Urban Foraging: Find, Gather, and Cook 50 Wild Plants -- Lisa M. Rose, Hardcover

Your city is full of wild food, you just need to know where to find it.

Take a stroll to discover the ingredients for a wild apple tarte tatin. Turn the lilac bush found in a vacant lot into a delicious, delicately flavored jelly for your morning pastry. Discover a new way to feast on fresh food. Urban Foraging is a stylish, scrumptious guide to wildcrafting in the city. You'll learn how to find, identify, harvest, and cook with 50 common wild plants, such as chickweed, dandelion, echinacea, honeysuckle, red clover, and pine. Expert forager Lisa M. Rose shares all the basics necessary for a successful harvest: clear photos that aid identification, tips for ethical and safe gathering, details on culinary uses, and simple recipes will help you make truly fresh, nutritious meals.


Author: Lisa M. Rose
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Published: 10/11/2022
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.06w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781643260839

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/04/2022
Library Journal 10/01/2022 pg. 64

About the Author
Lisa M. Rose is an herbalist and forager with a background in anthropology and a professional focus on community health. Her interest in ethnobotany and herbal medicine has taken her to study plants, people, health, and their connection to place internationally. Rose leads foraging plant walks and teaches classes on edible and medicinal wild plants. She forages for her own family, herbal apothecary, and community herbalism practice.