How to Identify Wild Plants
You can collect your own wild plants and herbs to either eat or use for medicine. But this is an art that needs to be learned carefully. Mistakes can get you really sick. Understanding how to identify the plants correctly is the first step to ... [... more]
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Book Review - Discovering Wild Plants - Alaska
Discovering Wild Plants: Alaska, Western Canada and the Northwest Janice Schoefield, illus. by Richard W. Tyler. Seattle, WA: Alaska Northwest Books. 1989. 354 pp. Alaska's plant life can be overwhelming. From the towering Sitka spruce in ... [... more]
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Books on Native Plants - Landscaping
With native plants becoming so popular, here are some books that will help you identify and appreciate their unique beauty. Quarry Books/Indiana University Press has published a wonderful series called Wild Plants in Flower. "Wild Plants in ... [... more]
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The Wild Vegetarian Cookbook by "Wildman" Steve Brill
If you are interested in foraging and natural foods you will enjoy this informative video. "Wildman" Steve Brill, forager and environmental educator, shares his expansive knowledge of wild plants, nuts and berries with us, explaining the ... [... more]
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Poisonous Plants: Prunus pensylvanica
EDIBLE PARTS: Fruits are used for jelly or syrup. Boil down in small amount of water, strain, and add sugar to taste. SOURCE: Angier, B. 1974. Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants. Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, Pa, 255 pp. Pin cherry, fire ... [... more]
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Figure 1: Leafcutter bee (and crab spider) visiting flower.
Leafcutter bees are important native insects of the western United States that use cut leaf fragments to construct their nest cells. They often are essential pollinators of wild plants and some leafcutter bees are even semi-domesticated to help ... [... more]
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Edible Wild Plants: A North American Field Guide
 A 'must' for people interested in edible wild plants: My only regret about this book is that it isn't longer! The plants are organized by season, and every plant has a small map to show what regions it grows in. There is a very nice, good sized picture [... more]
$17.95
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How to Grow a Medicinal Herb Garden
Long before the existence of little blue pills, yellow capsules or creams in a tube, herbs were medicines used in the form of tinctures, teas, salves and poultices. The Native American shamans gathered wild plants for their treatments while the ... [... more]
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Sunflowers
Sunflowers, Unauthorized Biography--readable: This was great for a nonfiction book. Great narrative with interesting history of the favored weed. Author: Joe Pappalardo Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 583.99 EAN: 9781585679911 ISBN: 1585679917 [... more]
$22.95
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Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally
good introduction to plant root growth: Roots Demystified: Change Your Gardening Habits to Help Roots Thrive, by Robert Kourik. A good introductory book to the growth of tree, shrub, and plant roots. Has some material on other things that grow in the [... more]
$25.00
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Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs
The Best of the Bunch: Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs is the best of the bunch. It gives a bounty of information on each of the many herbs listed: origin, uses, cultivation, lore, and much more. The illustrations, both drawings and color [... more]
$26.95
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A Dyer's Garden: From Plant to Pot: Growing Dyes for ...
Great for re-enactors: I particularly recommend this book as a visual source for historical re-enactors. Too often there are descriptions of what dye-plants were used to color garments, but, no examples of what those colors would look like. This book [... more]
$12.95
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