Foraging

Foraging
Author: Paul Chambers
Publisher: Grub Street Publishers
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2011-06-13
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1844689832

“A useful and practical field guide” to finding delicious, indigenous edibles—full of color photos and including a forager’s calendar (The Countryman). Long before there were convenient supermarkets, foraging for edible plants was as essential to survival as hunting and farming. For today’s forager, it’s a fun and practically free way to eat fresh and get to know your local environment. In Foraging, naturalist author Paul Chambers gives you the knowledge and knowhow you need to start going on your own foraging adventures. Focused on the British Isles, this comprehensive guide includes lists of indigenous edible plants, arranged alphabetically and by region. A full range of environments are covered, from the fields and forests of the countryside to suburban gardens, city streets, and even the coast. Chambers offers practical tips for identifying, collecting, preparing, and preserving forageables, as well each plants’ historical, cultural, and medicinal meanings and uses. Packed with helpful illustrations and trivia, this volume is the result of years of experience and a passion for naturalism, and shares more than one hundred plants suitable for eating.

Secret Passions, Secret Remedies

Secret Passions, Secret Remedies
Author: Terry M. Parssinen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1983
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780719009525

England / Drogen (1820-1930).

The Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collections

The Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collections
Author: Holden Arboretum
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 1072
Release: 1992
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780873384339

More than 970 rare books, dating from 1479 to 1830 and covering such categories as gardening, herbals, botanical books and landscape architecture are catalogued in this bibliography.

Backyard Medicine For All

Backyard Medicine For All
Author: Julie Bruton-Seal
Publisher: Skyhorse
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1510725954

There is a wealth of plants growing abundantly all over roadsides, cities, and in your own backyard; this coincides perfectly with alternative medicine and natural healing reaching into every facet of our lives. These plants have numerous medicinal uses that people have largely forgotten. Once valued and widely used, they’ve fallen out of fashion over time as they were bypassed by commercial medicine. A companion to the team’s previous book, Backyard Medicine for All will focus largely on medicinal plants that grow by roads or paths in the countryside or in the city. These nearby but often overlooked ecosystems are significant wild plant communities! This new book is packed with practical information on how to use fifty forgotten plants to cure all sorts of common ailments. Each chapter has an introductory section that puts the plant(s) into historical and botanical context, and its forgotten or traditional medicinal uses, as well as featuring current medicinal applications. Make your own herbal medicines to cure complaints from hayfever to headaches to insomnia. Clear, easy instructions and stunning photographs will guide you to leave the armchair and go out to utilize backyard medicine yourself!