Eat the Weeds : A Forager's Guide to Identifying and Harvesting 274 Wild Foods / Deane Jordan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jordan, Deane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wild plants, Edible--United States--Identification.

Wild plants, Edible.

Cooking (Wild foods).

Genre:

Field guides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (758 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Adventure Publications, [2023]

Summary:

"Which plants should you eat-and when should you eat them? Let "Green" Deane Jordan guide you with his book Eat the Weeds. Green Deane teaches foraging classes and runs a popular foraging website (also called Eat the Weeds). Now he's sharing his expertise with you. Eat the Weeds presents 195 wild edibles and helps you to find, identify, and harvest them"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

How this Book is Organized

How to Use this Book

The Many Benefits of Foraging

Geographic Range of the Book

Botany

A Common Mistake to Avoid

An Unsettled Science

Basic Plant Anatomy

Plants are Chemical Factories

Leaf Basics

Flower Anatomy

Flower Shape

Flower Clusters

Seeds

Fruit

Roots

Some Examples

Invasive Species and Introduced Ones

Invasive Can Be a Loaded Word

Know Your Local Foraging Laws and Rules

The Most Important Foraging Rule "When in Doubt, Throw It Out"

Deane's Recommended Plants for Novices

Deane's Recommended Survival Foods

Toxic Plants: Hemlock, Pokeweed, and more

Staying Safe

Don't Field-test for Edibility

Safety and Pollution

Notes on Consuming a New-to-You Edible Species

Hard-won Experience

Harvesting Ethics and Etiquette

Plants and Medicine

Green Deane's Notable Nutrients

The Weeds

Acorn

Agave

Alligator weed

Amaranth

American beautyberry

American Black Nightshade

American lotus

Aronia (Black Chokeberry)

Aspen and poplar

Australian pine

Bacopa (water hyssop)

Balloon vine

Barnyard grass

Basswood

Beach Orach

Beech

Begonia

Betony

Birch

Bird pepper

Biscuitroot

Bitter cress

Bitter Lettuce

Blackberry

Black ironwood

Black medic

Black walnut

Bladder wrack

Blolly (Beeftree)

Blueberry

Brookweed

Bulrush

Bunchberry

Burdock

Burnweed

Butternut

Cabbage palm

Candyroot

Canna

Carolina Bristlemallow

Carpetweed

Cattail

Che

Checkerberry

Chickweed

Chicory

Chinese tallow tree

Chinquapin

Chocolate vine

Chufa

Cinnamon and camphor

Citron Melon

Clover

Common reed

Coral bean

Coral vine

Crabgrass.

Cranberry

Creeping cucumber

Crowfoot grass

Currant

Dandelion

Daylily

Deerberry

Dock

Dollarweed

Duck potato

Eastern Gamagrass

Eastern Redbud

Elderberry

Elm

Evening primrose

False dandelion

False Hawk's-Beard

Feijoa (pineapple guava)

Fiddlehead fern

Fir

Firethorn

Fireweed

Flowering rush

Forsythia

Fuchsia

Garlic mustard

Ghost Pipe

Ginkgo

Gladiola

Glasswort

Goji berry

Golden Dead Nettle

Golden rain tree

Goldenrod

Gooseberry

Goosegrass

Gopher apple

Gorse

Gotu Kola

Goutweed

Ground-cherry

Ground ivy

Groundnut

Hairy Cowpea

Hardy orange

Hawthorn

Henbit and dead nettle

Hercules'-club

Hibiscus

Hickory

Highbush cranberry

Honeysuckle

Hornbeam

Horsemint

Horseradish

Horseweed

Huckleberry

Hyacinth

Hydrilla

Jack-in-the-pulpit

Jerusalem artichoke

Jewels of Opar

Juneberry

Juniper

Kelp

Knotweed

Kochia (burning bush)

Kudzu

Labrador tea

Lamb's-quarter (goosefoot)

Lantana

Laver (nori)

Lemon Bacopa

Lemongrass

Litchi Tomato

Loquat

Mahoe and milo

Mangrove

Maple

Marigold

Mayapple

Mayflower

Maypop

Mesquite

Milkweed

Miner's lettuce

Mock (Indian) strawberry

Monkey puzzle tree

Moringa

Morning glory

Mountain ash (rowan)

Mulberry

Nandina

Nasturtium

Natal plum

New Jersey tea

Norfolk Pine

Opuntia and nopal

Oregon grape

Osage orange

Oxalis

Pacific Crab Apple

Pacific Silverweed

Panic grass

Papaya

Paperbark Tea Tree

Paper mulberry

Partridgeberry

Passion fruit

Pawpaw

Pecan

Pellitory

Peppergrass

Perennial Peanut

Perilla (Shiso)

Persea

Persimmon

Pickerel weed

Pine

Pineapple weed

Plantago (plantain)

Pokeweed

Pony Foot.

Portia tree (seaside mahoe)

Prairie turnip

Purslane

Quack grass

Quickweed

Ragweed

Raspberry

Red Spiderling

Reindeer moss

Rose

Russian thistle (tumbleweed)

Saffron plum

Sandspur (sandbur)

Sassafras

Sawgrass

Saw palmetto

Seablite

Sea lettuce

Seaoat

Sea oxeye

Sea purslane

Searocket

Shepherd's purse

Silverhead

Silverthorn

Skunk Vine

Smartweed

Smilax

Soapberry and buffaloberry

Society Garlic

Sorrel

Sourwood

Sow thistle

Spanish Needle

Spiderwort

Spring beauty

Spruce

Spurge nettle and Texas Bullnettle

Star fruit

Stinging nettle and Heartleaf Nettle

Stork's Bill

Strawberry

Sugarberry (hackberry)

Sugarcane

Sumac

Sunflower

Sweetbay

Sweetclover

Sweetgum

Sweet Potato Leaves

Swinecress

Sword fern (Boston fern)

Sycamore

Tape Seagrass

Tea

Tiger Lily

Tindora (ivy gourd)

Trillium

Tropical almond

Tuberous Sweetpea (earthnut pea)

Tuckahoe (arrow arum)

Tulip

Tuliptree (yellow poplar)

Tupelo

Usnea (beard lichen)

Viburnum

Violet

Watercress

Water hyacinth

Wax myrtle

Western Tansymustard

West Indian Chickweed

White Indigo Berry

Wild apple (crab apple)

Wild carrot

Wild cherry

Wild Fennel

Wild fig

Wild garlic, wild onion, and ramps (Wild Alliums)

Wild grape

Wild lettuce

Wild mint

Wild mustard

Wild plum (Chickasaw plum)

Wild pumpkin (Seminole Pumpkin)

Wild radish

Wild rice

Willow

Winged yam

Wisteria

Yaupon Holly

Yellow pond-lily

Yellow thistle

Yucca

Glossary

Recommended Reading

Photo Credits

About the Author

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Jordan, Deane Eat the Weeds

ISBN:

9781647551803

1647551803

OCLC:

1397575002