Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland

Lingvo: English

Eldonita je 6-a de junio 2019 de Independently Published.

ISBN:: 978-1-6707-2769-5

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Covers forty-eight wild edible and medicinal plants of Britain and Ireland.

I wrote this book to help you rediscover our forgotten plant heritage. To learn how to use wild plants as food and medicine. Knowledge that was once common to everyone.

For over fifteen years I have experimented and explored the world of wild plants. Uncovering how our ancestors used plants to nourish and heal themselves.

I’ve spent thousands of hours digging through scientific papers and read hundreds of books. Even gone so far as to be nomadic for over a year. During this time I followed the seasons and plants around the highways and byways of these isles.

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Stephanie Jane recenzis Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland de Robin Harford

Fascinating and inspirational

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Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland is the second of the two Robin Harford foraging books, the other being Forage In Spring, I bought at about this time last year as part of a limited-time bundle deal of two books and two audio courses. This book details forty-eight commonly found plants which have traditionally been used for food and / or medicinal purposes. I downloaded the ebook edition which has a quartet of clear colour photographs of each plant to aid in identification although, as Robin does point out, Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland is not intended as an identification guide, but as a way to come to know each of these plants.

I particularly love the historic and folkloric information he imparts. There's something particularly meaningful to me in knowing I am starting to follow a journey that humans have undertaken for …

Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland is the second of the two Robin Harford foraging books, the other being Forage In Spring, I bought at about this time last year as part of a limited-time bundle deal of two books and two audio courses. This book details forty-eight commonly found plants which have traditionally been used for food and / or medicinal purposes. I downloaded the ebook edition which has a quartet of clear colour photographs of each plant to aid in identification although, as Robin does point out, Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland is not intended as an identification guide, but as a way to come to know each of these plants.

I particularly love the historic and folkloric information he imparts. There's something particularly meaningful to me in knowing I am starting to follow a journey that humans have undertaken for thousands of years although it is a path many of us have wandered away from over the past few centuries through industrialisation and commercialisation. Learning to forage so far has enabled me to replace bought salad leaves and tea bags with their freshly picked equivalents, recouping what I paid for the book within the first month of owning it, but what is far more valuable for me is the sense of belonging and wellbeing that I gain through the ritual of foraging. Harford's clear and concise information gives me the confidence to trust myself in identifying the plants I have learned. Admittedly I am still more at the bramble / dandelion / plaintain stage at the moment, but slowly adding to this list and enjoying the art of incorporating my newly discovered ingredients into more than just salads! I'm encouraged to eat more leafy greens this way to and have been amazed at how wild greens nutrient content stacks up compared to their intensively farmed counterparts.

I think I am not quite so enthusiastic about Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland as I was by Forage In Spring because that book went into much more detail, albeit discussing less than a third of the number of plants. I am glad to have both though and am keenly eyeing up more of Harford's books too. It's just about time to Forage In Summer after all!