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Foraging for Edible Wild Plants - How to Identify, Cook and Enjoy Them (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Foraging for Edible Wild Plants - How to Identify, Cook and Enjoy Them (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Loot Price R425
Discovery Miles 4 250
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Foraging for Edible Wild Plants is a practical and attractive guide
to the many edible varieties of wild plant that grow all around us.
It will appeal to gardeners, botanists, cooks and foragers, and to
anyone who wants to control invasive plants and weeds in
eco-friendly ways. Wild plants have many virtues. They are:
Valuable for wildlife and beneficial insects. Good for the soil -
locking in nutrients Helpful in the accumulation of trace elements
in soil Hosts for essential mycorrhizal fungi underground
Interesting and unusual ingredients in cooking Foraging for Edible
Wild Plants provides full details of over 50 edible species, with:
Illustrated notes on appearance and habitat Valuable nutritional
information advice on how to cook them numerous recipe suggestions
for jams, cordials, pesto, salads and soups fascinating historical
facts tips for non-culinary uses such as dyes from nettles and soap
from soapwort advice on controlling invasive species such as
knotweed (eat them!) identifying wild plants that are harmful if
eaten attractive colour photographs throughout. Foraging for Edible
Wild Plants covers both common plants, such as nettle, dandelion,
chickweed and ground elder, and less common ones, such as brooklime
and wintercress. The author is a qualified dietician and
horticulturalist, who puts her troublesome weeds to good use. Put
Foraging for Edible Wild Plants on the bookshelf to do the same and
welcome some new, plentiful edibles into the kitchen.
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