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The Basic Essentials of Edible Wild Plants and Useful Herbs | 
 enlarge | Author: Jim Meuninck
Publisher: Ics Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1468819
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 66
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 0934802416
Dewey Decimal Number: 581.6320973
EAN: 9780934802413
ASIN: 0934802416
Publication Date: September 1988
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Book Description
Identify, collect and eat over 100 of the most nutritious plants in North America. Find 35 wild plants growing in your back yard. Discover ancient pharmaceutical uses for common herbs. An appendix catalogs and indexes many poisonous and poisonous look-a-likes. Edible Wild Plants also provides categorization by environment rather than by alphabet. Examples are rivers, lakes, ponds and swamps, woodlands, yards, and meadows, and others.
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 Excellent guide of over 100 common edible plants October 9, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've used more comprehensive guides than this, but I've never seen so much valuable information together in just 66 pages. In my own experience foraging, I've used several other much larger guides, but I had to use several sources to find all the commonly found edible plants that I've seen hiking through Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. While other guides devote most of their pages to plants rarely seen, this little book is almost completely filled with edible plants you are likely to see on a short hike. It also gives recommended uses, preparations, and warnings. There is also a small section on commonly found poisonous plants. I have not seen the accompanying video. While I'd recommend reading more verbose guides as well, I've seen no other book that gives so much valuable information in so small of a space.
Author's Unabashed Review December 11, 1999
37 out of 38 found this review helpful
This second edition has color photos. There are detailed recipes and identification tips. We cover Native American medicine, Chinese medicinal uses and modern pharmaceutical uses. The book is called the basic essentials because there are many edible wild plants out there that are not fit to eat! In this book I focused on plants worthy of your cooking efforts. The book, unlike others, is organized by how you stumble across wild plants: geographic context. Or, more simply, they are organized in the environment that they are found. Thus, plants in wet areas are treated separately from meadow plants. And plants of the forest have their unique section separate from the seashore and mountianous plants. Yes, we have added plants from the seashore and tidal zones as well as my favorites from mountainous areas...We didn't leave the sunbirds out either. There are several desert edible included. There is a important section on poisonous plants and poisonous look alikes. There are more recipes, better recipes and lists of my top ten favorite wild plants and my top ten favorite edible flowers. With color photos and attention to plants that are quality food (vitamin, mineral and phytochemical content) this new field guide is a great value for under ten dollars.
 Identify, collect, and eat over 100 plants in North America. June 28, 1997
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
Identify, collect, and eat over 100 plants in North America.Find 35 wild plants growing in your back yard. Discover ancient pharmaceutical uses for common herbs. An appendix catalogs and indexes many poisonous and poisonous look-a-likes.
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