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Sam Thayer's Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Of Eastern and Central North America

by Samuel Thayer

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A regional guide to identifying wild edible plants

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A regional guide to identifying wild edible plants

Covering Eastern and Central North America, this 736-page field guide brings plant identification together with practical information on habitat, conservation, harvest seasons, edible parts, and preparation. Its entries include range maps and color photographs for 700 edible species, alongside descriptions of toxic plants that can be difficult to distinguish. The identification system uses everyday language and is designed to work on its own or alongside phone-based identification apps. The book’s scope makes it useful as a reference across the process of recognizing a plant and understanding how it is gathered and prepared.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Beginning and experienced foragers seeking a regional plant reference
  • Readers interested in edible wild plants, their habitats, and preparation
  • Foragers who use field guides alongside phone-based identification apps

Themes

Wild plant identificationForaging and food preparationPlant habitats and conservationSafe recognition of edible and toxic species

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Book overview

Eastern North America is one of the richest foraging landscapes in the world, with a wild abundance of fruits, berries, nuts, roots, tubers, shoots, flowers, seeds, and leafy greens. This guide is the key to unlocking the nutritional and culinary secrets of the natural bounty around us. As the most comprehensive regional guide ever written, it contains detailed descriptions, range maps, and sharp color photos of 700 edible species as well as some of our most troublesome toxic plants. Sam Thayer's Field Guide pioneers a novel identification system using everyday language accessible to beginning and advanced foragers alike, designed to stand alone or work with phone-based identification apps to confirm positive ID before a plant is eaten. Readers will also learn about the plant's habitat, conservation, edible parts, seasons of harvest, and methods of preparation. Destined to become the new standard in foraging field guides.

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