The Forager's Harvest
A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants

by Sam Thayer

360 pages • Softcover • Full color photos throughout

This is a wild food book like no other. Drawing upon a lifetime of experience with edible wild plants, the author shares his in-depth knowledge of foraging with the authority, enthusiasm, and humor that have captivated thousands at seminars and workshops across America. You'll gain an intimate understanding of all the plants in this book--where to find them, how to identify them, their seasons of harvest, and their methods of collection and preparation. The Forager's Harvest is the perfect guide for all experience levels.

This guide features:

• More than 200 color photos, showing each edible part of the subject plant in the proper stage for harvest
• Step-by-step tutorials to plant identification
• Photos and text comparing potentially confusing plants
• Thorough discussion of how to gather and use the plants
• A foraging calendar showing harvest times for wild foods
• An illustrated glossary

The Forager's Harvest is a must-have reference for those who wish to learn more about harvesting edible wild plants. Although this is not a cookbook, Sam shares many cooking and preparation tips throughout the book. (If you're interested in recipes for preparing wild plants, check out our book, Abundantly Wild, which contains hundreds of tested recipes using wild plants.)

Here are some reviews of this incredible book:

"A masterful celebration of edible wild plants ... Accurate, careful, and thoughtful ... this book is a 'must' for novice harvesters and experienced foragers alike."
-Nancy Turner, Professor, University of Victoria; author of Food Plants of British Columbia Indians

"I believe that this will become the new standard in wild-foods literature. Sam writes from a position of absolute authority; unlike many other authors, he lives with wild foods on a daily basis, and writes with first-hand knowledge of the subject. The warm writing style, exceptional detail, and thorough coverage make this book an invaluable reference as well as a delightful read."
-Teresa Marrone, wild food eucator and author of Abundantly Wild

Ramps (wild leeks) at the proper stage for harvesting

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Additional outdoors-related cookbooks...

• Abundantly Wild: Collecting and Cooking Wild Edibles in the Upper Midwest
• The Back-Country Kitchen: Camp Cooking for Canoeists, Hikers and Anglers
• The Seasonal Cabin Cookbook

Also see the full-color wild game and fish cooking titles available from Northern Trails Press:

• NEW! Slow Cookers Go Wild! 100+ Recipes for Wild Game
• Preparing Fish & Wild Game
• America's Favorite Wild Game Recipes
• Venison Cookery
• Dressing & Cooking Wild Game
• The Saltwater Cookbook
• A World of Game Cooking (international-style recipes featuring wild game)

All photos copyright Samuel Thayer; may not be reproduced, copied or used in any way.