With new color photographs and updated information, this authoritative guidebook introduces adventurers and harvesters to more than seventy of Alaska's most common wild edible plants.
Alaska's Wild Plants is the perfect guide to tuck in your backpack as you explore Alaska's lands. Filled with informative habitat and plant descriptions accompanied by close-up photographs, this book will help you discover the bounty of the land and its plants around you.
Learn about each plant's nutritional content, and medicinal and culinary uses. Discover where the plant can be found and how to harvest it correctly. Identify the plant's physical characteristics with color photograph. Find recipes for fresh salads, unusual appetizers, delicious soups, breads and more.For explorers, foragers, harvesters, or just the casually interested, this book will help readers recognize Alaska's most common edible plants, including chickweed, highbush cranberry, crowberry, sweet gale, and more.
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