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Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (And Not So Wild) Places Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (And Not So Wild) Places
by Steve Brill, Evelyn Dean
Paperback (1994)
This is a MUST BUY, Best of its kind book!    Part of the reason for my enthusiasm for this book is that in my experience, this is the only book of it’s kind that can easily be read from cover to cover with good comprehension and retention of the contents.   I believe that the reason this is so is due to the book’s superb integration and afore mentioned organization.   The author, Steve Brill, throughout includes much folk wisdom and a great deal of scientific fact and many humorous anecdotes.   This is all done with an extreme humanity, lack of pretentiousness or dogmatism.   Mr. Brill frequently describes the process by which he learned things and many of the false paths he took prior to gaining enlightenment.   The author is one of the very very few people secure enough not to succumb to the temptation to remove the scaffolding he used to aid himself in obtaining his knowledge.  An amazon reader
Edible Wild Plants and Useful Herbs The Basic Essentials of
Edible Wild Plants and Useful Herbs
by Jim Meuninck, Peggy Duke
Paperback (1988)
Identify, collect and eat over 100 of the most nutritious plants in North America.   Find 35 wild plants growing in your back yard. Discover ancient pharmaceutical uses for common herbs.   An appendix catalogs and indexes many poisonous and poisonous look-a-likes.   Edible Wild Plants also provides categorization by environment rather than by alphabet.    Examples are rivers, lakes, ponds and swamps, woodlands, yards, and meadows, and others.
Edible Wild Plants: A North American Field Guide Edible Wild Plants: A North American Field Guide
by Thomas S. Elias, Peter A. Dykeman
Paperback (1990)
Excellent, one of the best wild food guides.  Unlike many such guides, most of the pictures are very good.   Many will be surprised what edible food is growing out of their yard or in the woods and fields next door.  Great for anyone's survival book collection.
A reader from USA, 1999
Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants Tom Brown's Guide to
Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants
by Tom Brown
Paperback (1995)
Tom Brown's is different.  This one, in particular, is kind of like reading the earliest Tom Robbins novels (Another Roadside attraction, etc.).   Beyond nostalgia, this is a wonderful book - a little too large and poorly illustrated to carry CARELESSLY into the woods - yet very useful and unique.   Tom gives us a pre-New Age understanding of his plant friends - the ones we might most need or want to know - while spinning sentimental and spiritual threads that may help bind us to our use of this new knowledge.   Collect the Peterson's and indepth holistic herbals, but don't pass up on Tom's.
A reader from United States of America, 1998

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