Foraging for Edible Wild Plants

Name: Foraging for Edible Wild Plants
ISBN: 9780857845597

How to identify, cook and enjoy them

Gail Harland,

192 pages
English
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Foraging for Edible Wild Plants

How to identify, cook and enjoy them

Gail Harland,

About this book

Foraging for Edible Wild Plants is a practical and attractive guide to the many edible varieties of wild plant that grow all around us. It will appeal to gardeners, botanists, cooks and foragers, and to anyone who wants to control invasive plants and weeds in eco-friendly ways.

Wild plants have many virtues. They are:

Valuable for wildlife and beneficial insects.
Good for the soil – locking in nutrients
Helpful in the accumulation of trace elements in soil
Hosts for essential mycorrhizal fungi underground
Interesting and unusual ingredients in cooking

Foraging for Edible Wild Plants provides full details of over 50 edible species, with:

Illustrated notes on appearance and habitat
Valuable nutritional information
advice on how to cook them
numerous recipe suggestions for jams, cordials, pesto, salads and soups
fascinating historical facts
tips for non-culinary uses such as dyes from nettles and soap from soapwort
advice on controlling invasive species such as knotweed (eat them!)
identifying wild plants that are harmful if eaten
attractive colour photographs throughout.

Foraging for Edible Wild Plants covers both common plants, such as nettle, dandelion, chickweed and ground elder, and less common ones, such as brooklime and wintercress.

The author is a qualified dietician and horticulturalist, who puts her troublesome weeds to good use. Put Foraging for Edible Wild Plants on the bookshelf to do the same and welcome some new, plentiful edibles into the kitchen.

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