Wild Edibles Volume ONE-three
& Wild Medicinals
Wild edible and medicinal plants: Chosen for ease of identification, taste, nutritional value, accessibility, and efficacy.
Plant identification: Identify parts of each plant: leaf margins, arrangement, and root structure. Includes ruler.
Rule and tools: Tips for the modern forager on assembling a foraging kit.
Seasonal harvest times: Easy to follow chart identifies what and when to harvest.
Herbal preparations: How to create your own herbal remedies.
Herbal actions: Understanding healing properties of common wild plants.
Trail remedies: Using wild plants for common outdoor emergencies.
Preserving the harvest: Reap the benefits of your labors for months to come.
Our Pocket Field Guides are a must for all outdoor enthusiasts, preppers, and wild food enthusiasts. Learning wild plants can be a daunting task: heavy lengthy field guides, unclear photos, and regurgitated dry information make the experience difficult at best. Bushlore Press Pocket Field Guides are the culmination of over 35 years of foraging and feeding by ancestral skills instructor Zak Baker. Our guides reflect his experience through useful information and insights not found in any other plant identification resource. Each card features hi-resolution full-color images and information on locating, identifying, using, and preparing common wild plants for both food and medicine:
Volume One features:
Amaranth, Burdock, Cattail, Clover, Curly Dock, Dandelion, Lambsquarter, Oak, Pine, Plantain, Purslane, Stinging Nettle, and Wild Rose
Volume Two features:
Birch, Chickweed, Chicory, Chokecherry, Grass, Mallow, Mint, Prickly Pear, Raspberry, Sunflower, Thistle, Watercress, Wild Mustard
Volume Three features:
Blackberry, Currant, Elder, Milkweed, Miners Lettuce, Ostrich Fern, Sheep Sorrel, Shepherd’s Purse, Spruce, Wild Lettuce, Wild Violet, Wood Sorrel, Yucca
Wild Medicinals features:
Charcoal, Cottonwood, Dandelion, Echinacea, Elder, Great Burdock, Honey, Mint, Mullein, Nettle, Pine, Plantain, Prickly Pear, Shepherd’s Purse, Wild Rose, Willow, Yarrow
All our featured wild plants can be found growing in every region in North America, and most worldwide in backyards, wooded lots, or wilderness areas. The guides include plant identification cards, rules, and tools for the modern forager, seasonal harvest times, and instructions on preserving and preparing your harvest for food or medicine. In addition, the guide includes tips, tricks, and recipes to teach you how to prepare these wild plants from root to seed in soups, salads, green drinks, ash cakes, teas, pickles, tinctures, and a lot more. Whether you are a novice or expert, home-based or in the backcountry, our guides empower individuals with the knowledge to forage from the land, with respect and gratitude, minimal cost and effort.
Bushlore Pocket Field Guides™ makes learning about wild plants easy and accessible. It is the only tool for foraging to focus on plants found all over the world. Each plant is easily identifiable, nutritious, and has multiple uses. More than just a field guide, it is a nudge to increase our humanity while restoring our relationship with both the land and the source of our foods.
Bushlore Pocket Field Guides™ is the perfect reference tool to begin learning and reconnecting with the natural world. Our guides are lightweight, waterproof, and pocket-sized, ideal for field use by novice and experts alike. Each compact set of 3" x 5" cards is bound by a carabiner or wire link allowing you to mix and match with other Pocket Field Guides creating a custom set. Carry attached to a pack of straps or lanyards for easy access. Made in the USA. Illustration by Ted Slampyak.