Midwest Foraging: 115 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Burdock to Wild Peach by L

Description: Midwest Foraging by Lisa M. Rose Part of the Timber Press Regional Foraging book series, this is for foragers in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Ontario, Canada. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This full color guide makes foraging accessible for beginners and is a reliable source for advanced foragers. Edible Chicago The Midwest offers a veritable feast for foragers, and with Lisa Rose as your trusted guide you will learn how to safely find and identify an abundance of delicious wild plants. The plant profiles in Midwest Foraging include clear, color photographs, identification tips, guidance on how to ethically harvest, and suggestions for eating and preserving. A handy seasonal planner details which plants are available during every season. Thorough, comprehensive, and safe, this is a must-have for foragers in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, and North Dakota. Back Cover With this savvy guide youll learn what to look for, when and where to look, and how to gather in a responsible way. An A-to-Z guide for foraging year-round Detailed information for safe identification Collecting tips for sustainable harvesting Tips for preparation and use Flap With this savvy guide youll learn what to look for, when and where to look, and how to gather in a responsible way. An A-to-Z guide for foraging year-round Detailed information for safe identification Collecting tips for sustainable harvesting Tips for preparation and use Author Biography Lisa M. Rose is an herbalist and forager with a background in anthropology and a professional focus on community health. Her interest in ethnobotany and herbal medicine has taken her to study plants, people, health, and their connection to place internationally. Rose leads foraging plant walks and teaches classes on edible and medicinal wild plants. She forages for her own family, herbal apothecary, and community herbalism practice. Review "Lisa Rose is exactly the sort of person you want to teach you how to forage for wild food. Her calm, warming voice and extensive plant knowledge make you want to dash out your back door to discover what edible delights lie just beyond." --Hank Shaw, James Beard Award-winning author of Hunter Angler Gardener Cook "This full color guide makes foraging accessible for beginners and is a reliable source for advanced foragers." --Edible Chicago "Useful for beginners and those searching close to home...Introducing these species to kids would be a fun backyard teaching moment for parents." --Iowa Press Citizen "The Timber Press foraging series offers another set of books with high quality photography. . . . also available as handy Kindles." --American Herb Association Quarterly "A must-have for anyone who likes to forage...a remarkable piece of work, offering beautiful photos and hundreds of tips about when, how and where to harvest edible plants." --Grand Rapids Press "With 115 plants included, Midwest Foraging covers a lot of ground and is a good first choice for a beginning forager in the region covered. For more experienced folks with a larger library this is a valuable companion to include with your other field guides." --Permaculture Podcast "I love this book... A trustworthy reference book to what is safely edible... A great addition to anyones foraging toolkit." --Little House in an Old Town Review Quote "Lisa Rose is exactly the sort of person you want to teach you how to forage for wild food. Her calm, warming voice and extensive plant knowledge make you want to dash out your back door to discover what edible delights lie just beyond." --Hank Shaw, James Beard Award-winning author of Hunter Angler Gardener Cook "This full color guide makes foraging accessible for beginners and is a reliable source for advanced foragers." -- Edible Chicago "Useful for beginners and those searching close to home...Introducing these species to kids would be a fun backyard teaching moment for parents." -- Iowa Press Citizen "The Timber Press foraging series offers another set of books with high quality photography. . . . also available as handy Kindles." -- American Herb Association Quarterly "A must-have for anyone who likes to forage...a remarkable piece of work, offering beautiful photos and hundreds of tips about when, how and where to harvest edible plants." -- Grand Rapids Press "With 115 plants included, Midwest Foraging covers a lot of ground and is a good first choice for a beginning forager in the region covered. For more experienced folks with a larger library this is a valuable companion to include with your other field guides." -- Permaculture Podcast "I love this book... A trustworthy reference book to what is safely edible... A great addition to anyones foraging toolkit." -- Little House in an Old Town Excerpt from Book Preface: Cultivating a Sense of Place As a child, I lived only minutes from Lake Michigan. The open fields, woods, sandy dunes, and Big Lake were my playground. I remember growing up in my mothers garden: Tall stalks of corn, overgrown zucchini bushes, large heads of cabbages--all part of the bounty grown for our dinner table. My mother canned and made preserves from our seasonal garden, but we also had wild foods as part of our harvests. The wild grapes lining the backyard fence were turned into jellies and canned juice. Morel mushrooms in the spring were added to eggs and