Edible Wild Plants of Eastern Canada

If you've got a hankering for Wild Blueberry Tea, Fiddlehead Sauté or Apple & Rose Petal Pie, this is the book for you. Published in 2008, Marilyn Walker's "Wild Plants of Eastern Canada" contains a whole section on 'wild' recipes for foragers.

This is an excellent reference book for anyone who wants to identify, harvest and prepare wild plants for culinary and medicinal uses. Walker draws on historical and Aboriginal sources for over 60 wild plants found right here in Nova Scotia.

Here's the publisher's blurb:

"A comprehensive guide to the most common native plants of northeastern North America, including their culinary, medicinal, folk, and ecological uses. Explores the cultural history of wild plant use among Aboriginal - Mi'kmaq, Maliseet and Passamaquoddy - and non-Aboriginal - Black, Acadian, and Celtic - peoples. Contains easy-to-read profiles of sixty (60) plant species, each identified with an actual size leaf-print specimen and a realistic reproduction for i.d. (does not include cultivated plants, seaweeds, or trees). Includes nearly 60 contemporary recipes. A valuable reference to the plants of Eastern Canada and their many culinary, medicinal and ecological uses.

My one complaint, as with most such reference books is that the photos and illustrations are all in black and white (which aren't the colours - non-colours I guess - one normally looks for in the woods).

To Walker's credit, she has used the ancient technique of "leaf printing" for many of the illustrations, so they are "actual-size".

As lovely as the leaf prints are, I'd like to find a reference guide that has, not only colored photos or sketches, but seasonal pics as well (i.e. flowers, berries, roots, winter appearance, etc).

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Wild Plants of Eastern Canada

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