Urban Foraging: Find, Gather, and Cook 50 Wild Plants

Summary

Take a stroll to discover the ingredients for a wild apple tarte tatin. Turn the lilac bush found in a vacant lot into a delicious, delicately flavoured jelly for your morning pastry. Your city is full of wild food, you just need to know where to find it. In this stylish, scrumptious guide to wildcrafting in the city you'll learn how to find, identify, harvest, and cook with 50 common wild plants, such as chickweed, dandelion, echinacea, honeysuckle, red clover, and pine. Urban Foraging, by expert forager Lisa M. Rose, shares all the basics necessary for successful foraging: clear photos that help identification during harvest, tips for ethical and safe gathering, details on culinary uses, and simple recipes will help you make truly fresh, nutritious meals.