Foraging

The Forager's Harvest has many unique features that will appeal to naturalists, hikers, campers, survivalists, homesteaders, gardeners, chefs, Native Americans, and whole-food enthusiasts. The book contains a calendar of harvest times for wild produce, a step-by-step protocol for positive identification, an illustrated glossary tailored to the needs of foragers, a recommended reading list, plus special sections on conservation, safety, nutrition, harvest techniques, preparation methods, and storage.

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The purpose of this volume is to call attention to certain other useful plants, particularly those available as a source of human meat and drink, that are today growing wild in the woods, waters and open country of the United States.

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In a survival situation, plants can provide food and medicine. Their safe usage requires absolutely positive identification, knowing how to prepare them for eating, and knowing any dangerous properties they might have. Familiarity with botanical structures of plants and information on where they grow will make them easier to locate and identify.

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This manual features all plants that are injurious although many of these are not known to produce poisons, some even being most useful economic plants and yet injurious to some people.

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This guide is designed to be a starting point that aids you in determining basic traditional plant uses and in aiding you in the identification of each of the presented species. It is important to understand that there are plants that can and do kill people, some are similar in appearance to plants that are commonly used medicinally or as food.

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It is the object of this book to enumerate and describe such of our common wild plants, as ell as some frequently cultivated, which are at all likely to prove harmful to our little ones who are only too apt to put everything which appears attractive into their mounts.

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This book consists of comprehensive description of nearly all herbs with their medical properties and directions for compounding the medicines extracted from them.

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It is the hope of the Author that this small volume may prove to be of use to many who are interested in a short history, in non-technical language, of some western plants, and of their uses by the Indians and others as food as well as medicine. To describe all the useful and edible plants of the west would take a volume many times this size, but described here are those, the Author consider most important or interesting and certainly these would be those, in most cases, most often encountered.

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It is important to distinguish between edible versus poisonous plants, especially when you off the grid. This document contains information on the characteristics of different types of plants to help you identify them.

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In a survival situation, plants can provide food and medicine. Their safe usage requires absolutely positive identification, knowing how to prepare them for eating, and knowing any dangerous properties they might have. This manual will give familiarity with botanical structures of plants and information on where they grow that will make them easier to locate and identify.

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