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Backyard foraging : 65 familiar plants you didn't know you could eat / Ellen Zachos.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: North Adams, MA : Storey Pub., c2013.Description: 239 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1612120091 (pbk.)
  • 9781612120096 (pbk.)
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Contents:
Getting Started, Identifying Habitats in the 'Hood: Ensuring safety ; Ethical harvesting. -- Harvest With Care, You Don't Have to Sacrifice Your Scenery: Picking shoots and young foliage ; Foraging flowers, fruits, and nuts ; Digging roots and tubers ; Timing for taste. -- Grazing Greens: Tasty Leaves and Stems -- The Fruits of Nature's Labor: Edible Flowers and Fruits -- Nature's Granola: Nuts and Seeds -- Hidden Treasure: Roots, Tubers, and Rhizomes -- Superstars: Plants With Many Edible Parts -- Friendly Fungi: Five Easy Mushrooms -- You Wouldn't Do This if it Didn't Taste Good, Preserving Advice and Basic Recipes: Freezing ; Dehydration ; Syrups, jams, and jellies ; Booze ; Baked goods and savory dishes ; Fruity miscellany ; Mushrooms ; Vendors of mushroom growing supplies ; Food preparation.
Summary: Trying to eat locally? Discover food in the plant life all around you. Learn to eat your way around the block! Your backyard or a nearby park or vacant lot might be rich with edible possibilities. The author leads you through harvesting etiquette, plant identification, and tips on how to eat the leaves, flowers, nuts, seeds, roots, and mushrooms that are there for the taking. Foraging is the fun, safe, and free way to eat locally.
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Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 581.632 Z16 Checked out 05/25/2024 33111007191212
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction Adult Display - Second Floor 581.632 Z16 Spring Plant Swap - May 2024 Checked out 06/08/2024 33111007140565
Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library NonFiction 581.632 Z16 Available 33111006166546
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

There's food growing everywhere! You'll be amazed by how many of the plants you see each day are actually nutritious edibles. Ideal for first-time foragers, this book features 70 edible weeds, flowers, mushrooms, and ornamental plants typically found in urban and suburban neighborhoods. Full-color photographs make identification easy, while tips on common plant locations, pesticides, pollution, and dangerous flora make foraging as safe and simple as stepping into your own backyard.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-228) and index.

Getting Started, Identifying Habitats in the 'Hood: Ensuring safety ; Ethical harvesting. -- Harvest With Care, You Don't Have to Sacrifice Your Scenery: Picking shoots and young foliage ; Foraging flowers, fruits, and nuts ; Digging roots and tubers ; Timing for taste. -- Grazing Greens: Tasty Leaves and Stems -- The Fruits of Nature's Labor: Edible Flowers and Fruits -- Nature's Granola: Nuts and Seeds -- Hidden Treasure: Roots, Tubers, and Rhizomes -- Superstars: Plants With Many Edible Parts -- Friendly Fungi: Five Easy Mushrooms -- You Wouldn't Do This if it Didn't Taste Good, Preserving Advice and Basic Recipes: Freezing ; Dehydration ; Syrups, jams, and jellies ; Booze ; Baked goods and savory dishes ; Fruity miscellany ; Mushrooms ; Vendors of mushroom growing supplies ; Food preparation.

Trying to eat locally? Discover food in the plant life all around you. Learn to eat your way around the block! Your backyard or a nearby park or vacant lot might be rich with edible possibilities. The author leads you through harvesting etiquette, plant identification, and tips on how to eat the leaves, flowers, nuts, seeds, roots, and mushrooms that are there for the taking. Foraging is the fun, safe, and free way to eat locally.

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