num_pages: 360
description: Foraging the Mountain Gourmet Edible Plants Mushrooms and MeatThere's food in them thar hills! There is also food in the valleys meadows swamps and all around town too... maybe even in your own backyard. Foraging the Mountain West is a guide to harvesting and celebrating nature's abundance. Reach out and explore the world with your taste buds. Discover new delights you will never find at the store. Connect with nature on a deeper level by meeting greeting and eating the plants fungi and creatures that share the neighborhood. Become a little more self-sufficient and a lot more aware.Foraging the Mountain West is a hands-on manual for identifying harvesting and preparing real food. It is written for the backpacker who would rather bring more knowledge and fewer provisions into the wilderness. It is intended for the happy homemaker who wants to eat well and spend less. It is ideal for the creative chef who wants to explore new ingredients and impress diners with novel dishes.The authors brought together years of experience and fun to show you the prospective forager what when where why and how to gather wild and feral plants mushrooms and neglected wayside crops. In addition this is a guide for successful fishing without a pole hunting without weapons and even shopping without money. This book will help you fill your freezer and satiate your appetite.Foraging the Mountain West will help you dream in winter cleanse in spring forage in summer and gorge in fall. The book includes hundreds of vivid color photos detailing every essential aspect of foraging. This guide is not meant to sit on your coffee table. It is meant to start a revolution!
language: English
title: Foraging the Mountain West: Gourmet Edible Plants, Mushrooms, and Meat
publisher: Hops Press