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Forage in Summer: A Foraging Guide to the Past and Present Uses of Wild Plants for Food and Medicine
Forage in Summer A Foraging Guide to the Past and Present Uses of Wild Plants for Food and Medicine Author:Robin Harford Forage in Summer is a celebration of the top fifteen edible and medicinal wild plants found in June, July and August. It’s a comprehensive exploration into their past and present uses as food and medicine, including their forgotten folklore. — An invaluable addition to any forager, herbalist, gardener, horticulturist or naturalist&rs... more »quo;s library, providing plant-lovers with a much-needed resource to understanding nature’s most useful wild plants.
Discover the traditional and contemporary food and medicine uses of wild plants.
Learn their folklore and stories.
Includes delicious recipes.
Each plant is beautifully illustrated with a black and white Victorian botanical print.
Know which part of the plant to use.
When the best time to harvest is.
Nutritional profiles for each plant are covered.
Safety notes – what you need to know if pregnant or on medication.
Plants have stories, stories that reconnect us to the Land and the rest of Nature.
As our society evermore disconnects, there is a revivalist movement flourishing like a rhizome. This ancient path of the forager reconnects us to the vital, to wildness, to creation, to what is in effect the very pulse of life itself.
One of the most direct ways to experience this is to consume this wildness. Take it into our bodies, where like a sleeper agent, it lies dormant until you have eaten enough to change the structure of your blood, thereby changing your brain and how you relate to the non-human world.
For it is this simple act. The act of taking wild food and medicine into our body, that in time becomes so transformative.
Forage in Summer is not a harking back to some naive, romantic vision of how we might once have lived. Instead, these plants’ stories are a way to help you sense into the future and understand our ecological function (as a species) within the world.« less