National Geographic Backyard Guide to Edible Wild Plants By Mimi Prunella Hernandez and Heather Wood Buzzard
National Geographic Backyard Guide to Edible Wild Plants By Mimi Prunella Hernandez and Heather Wood Buzzard
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About National Geographic Backyard Guide to Edible Wild Plants
Forage more than 100 delicious edible plants straight from your backyard with this useful, engaging, beautifully illustrated guide.
Nature-lovers, gardeners, and foodies can turn their backyard into a bounty with tips for identifying wild plants, advice for beginner and experienced harvesters, and more than 600 ideas and recipes to bring the wild into the kitchen.
Joining National Geographic’s long line of successful nature guides, National Geographic Backyard Guide to Edible Wild Plants is a colorful, appealing handbook to 102 common wild plants that can be foraged for delicious food and drink. From superstar sunflowers to spicy field mustard to alluring wild grapes, this book identifies a wide variety of flavors and textures that even novice foragers can learn to harvest with care, safety, and sustainability. From there, creative uses abound, including the how-tos behind:
- elderberry jam
- chickweed salad
- sunchoke soup
- sassafras tea
- wild carrot cake
- homemade backyard cider
