The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants | 
 enlarge | Author: Samuel Thayer
Publisher: Forager's Harvest Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 3387
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0976626608
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.303
EAN: 9780976626602
ASIN: 0976626608
Publication Date: May 15, 2006
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Product Description
A practical guide to all aspects of edible wild plants: finding and identifying them, their seasons of harvest, and their methods of collection and preparation. Each plant is discussed in great detail and accompanied by excellent color photographs. Includes an index, illustrated glossary, bibliography, and harvest calendar. The perfect guide for all experience levels.
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 Good Book July 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While this book doesn't cover a huge variety of wild edidbles the text and pictures on the ones it does cover are very useful. It is obvious that the author has actually collected the plants he is writting about. It is great that he offers new information on many of the plants not just information copied from someone else. Lets hope he writes another book.
Best Book on Foraging - Mary R July 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The information in this book is more complete and concise than any book I have seen. Thayer limits the number of plants covered so that we may become completely familiar with the many characteristics that differentiate each species.
Interested in foraging since I was a child, I was certain of only a few wild edibles that my dad taught me. I read Gibbon's, "Stalking the Wild Asparagus" years ago but was unable to identify plants with certainty (which is fairly important to me if I'm planning on eating it).
Reading Thayer's book only weeks ago I've found more than a dozen delicious goodies right around my house and felt 100% confident of what I had found. (You really have to try milkweed! Yum! Who'd 'a thunk it?). Tips for harvesting, preparing and cooking add to the wealth of information. I only wish I'd have purchased the book earlier in the spring as blossoming was pretty much over in my area, eliminating one identifying characteristic. But there's always next year.
I hope his next book is as good.
 Wishing for More May 23, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Forager's Harvest is a beautiful book that delivers on the whole. While I would love to see a series of photos that illustrate the plant from sprout through death, that would be asking a lot, and I could not hope for anyone to provide that. As it is, compared to many such books which feature only line drawings and confusing photos, this is a very good book. He does not try to blow air up anyone's skirt, telling us that this or that plant will save the world, or even provide the perfect entree. It does, instead, try to provide a balanced clear-eyed portrait of the edible plants the author is familiar with and makes no bones about his own peccadilloes.
For those of us who would like to see more localized guides which deal with specific biomes, those books will have to wait. In the on-coming post-oil world, these identification skills will separate the living from the dead. I continue to search for the most biome specific books hoping that someone with this knowledge will share it. Perhaps they realize that the last thing the wild needs is any more foragers to strip the ground clean.
For the photos alone, I would recommend this. If you are expecting the super-detailed information needed to be expert, this book cannot be it. No book could be. The indigenous populations, who knew this information, we killed off either literally or culturally, and that info is likely not coming back except through trial and error much as it accumulated pre-agriculture.
So, ultimately, buy it. Just don't expect too much, and you will not be disappointed.
Limited but in depth on what it covers May 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book inspired me to try eating the milkweed that is growing all over my back yard. Following the sniff-touch to tongue - taste - chew - swallow - wait 5 hrs sequence, we determined ours was edible. We have so far cooked up several plates of milkweed stems. They taste like asparagus but milder.
The book goes into some level of depth with the plants it covers, enough to give you some level of confidence. For a more comprehensive book, see the Peterson Guide.
Greatest Forager Book Ever April 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have bought many books on foraging and this is the best one yet. I know it doesn't cover everything, but it covers the easy ones and in great detail. You'll be able to harvest all edible parts of the plant and cook or eat fresh and enjoy them. After all my foraging reading, this is the book you want especially if your like me and want to learn it all today.
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