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 NATURE'S GARDEN - EDIBLE WILD PLANTS
Item#: 4534 Format: Paperback
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Nature’s Garden follows the same award-winning format of Samuel Thayer’s 
first book, with in-depth chapters covering 41 new wild edibles. In this 
volume you will find the most authoritative accounts of several important 
food plants, such as hackberry and American lotus, available anywhere. You 
will find mouth-watering photography of cranberries, blueberries, 
huckleberries, strawberries, wild plums, and more. You’ll hear of new methods 
for using dandelions. You’ll finally be able to make sense of the tricky wild 
lettuce / sow thistle group. You’ll discover that wild carrot and poison 
hemlock can be reliably told apart, thanks to a detailed chart accompanied by 
19 photographs. You’ll read about vegetables with a rich tradition of use 
around the world that are largely ignored in the wild food literature, such 
as cow parsnip, patience dock, and honewort. You can read more exciting 
myth-busting about poisonous plant fables and the maligned black nightshade, 
plus anecdotes about purple children and the hazards of eating cacti. Yet 
perhaps the best part of all is the book within a book about acorns: 51 pages 
of the details that turn these nuts into food.

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On 6/3/2010 at 6:04 AM Emery Mitchamore wrote:

>Around here, there are two trees that get the Paloverde moniker (both are
>"green sticks"): Parkinsonia aculeata and Cercidium macrum.  Apparently,
>both can be used as described.  Mesquite and Honey Locust, too.  It's a
>shame, considering their other desirable qualities, but most of the other
>leguminous trees are not considered edible.  I'd like to hear more about
>food-bearing trees.
>
>E. E. "Mitch"  Mitchamore
>www.hillcountrynatives.net
>
>
>
>On Jun 2, 2010, at 7:01 PM, anna Lorrai wrote:
>
>> I learned a year ago that palo verde seed from the trees is edible.
>While green they taste like green peas.  When they are dried I put them in
>the coffee grinder and make flour.  They make a very tasty pancake that is
>much like buckwheat.  The seeds are said to be high in protein.  I love
>the tree, it's strong green trunks, it's beautiful yellow flowers and the
>leaves are like pine needles creating a nice mulch.  Anna
>>
>> --- On Mon, 5/31/10, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
>>
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