pasta. Apples were picked off the wild apple trees near our elementary school. Wild foods were a part of my childhood. I also remember the evening I made my first summer fruit pie. It was a hot and sweaty June summer evening in my college apartment in Grand Haven, Michigan. I made a delicious (but somewhat runny) mulberry pie, with berries I gathered alone on a sandy trail beachside. While the pie may not have been perfect, that memory of picking the berries on the trail and baking the mulberry pie in my hot kitchen remains vivid in my mind. My culinary abilities grew, and I found myself looking to the trees, hedges, and weeds for my teas and meals at my table. Dandelions, violets, nettles, burdock, and even garlic mustard became commonplace in my recipes, and today wild foods are part of my everyday kitchen life. As a forager, I have learned to sense and anticipate the subtle changes in the seasons, almost like a sixth sense. On sunny February days that are cold but bright, I can actually hear the sap in the maple trees begin to run. April rainstorms and warmer weather means its time to go mushroom hunting. On muggy days in June with frequent pop-up thundershowers, I always check on the roses and elderflowers--one round of summer thunderstorms could decimate the delicate blooms that I so love to dry for tea. And nuts falling in the green gulch next to my kitchen window? I try to harvest those walnuts before the squirrels do. I feel empowered with this ability to "read" the wild world around me. I will always have the ability to find food and these skills connect me to the natural world in a deep way. So many of us are seeking a connection to the land and to each other. Foraging, local foods, and community gardening connect us in a deeper way to the world around us. That feeling of a need for escape into the wild is very real: we desire space and clarity. I believe this is one reason foraging is gaining in popularity. We are also making the connection between healthy soil, healthy foods, and healthy people. The food on our plate has--or should have--roots in the earth. Our industrialized food system is a root-less, industrial production model, leaving us with over-processed, nutrient-less choices at the grocery store. People are starting to invest in healthful, local, and organic whole foods for health insurance. Wild foods are more nutrient dense. They are a source for unprocessed minerals, an alternative to commercial supplements. Wild and foraged foods could be a solution to our food sensitivities. More and more research on bioregional, traditional diets suggest gut-healing powers rest with eating wild foods that grow in your own bioregion. Once you find those sweet harvesting spots to pick fresh nettles in the cool, spring air, you most certainly wont want to return to the eating pallid lettuce and spinach leaves sitting ensconced in plastic on the grocery store shelves. You will find yourself craving the bitter flavors of the wild chicory and will cherish finding the smaller but more flavor-packed wild strawberries you discover in the open fields of early summer. Returning to wild ways is a refreshing shift in our communitys way of life, and it delights me that this movement continues to gain momentum. For health, economy, environment, and justice, its now quite popular for folks to trade in their Kentucky bluegrass lawn for gardens and edible landscaping, including wild weeds like burdock, dandelions, violets, and sorrel. Even if you are a city-dweller, wild foods are everywhere: dandelions in the park, basswood flowers on the trees lining the streets, nettles growing in the rose garden beds. Paying attention to wild plants helps connect you to the land itself. Eating foods from the wild will bind you to a place, its rivers, animals, smells, sights, and sounds. Ingesting bits of the land make the place literally a part of you. You can gather the wild and bring it into your kitchen to prepare meals for friends and family, nourishing our bodies with nutrient-dense foods and our minds as we take time to connect with each other. The end goal of foraging actually isnt gathering delicious wild edibles for a meal to grace your table, although it is certainly a great benefit. By adding wild edibles to the table, we start to value the wildness in our city neighborhoods and make space for the wild in our yards, gardens, play areas, parks, and open spaces. For me, those moments of noticing are among the most satisfying parts of foraging, when we take time to connect to whats around us and gain that feeling of belonging and relationship. My senses are awakened. Outside I feel alive. Wild. My deepest wish is for you to experience this, too, and to fall in love with the wild ones. Details ISBN1604695315 Author Lisa M. Rose Short Title MIDWEST FORAGING Language English ISBN-10 1604695315 ISBN-13 9781604695311 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 581.632 Series Timber Press Field Guide Year 2015 Publication Date 2015-06-24 Imprint Timber Press Subtitle 115 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Burdock to Wild Peach Place of Publication Portland, OR Country of Publication United States Qualifications M US Release Date 2015-06-24 UK Release Date 2015-06-24 Illustrations 237 color photos Pages 318 Publisher Workman Publishing Audience General AU Release Date 2015-06-23 NZ Release Date 2015-06-23 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:94460141;

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