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Book SynopsisYour Field Guide to Foraging for Wild Edibles: What, Where, and When to Look Foraging for food is an engaging and beneficial pastime that anyone can enjoy. It inspires connections to the land and can help to improve your health. Plus, many target plants for foragers are non-native, so the activity can support—if not improve—biological diversity and ecological well-being. Foraging Southern California introduces you to plentiful and delicious foods, from berries and fruits to roots, seeds, and even tasty aquatic options, like kelp and crayfish. Expert forager Douglas Kent shares his decades of experience in this handy guide that’s perfect for beginners and intermediates. Learn what to look for, as well as when and where to look. Key identification features, written instructions, and full-color photographs help you to comfortably and confidently know that you’re harvesting the right species. A compare section provides information on dangerous look-alikes, helping to ensure your foraging success and personal health. The “Top 10 Edibles” section provides a starting point for beginners, and species throughout the book are organized by harvestable quality, which quickly leads to the relevant information for your own foraging needs. Foraging must be done with knowledge and consideration. Foraging Southern California provides information that can benefit you and the environment. Grab the book, get outside, and enjoy nature’s bounty.
Trade Review"...even if you are not much of an explorer, but take an interest in plant lore generally, you will have a difficult time putting down this book until you have perused every page. It’s a cornucopia of obscure information and unique insights regarding plants that are often familiar, that we thought we understood, but with which we are now—having read about them here—much more intimately acquainted. Moreover, gardeners will derive particular satisfaction, I think, when they learn that many of the weeds they have long regarded as irredeemable enemies turn out to be, as far as edibility is concerned, potential friends." —Joshua Siskin, MediaNews Group, Inc. (Long Beach Press Telegram, OC Register, Pasadena Star News, etc.)
Table of ContentsIntroduction Protecting Yourself Poisonous Plants Top 10 Edibles Greens Berries Fruits Flowers Seeds Roots Along the Shoreline In or Around Fresh Water In and Around the Coast Pier Fishing Protecting Ecological Health Helpful Resources and Bibliography Websites Glossary Index About the Author
