by babihutan » Sun Jul 21, 2013 11:54 pm
Was always a curiosity for me, but every piece of literature I've come across on the subject has had a sentence description for each plant at best, usually accompanied by a thumbnail size black and white pic.....until I found these two books by Samuel Thayer - The Forager's Harvest, and Nature's Garden. These books dedicate a whole chapter to ONE plant, providing multiple colour photos of different stages of growth, very detailed info on where to find them, what part of the plant to avoid and when, best edible parts etc, and dispels many of the negative myths surrounding certain plants. I can honestly say that after only a year of owning these books, I now see food all over the place, and have tried close to half of the plants mentioned. As far as survival goes, most of this food is low on calories, and very seasonal, so you would have to compliment this with earth worms or hunting/fishing if lucky.