Useful Wild Plants of the United States and Canada
Author : Charles Francis Saunders
Publisher : New York : R.M. McBride
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Botany
ISBN :
Author : Charles Francis Saunders
Publisher : New York : R.M. McBride
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Botany
ISBN :
Author : Janice J. Schofield
Publisher : Anchorage : Alaska Northwest Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Nature
ISBN :
More than 130 plants (including trees, roots, wildflowers, herbs, seaweed, and mushrooms) from Alaska, Yukon Territory, through western Canada, to Washington, Oregon and northern California are profiled. Information provided includes precise botanical identification, history (New and Old World folk uses), harvest and habitat information, and recipes.
Author : Thomas S. Elias
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781402767159
Presents a season-by-season guide to the identification, harvest, and preparation of more than two hundred common edible plants to be found in the wild.
Author : Andrew MacKinnon
Publisher : Lone Pine Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Botany, Medical
ISBN : 9781551055725
Canada is home to a vast diversity of plants that have helped nourish and heal our people for thousands of years. Find out about: * First Nations uses of plant species * Gathering and preparing wild plants for a variety of uses * Historic European uses of plant species * Plants for everything from clothing to shelter * The fundamentals of survival - food and medicines * Clear descriptions of the plants and where to find them * Warnings about plant allergies, poisons and digestive upsets * A special section identifying poisonous plants and species that are similar * More than 530 colour photographs and 125 illustrations.
Author : John Kallas
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1423616596
The founder of Wild Food Adventures presents the definitive, fully illustrated guide to foraging and preparing wild edible greens. Beyond the confines of our well-tended vegetable gardens, there is a wide variety of fresh foods growing in our yards, neighborhoods, or local woods. All that’s needed to take advantage of this wild bounty is a little knowledge and a sense of adventure. In Edible Wild Plants, wild foods expert John Kallas covers easy-to-identify plants commonly found across North America. The extensive information on each plant includes a full pictorial guide, recipes, and more. This volume covers four types of wild greens: Foundation Greens: wild spinach, chickweed, mallow, and purslane Tart Greens: curlydock, sheep sorrel, and wood sorrel Pungent Greens: wild mustard, wintercress, garlic mustard, and shepherd’s purse Bitter Greens: dandelion, cat’s ear, sow thistle, and nipplewort
Author : Peter Scott
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Plants, Edible
ISBN : 9780986537608
In an era before supermarkets became our main source of food, most people knew which wild plants were edible and how to prepare them for delicious meals. The woods, clearings, heaths, and seashores of Atlantic Canada are home to a wide variety of edible plants. In this book, author Peter Scott provides a wealth of information on more than sixty wild edible plant species. This easy-to-use guide includes important details about identification, habitats in which the plants are found, basic recipes, a glossary, and references, so that everybody can enjoy the bounty that exists outsides our doors.
Author : Kelly Kindscher
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Provides information on identification and uses of edible prairie plants.
Author : Frances Densmore
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 32,25 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Cooking
ISBN :
Describes Chippewa techniques of gathering and preparing nearly two hundred wild plants of the Great Lakes area and provides information on their medicinal usage and botanical and common names. Bibliogs
Author : Tom Reaume
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780889772144
620 Wild Plants of North America describes, in beautiful detail, the characteristic features of 89 families of vascular plants--including trees, shrubs, vines, wildflowers, grasses, sedges, horsetails, and club-mosses--using labeled ink drawings, text and range maps.
Author : Marilyn Walker
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Wild Plants of Eastern Canada is a comprehensive guide to the region's plants, including their culinary, medicinal, folk, and ecological uses. The book also explores the cultural history of wild plant use among Aboriginal-Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Passamaquoddy-and non-Aboriginal-Black, Acadian, and Celtic-peoples. Bridging the academic and the popular, the book includes easy-to-read profiles of sixty plant species, each identified with an actual size leaf-print specimen as well as a realistic reproduction for identification. Nearly sixty recipes are included for use in contemporary cuisine. The book does not include cultivated plants, seaweeds, or trees. Includes safety tips for identifying and avoiding poisonous plants.