Wild Harvest: Edible Plants of the Pacific Northwest [Paperback]

Terry Domico (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1982

For everyone from backpackers to backyard harvesters, Wild Harvest is a field guide to wild edibles with their seasons and cooking suggestions.

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Terry Domico

Product Details

• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: Big Country Books (June 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 088839022X
• ISBN-13: 978-0888390226
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #427,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #3 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Biological Sciences > Botany
  • #12 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Science > Biological Sciences > Plants > General

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Could be a tad bit better, but worth buying, February 11, 2006

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Robert "whidbeyfisher" (Puget Sound, Wa, USA) - See all my reviews

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An edible plants book for the Pacific Northwest! I was so very eager to get my hands on it - and I'm glad I did. There are quite a few plants that have been left out, mostly those plants which exist on the east side of the Cascades, but I think the author also leaves out plants that could be confused with a poisonous look-a-like.

Even so, there were quite a few plants that I didn't know about. For example, there's "Lamb's Quarter" which I've been pulling out of my little garden for years. I didn't know it before I bought this book, but the author says it's good eatin' and I'll be trying it the next time I see it (it's winter now).

The plants are listed in order of it's annual appearance - so it starts with the plants you meet in the late winter with nettles and tree sap and then works on to the end in the fall talking about berries. Each plant covered has a colored photograph along with a black and white hand drawn picture. I know some people who like one or the other, but this book provides both. Very Nice.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wild Harvest - good, but incomplete, March 7, 1997

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This review is from: Wild Harvest: Edible Plants of the Pacific Northwest (Paperback)

Have used this book for over 15 years. It's strengths are its detailed descriptions of ebible plants and the excellent color photos shown. Its weakness lies in its failure to mention and show numerous common edibles that appear in other similar texts. All in all, though, a good reference handbook

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource if you live in the pacific northwest., May 22, 2010

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What I love about this small (under 100 pages) book is the wealth of information in so little space. You get nice color pictures of wild edible plants in the pacific northwest, a brief description of how they were used, and you get it all at a modest price. The book is not as thorough as other wild food manuels, and the author does disagree with mainstream authors on some plants (he states you can eat common butter cup if cleaned properly while other authors just say stay away). What I don't like about it is that it doesn't list poisonous look alikes, and at times your left wanting more information. All that aside if your looking to pick up wild edibles in the pacific northwest you should have at least three GOOD field guides for proper identification. If you live in the pacific northwest this should be one of them. Well done.