Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants

By Steve Brill, Evelyn Dean,

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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. It includes information on common plants such as mullein (a tea made from the leaves and flowers suppresses…

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1 author picked Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Steve’s funky sense of humor and obvious love for the wild foods he describes make this book a classic. It is especially useful for urban foragers in the Northeast. Anyone who has ever been on one of Steve’s foraging tours will recognize the playful way he delivers essential botanical information. And that playfulness makes the information memorable.

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