Backyard Foraging

"Backyard Foraging: 65 Familiar Plants You Didn’t Know You Could Eat" by Ellen Zachos There’s food growing everywhere! You’ll be amazed by how many of the plants you see each day are actually nutritious edibles. Ideal for first-time foragers, this book features 70 edible weeds, flowers, mushrooms, and ornamental plants typically found in urban and suburban neighborhoods. Full-color photographs make identification easy, while tips on common plant locations, pesticides, pollution, and dangerous flora make foraging as safe and simple as stepping into your own backyard. Paperback, 240 pages, English, Storey Publishing LLC, 2013