The Joy of Foraging

by Gary Lincoff

Discover the edible riches your backyard, local parks, woods, and even roadside! In The Joy of Foraging, Gary Lincoff shows you how to find fiddlehead ferns, rose hips, beach plums, bee balm, and more, whether you are foraging in the urban jungle or the wild, wild woods. You will also learn about fellow foragers-experts, folk healers, hobbyists, or novices like you-who collect wild things and are learning new things to do with them every day. Wherever you live-any season, any climate-you'll find essential tips on where to look for native plants, and how to know without a doubt the difference between edibles and toxic look-alikes. There are even ideas and recipes for preparing and preserving the wild harvest yearround. Let Gary take you on the ultimate tour of our edible wild kingdom!

• ISBN13: 9780785835189
• Publish Date: 1 June 2017 (first published 1 July 2012)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 5 March 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Crestline Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 192
• Language: English

Reviews

[nannah]

I loved this guidebook! Fantastic information packed into every single space it had.

I’ve recently gotten into foraging after reading the amazing The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen, but until now I’ve just been reading about plants I’ve actually seen and already identified in my area. The Joy of Foraging is the first book I’ve picked up, and I don’t think I could’ve found a better one.

It’s broad, but it also has specific sections: how to forage (and how to be ethical about it); finding edible wild plants in the kitchen, in the marketplace, and in the wild; the edible wild plants growing at your feet; wild plant identification (the biggest section); recipes.

What I loved most was the inclusion of which culture (if any) uses the plant the most and for what, special precautions when it comes to eating certain plants, and if you need to be careful eating too much of one plant or one part of a plant. I do also wish there were more pictures, but every space on the page was being used, so it’s hard to really fault it for that.

I’m definitely going to reference this book often.