Author : Kelly Kindscher
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 32,74 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN :
Kindscher documents the medicinal use of 203 native prairie plants by the Plains Indians. He also adds information on recent pharmacological findings to further illuminate the medicinal nature of these plants. He uses Indian, common, and scientific names and describes Anglo folk uses, medicinal uses, scientific research, and cultivation.
Author : Kelly Kindscher
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2024-11-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0700637028
The wild plants in this book tell stories of land, people, and food. As renowned botanist Kelly Kindscher guides us through over one hundred edible plants in this beautiful field guide, we find that foraging has always been an important part of prairie life. Before colonization, Native American women were the primary gatherers of wild plants, which were an abundant, sustainable, and delicious feature of Indigenous diets. Colonizers reduced the significance of wild plants in prairie life as they relocated Native peoples and imposed their agrarian culture on the land, but these Indigenous foodways were never truly lost. In the recent past, foraging has become a tremendously popular way for many peoples to connect with the earth, promote sustainability, and revive and honor cultural food traditions. In this beautifully illustrated new edition, Kindscher explores 117 wild plants of the prairie, offering information about habitat, food use, and cultivation. Color photos and maps make this stunning book a useful foraging guide for anyone to take out into the prairie. A must-have for enthusiasts and professionals alike, Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie gives us the great opportunity to engage with the land we live in.
Author : Matthew Alfs
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781681341750
An authoritative and easy-to-use reference to the medicinal and edible properties of wild plants from throughout the upper Midwest. An essential guide for anyone interested in natural healing.
Author : Kelly Kindscher
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : pages
File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 1992-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780785772668
The medicinal use of 203 native prairie plants by the Plains Indians is presented. This book will increase the appreciation for prairie plants at a time when prairies need protection.
Author : John Slattery
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 24,33 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1604699116
Wildcraft your way to wellness! In Southwest Medicinal Plants, John Slattery is your trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting, and using 112 of the region’s most powerful wild plants. You’ll learn how to safely and ethically forage, and how to use wild plants in herbal medicines including teas, tinctures, and salves. Plant profiles include clear, color photographs, identification tips, medicinal uses and herbal preparations, and harvesting suggestions. Lists of what to forage for each season makes the guide useful year-round. Thorough, comprehensive, and safe, this is a must-have for foragers, naturalists, and herbalists in Arizona, southern California, southern Colorado, southern Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, western and central Texas, and southern Utah.
Author : Kelly Kindscher
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN :
One of the most important, original contributions to American medicinal plant literature in decades. Combining thoughtful insight with thorough research, this book has broad appeal, yet is scientifically sound--a rare blend with lasting value.
Author : Sergei Boutenko
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1583946276
Sergei Boutenko’s groundbreaking field guide to the art and science of foraging and preparing wild edible plants—includes 300+ photos of 60 plants **An Amazon Editors' Pick -- Best Cookbooks, Food & Wine** In Wild Edibles, Sergei Boutenko’s bestselling work on the art and science of live-food wildcrafting, readers will learn how to safely identify 60 delicious trailside weeds, herbs, fruits, and greens growing all around us. It also outlines basic rules for safe wild-food foraging and discusses poisonous plants, plant identification protocols, gathering etiquette, and conservation strategies. But the journey doesn’t end there. Rooted in Boutenko’s robust foraging experience, botanary science, and fresh dietary perspectives, this practical companion gives hikers, backpackers, raw foodists, gardeners, chefs, foodies, DIYers, survivalists, and off-the-grid enthusiasts the necessary tools to transform their simple harvests into safe, delicious, and nutrient-rich recipes. Special features include: 60 edible plant descriptions, most of them found worldwide 300+ color photos that make plant identification easy and safe 67 tasty, high-nutrient plant-based recipes, including green smoothies, salads and salad dressings, spreads and crackers, main courses, juices, and sweets For the wildly adventurous and playfully rebellious, Wild Edibles will expand your food options, providing readers with the inspiration and essential know-how to live more healthy (yet thrifty), more satisfying (yet sustainable) lives.
Author : Jan Phillips
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Cooking (Wild foods)
ISBN : 9781887247184
A guide to locating and preparing wild edible plants growing in Missouri. Each plant has a botanical name attached. The length or season of the flower bloom is listed; where that particular plant prefers to grow; when the plant is edible or ready to be picked, pinched, or dug; how to prepare the wildings; and a warning for possible poisonous or rash-producing plants or parts of plants.--from Preface (p. vi).
Author : Samuel Thayer
Publisher : Foragers Harvest Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,63 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780976626619
Presents a guide on locating, identifying, picking, and preparing wild edible foods grown in North America.
Author : Kelly Kindscher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 2016-06-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319181564
This book provides an in-depth analysis of one the of most popular medicinal plants—Echinacea a species that is native to only the US and Canada. There are nine Echinacea species and several roots and above-ground portions of these showy wildflowers have been used in herbal medicine as an immune stimulant and to reduce one’s chances of catching a cold. Considerable medical research supports these claims. The most popular species and the primary one wild-harvested is the one native to the Great Plains, Echinacea angustifolia. It has a long history of use, including being both historically and currently the most widely-used medicinal plant by any of the Great Plains Native Americans. The importance of this species is described by the editor with a few key contributors chosen to relate the important facets of the story of this interesting plant: Echinacea’s biology, ecology, medicinal uses, markets, production and harvest, along with population biology, legal protections, ethnobotany, and history. The US Forest Service has expressed concern about the conservation status of Echinacea species on their lands, especially on the National Grasslands and National Forest units in the northern Great Plains. Overall, the future status of Echinacea, as an important medicinal plant and in the wild is not grim, but this book provides a clear perspective of why both cultivated and wild-harvested Echinacea will continue to be available to consumers without threatening the remaining populations.
