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9781635867862

How to Forage for Wild Foods without Dying Journal Track the Mushrooms and Wild Edible Plants You Find, Season by Season, Year after Year

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    9781635867862

  • ISBN10:

    163586786X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2024-03-26
  • Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC

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Summary

This seasonal journal for tracking the locations and dates of foraged foods Includes essential foraging guidelines and an extensive table of edible plants and mushrooms for each season.

How to Forage for Wild Food without Dying: The Journal is an easy way for foragers to keep track of their foraging finds, where they found them, and at what time of year. By tracking what they collect, foragers can become more adept at locating their favorite wild foods in future years. They also become more educated about how weather patterns affect the availability of wild-harvested plants and mushrooms.

Throughout the book, author and expert forager Ellen Zachos offers essential advice for safe foraging and extensive lists of wild edibles and mushrooms for each season. These act as seasonal prompts, so that readers know what foods to be looking for at each time of the year, and as a way for readers to plan their future foraging adventures. The journal is the same trim size as How to Forage for Wild Foods without Dying and How to Forage for Mushrooms without Dying and features rounded corners for durability, an easy-to-clean cover, elastic closure, and lay-flat binding.

Author Biography

Ellen Zachos is an expert forager and longtime foraging instructor. She is the author of six books, including The Wildcrafted Cocktail and Backyard Foraging. She is co-host of the Plantrama podcast and can be found online at backyardforager.com.

Table of Contents

Part 1  Introduction to Foraging
Why should you use a foraging journal?
 
1)Become a better forager (notes are more reliable than memory)
a.Keep track of your best spots
i.Location (address)
ii.Habitats (ecosystem)
b.Reminder to forage at the right times for YOUR specific location
i.Organization helps! You won’t have to look for dates on all your photos or calendars.
ii.Notes on how harvest dates change from year to year and why: rainfall, frost dates, wind, etc.
c.Notes on how to use your harvests (and how not to!)
 
2)How to use this journal WITH a field guide to combine expertise with experience
a.Field guide provides identification and habitat information
b.Journal allows you to record personal experience
i.Example of combination (plant)
ii.Example of combination (mushroom)
 
3)Safety
a.Allergies
i.Understand plant families
ii.Start small with each new wild edible
b.Location
i.Pollution
1.Chemicals in landscape
2.Traffic
3.Animals (poop, pee and corpses)
ii.Herbicides
1.How to spot herbicide damage
iii.Permission
1.Rules for foraging on public lands
c.Plant identification    
i.Use your field guide!
d.Stage of plant growth
i.Why it matters
 
4)About the Seasons (you already have the intro text for this section)
a.Phenology
i.Example (spicebush blooms when skunk cabbage unfurls)
b.Weather
i.Before frost, after frost?
1.Example: crabapples
ii.Before rain, after rain?
1.Examples: sumac, mushrooms
 
5)When to Forage What
a.How seasons relate to plant parts (shoots, leaves, fruit, nuts, root crops, bark)
i.Flavor
ii.Safety
 
 
Part 2  Foraging Journal
Intro to the Four Seasons
Spring
Intro to Spring
List/chart for spring: Common plants/mushrooms to forage; where to find them and when
Journal pages 
 
Summer
Intro to Summer
List/chart for summer: Common plants/mushrooms to forage; where to find them and when
Journal pages 
 
Fall
Intro to Fall
List/chart for fall: Common plants/mushrooms to forage; where to find them and when
Journal pages 
 
Winter
Intro to Winter
List/chart for winter: common plants/mushrooms to forage; where to find them and when
Journal pages 
 

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