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Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places shows readers how to find and prepare more than five hundred different plants for nutrition and better health, including such common plants as mullein (a tea made from the leaves and flowers suppresses a cough), stinging nettle (steam the leaves and you have a tasty dish rich in iron), cattail (cooked stalks taste similar to corn and are rich in protein), and wild apricots (an infusion made with the leaves is good for stomach aches and disgestive disorders).

More than 260 detailed line drawings help readers identify a wide range of plants -- many of which are suited for cooking by following the more than thirty recipes included in this book. There are literally hundreds of plants readily available underfoot waiting to be harvested and used either as food or as a potential therapeutic. This book is both a field guide to nature's bounty and a source of intriguing information about the plants that surround us.

About the Author
"Wildman" Steve Brill's nature tours of New York City's Central Park are widely attended in the spring and throughout the summer. He is an educator, broadcaster, and naturalist based in New York City.

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There are hundreds of fascinating, delicious wild vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, and herbs growing in our neighborhoods, backyards, parks, and forests that we overlook and disregard. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sow thistle flowers, groundnut flowers, poison ivy flowers, foxtail grass seeds, wild onion seeds, inconspicuous female flowers, groundnut roots, cow parsnip roots, groundnut tubers, trail nibble, evening primrose roots, parsnip flowers, groundnut pods, commercial carrots, sumac flowers, milkweed shoots, pokeweed shoots, edible relatives, commercial bay, plantain flowers, creeping wintergreen, wintergreen berries, olive flowers, edible kelp, umbrellalike clusters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, United States, Central Park, New England, Great Lakes, American Indians, Native Americans, New York City, Euell Gibbons, Medicinal Plants Amaranth, New Jersey, Pacific Northwest, Medicinal Plants Apples, Central America, Deep South, Great Plains, Ice Age, Various Indian New!
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