Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie

Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie
Author: Kelly Kindscher
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2024-11-04
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0700637028

The wild plants in this book tell stories of land, people, and food. As renowned botanist Kelly Kindscher guides us through over one hundred edible plants in this beautiful field guide, we find that foraging has always been an important part of prairie life. Before colonization, Native American women were the primary gatherers of wild plants, which were an abundant, sustainable, and delicious feature of Indigenous diets. Colonizers reduced the significance of wild plants in prairie life as they relocated Native peoples and imposed their agrarian culture on the land, but these Indigenous foodways were never truly lost. In the recent past, foraging has become a tremendously popular way for many peoples to connect with the earth, promote sustainability, and revive and honor cultural food traditions. In this beautifully illustrated new edition, Kindscher explores 117 wild plants of the prairie, offering information about habitat, food use, and cultivation. Color photos and maps make this stunning book a useful foraging guide for anyone to take out into the prairie. A must-have for enthusiasts and professionals alike, Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie gives us the great opportunity to engage with the land we live in.

Wild Prairie

Wild Prairie
Author: James
Publisher: Greystone Books
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2012-03-23
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 192681259X

In this large-format book, noted photographer James R. Page explores one of nature’s most beautiful and varied environments. Page traveled from his home in Saskatchewan through the Prairie provinces and south through the United States Prairie to Texas to photograph the splendor of the grasslands through the seasons. Here are summer’s sunlit world of grass stalks and sky; autumn’s early snow swirls; winter’s coyotes sleeping in frosty grass; and spring’s rattling winds and new green growth. The images in Wild Prairie find the essential in these timeless landscapes.

Wild Prairie Roses

Wild Prairie Roses
Author: Lena Nelson Dooley
Publisher: Barbour Books
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2009-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781602604155

Three novels: A Daughter's Quest by lena Nelso Dooley; Tara's Gold by Lisa Harris and Better than Gold by Laurie Alice Eakes.

Garden Wild

Garden Wild
Author: André Baranowski
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2025-03-25
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0789345943

This book is a survey of 12 breathtakingly beautiful gardens by award-winning photographer Andre Baranowski, whose eye for beauty will embolden readers the world over to embrace their inner instincts and create their own garden wild. The new movement in contemporary gardening is about going back to the wilderness, creatively landscaping with native plants to enrich their environments and seamlessly merge with their natural surroundings. Politely rejecting traditional manicured, hedged and pruned gardening aesthetics to invite an alternative kind of beauty: wildly bursting with indigenous plants, old-growth trees, vibrant patches of wildflowers and perennials, succulents, un-pruned bushes and ornamental grasses. New York City's Highline is a famous example and this landscaping approach is becoming increasingly popular for private homeowners. This book surveys twelve such breathtaking gardens captured by award winning photographer Andre Baranowski. The featured gardens range from small private residencies to large properties, by renowned landscapers such as Oehme van Sweden, Fernando Caruncho, Jorge Sanchez, and Piet Oudolf. The texts detail each project's approach and the hurdles presented by its landscape, providing the reader with an array of instructional ideas from an insider's mindset. Guaranteed to be a boundless source of inspiration and treasured by lovers of gardens worldwide.

Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories

Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories
Author: Xhenet Aliu
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0803271964

Just down the highway from Connecticut’s Gold Coast is the state’s rusty underbelly, the wretched, used-up sort of place where you might find Xhenet Aliu’s Domesticated Wild Things: the reluctant mothers, delinquent dads, and not-quite-feral children, yet dreamers all. These are the children of immigrants who found boarded-up brass mills instead of the gilded streets of America; they’re the teenaged girls raised in the fluorescent glow of Greek diners, the middle-aged men with pump trucks and teratomas. These are people who have fled, or who should have. And if they are indeed familiar, it is because Aliu writes what is real, whether we ourselves, her readers, have seen it up close or not. And her stories make sense in a way that matters. A young mother buys into a real-estate investment seminar offered on an infomercial, only to be put back into her place by a bully in foreclosure. A closeted wrestler befriends a latchkey seven-year-old neighbor who harbors secrets of her own. A YMCA counselor tries to reclaim shoes stolen by a troubled young camper. What they share is a biting humor, an eye for the absurd, and fumbling attempts at human connection, all rendered irresistible—and as moving as they are amusing—by a writer whose work is at once edgy and endearing and prize winning for reasons any reader can appreciate.

Wild Prairie Sky

Wild Prairie Sky
Author: Cheri Michaels
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1985
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780671551544

Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie

Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie
Author: Kelly Kindscher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1992
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

Kindscher documents the medicinal use of 203 native prairie plants by the Plains Indians. He also adds information on recent pharmacological findings to further illuminate the medicinal nature of these plants. He uses Indian, common, and scientific names and describes Anglo folk uses, medicinal uses, scientific research, and cultivation.

Wild Idea

Wild Idea
Author: Dan O'Brien
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0803250967

For more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan O’Brien’s home. Working as a writer and an endangered-species biologist, he became convinced that returning grass-fed, free-roaming buffalo to the grasslands of the northern plains would return natural balance to the region and reestablish the undulating prairie lost through poor land management and overzealous farming. In 1998 he bought his first buffalo and began the task of converting a little cattle ranch into an ethically run buffalo ranch. Wild Idea is a book about how good food choices can influence federal policies and the integrity of our food system, and about the dignity and strength of a legendary American animal. It is also a book about people: the daughter coming to womanhood in a hard landscape, the friend and ranch hand who suffers great tragedy, the venture capitalist who sees hope and opportunity in a struggling buffalo business, and the husband and wife behind the ranch who struggle daily, wondering if what they are doing will ever be enough to make a difference. At its center, Wild Idea is about a family and the people and animals that surround them—all trying to build a healthy life in a big, beautiful, and sometimes dangerous land.

Wild Ones

Wild Ones
Author: Jon Mooallem
Publisher: Penguin Books
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2014-05-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0143125370

"Wild Ones is a tour through our environmental moment and the eccentric cultural history of people and wild animals in America that inflects it. With propulsive curiosity and searing wit, and without that easy moralizing and nature worship of environmental journalism's older guard, [Jon] Mooallem merges reportage, science, and history into a humane and endearing meditation on what it means to live in, and bring life into, a broken world."--Back cover.

North Dakota Real Estate Open House Guest Book

North Dakota Real Estate Open House Guest Book
Author: Lisa Marie Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN: 9781730503405

The Western Meadowlark became North Dakota's State Bird in 1947. The friendly bird is a resident not only in North Dakota, but throughout the north western United States. His friendly tune is a welcome sound across North Dakota's landscape. The Western Meadowlark is just one of the many reasons why residents love living in gorgeous North Dakota! A welcoming stylish guest book creates the opportunity to greet and engage with every guest. When given the choice most home owners and Real Estate Professionals prefer to know who has attended the open house. Each book contains spaces for guests' names, phone numbers, email addresses and Real Estate Professional notes. When the homeowners ask, "Was the open house a success? How many people came through?" you can pull out this professional guest book and show them! Guest Book Girl recommends dedicating a separate book for each of your listings and to always have a few on hand for future open house events. Thank you for choosing a Guest Book Girl book for your Op