Full of data, charts, nutritional breakdowns, and a poisonous look-alike section, this guide discusses how to identify, gather, prepare, store, and enjoy an endlessly nutritious and renewable resource of wild, edible plants.

Homesteading in the Adirondack Mountains without modern conveniences, Runyon learned to seek wild foods, cook outdoors, and discover basic Native American ways. This resource profiles the 50 most prominent survival foods found naturally throughout the world.

Runyon's self-illustrated stories chronicle her many years as a homesteader in the Adirondacks in a unique and entertaining style. She describes living off the land, foraging for wild food, camping in deep snow, and dealing with insects and critters, while forsaking modern conveniences.

Get the kids involved learning about wild foods!This nice 24 page coloring book is amed at the younger children. Only the safest wild edible foods are represented, along with an animal local to the plant's habitat. The 10 full page line drawings have been done by Linda Runyon herself, and are accompanied by simple descriptions of the plants, how they are used & their Latin names.A thumbnail sketch of the opposite page is used to label the plants & animals.The back cover can be cut up into flashcards so identification games of your design can be played! Lots of fun for the younger child....

This concise yet powerful field guide book contains maps and an introduction specific to the Middle East. Included are plant identification, simple but flavorful recipes, and food additives named in Arabic and Kurdish dialect. But most importantly, it contains invaluable plant identification for that area, so that feeding the world nutritionally becomes a simple matter of that identification. The ramifications of a free food source are staggering.