research contucted over
ten
years on this continent by eminent European enthobotanist Francis
Couplan, Ph.D.
- Includes traditional Native American cooking techniques
and uses
for plants which the author recorded while living with various tribes
around the country
- Reflects an unusual bland of the author's 35 years of
personal
experience with edible plants and his highly sophisticated scientific
expertise. By relating to the senses and to the pleasure of discovering
amazing new tastes and flavors, the book encourages the reader to
develop new relationships with nature.
Francis Couplan, Ph.D. has been teaching about the uses of
plants
in the United States and Europe since 1975. He has written 17 books in
French and German, including The Encyclopedia of the Edible
Plants of Europe
in three volumes. A regular contributor to European health and nature
magazines, Couplan is popularizing the use of wild palnts in cooking by
working with several top chiefs in France, Germany, Switzerland and the
United States. He lives on a farm in Switzerland when's he's not
traveling around the world in search of new plants and new experiences
with them.
"I hope that the publication of this book will inspire
others to
learn more about nature and become more intimately acquainted with
edible and medicinal plants." James A Duke, Ph.D., author of The
Green Pharmacy
The most concise, expansive, and authoritative plant book
we’ve found.
Paperback, 583 pages.
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Edible
and Medicinal Plants of the Great Lakes Region
by Thomas
Naegele
This thorough and informative guide features over
150 plants
commonly found in the Great Lakes area, though many are prevalent
throughout the United States. Each plant description is coupled with a
detailed drawing, preparation techniques, related medicinal uses,
edible qualities, a chemical breakdown, and poisonous aspects. This
book also features over seventy tables, organized by ailment, that list
the plants known to cure specific symptoms.
Thomas A Naegele, D.O. is currently in private practice in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, and spent his youth among flora of Michigan's
Upper Penisula. Before becoming a doctor, he stuided botany and
published Edible Wild Plants of the Copper County
and Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Great Lakes.
His unique knowledge of medicine and botany are joined in this
extensive, well-researched, and heavily documented guide.
"Whether you may ever use wild plants for food or for some
medicinal purpose, care and precaution should always be exercised. Tom
Naegele's new ediition of this book provides the right kind of
information you need to do it wisely." - Richard Morscheck, Editor, Michigan
Natural Resources Magazine
Authoritative and well researched; covers food, healing
values,
preparation and author's personal experiences of 150 plants (many found
throughout the United States). Includes poisonous aspects. 70+ tables
organized by ailment.
Paperback, 423 pages.
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Botany
In a Day - The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
by Thomas Elpel
Too often people try to learn plants one-at-a-time, without
rhyme
or reason. Now you can cut years off the process of learning about
plants and uses. Tom's book help you beyond the piece-meal approach to
botany and herbalism towards a more "whole" approach. Within one and a
half hours you can understand the big-picture of botany and herbalism.
Learn how related plants have similar features for identification.
Discover how they often have similar properties and similar uses.
Tom's book takes you beyond the details towards a greater
understanding of the patterns among plants. By mid-morning you can be
in the field, matching flowers to the patterns in the book. Instead of
learning plants one-at-a-time you will discover that you can learn them
by the dozens--just by looking for patterns.
Most plant books cover only one or two hundred species.
Botany in
a Day includes more than 100 plant families and over 700
genera--applicable to many thousands of species.
By the end of the day you will have a functional knowledge
of
botany. You will be able to continue growing your knowledge of plants
and plant patterns--in the wild, in your garden, among house plants,
even at the florist. Understand the magic of patterns among plants, and
the world will never look the same again!
Oversize paperback, 182 pages. 5th Edition.
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Mushrooms of Northeast North America: Midwest to New England
by George Barron
This is a well-illustrated user friendly book with over 600
species and all of them are illustrated. The pictures are big, the
descriptions short and the keys simple (honest!). There are over 200
thumbnail images in color that help to get you where you want to go IN
A HURRY. The book is compact and can easily be carried in a backpack
without wearing you down. The different groups of fungi are color coded
for rapid access and the pages have rounded corners that don't get
dog-eared (page flippers will be especially grateful for these
features). The fungi are photographed in natural surroundings and the
pictures are very good to excellent. There are over 20 species of Slime
Molds described. Slime Molds are interesting (to some), attractive and
seldom illustrated in other books. All the fungi in the book are found
between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic coast. Most other books
contain large numbers of species from the west and the south that don't
fruit in our area and this is confusing.
This book is a wonderful field guide. Every picture is large
and
in vivid color not like many books that that have small or unclear
pictures. This detail makes distinguishing alike mushrooms simple, and
if you are still confused Mr. Barron's simple laid back notes on each
will correct any confusion. The book has user friendly color coded
sections. There is even extra information on edible and toxic mushrooms
overall there is no better book on the market today to identify
mushrooms period. Although Mr. Barron is an expert on this subject and
has a Ph.D in Mycology he is a master at keeping it simple.
Paperback, 336 pages.
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Plants Used by the Great Lakes Ojibwa
by James Meeker, Joan
Elias, and John Heim
The traditional medicinal arid edible sues of nearly 400
plants of
Northern Wisconsin and Michigan and Northwestern Minnesota. Organized
by habitat with a county-by-county range map for each species. Native
names listed for each plant.
Large-format paperback, 440 pages.
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Healing
Wise
by Susun Weed
A rare and deep sharing of the Earth-self-Balance healing
way,
along with an intimate approach to relationship with several Plants,
which she considers People, and their Healers.
Healing Wise sets forth the foundations of the Wise Woman
Tradition, contrasting them with the Heroic and Scientific views of
healing. "Weeds draw us into ancient wisdom in a clear and refreshing
way," says herbalist Rosemary Gladstar.
Seven herbs -- burdock, chickweed, dandelion, nettle,
oatstraw,
seaweed, and violet -- are explored in depth. Each monograph includes
the "voice" of the herb, a weed walk to encounter the herb in its
environment, detailed instructions for harvesting and preparation,
properties and uses for every part of the herb, pertinent facts, fun
folklore, and recipes for gourmet foodstuffs, wines, beers, cosmetics,
and more.
"Especially important is her discernment between the gentle
Wise
Woman Way and other "alternative" healing paths. . . . I wish every
healer would incorporate this approach," says Vicki Noble (Motherpeace
Tarot).
"One of the most powerful spokepersons of the herbal
movement,
Susun Weed introduces a marvelous sense of vitality and originality to
herbalism. A poet, artist and visionary, Weed draws us into ancient
wisdom in a way that is clear and refreshing. I recommend Healing
Wise highly - there is good medicine in these teachings." -
Rosemary Gladstar, Founder California School of Herbal Studies
"Healing Wise is filled with the wisdom
of our
Earth Mother who is the caretaker of all beings. To everyone concerned
with personal and planetary health, this book speaks as a vital
messenger and a call to wholeness from the Mother Earth." - Ywylah
Nitshce, Yehwehnode Two Wolves, Seneca Elder, Wolf Clan
Paperback, 295 pages.
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