The Prepper's Guide to Foraging: How Wild Plants Can Supplement a Sustainable Lifestyle, Revised and Updated, Second Edition

by David Nash

Overview

Revised and updated.

The Prepper's Guide to Foraging is not a plant identification guide in the traditional sense. It is instead a guide to using plants to supplement other means of food production and subsistence living. Author David Nash believes that there is not enough land available for to support a large-scale return to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the event of a large-scale disaster, but that botanical knowledge does provide an edge to the well prepared.

This book advocates the acquisition of knowledge to allow its reader to safely identify, harvest, and use common North American plants. Wild plants can provide shelter, material, medicine, and food to help the reader extend stored food as well as to create items that may be otherwise unavailable during a crisis.

Twenty-five easily identified plants common to the United States are described and illustrated with notations for their common usage. Each plant described in this book comes with one recipe for food as well as detailed instructions for at least one alternative use. Additional instructions for the preparation of standard medicinal items like tinctures, creams, and infusions are included as well as botanical guides to help identify other plants is included. Special emphasis has been added for North American trees.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781510737723
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	11/12/2019
Edition description:	2nd Edition, Second Edition
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	623,673
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.10(d)

About the Author

David Nash has been in the firearms industry his entire life. After his service in the US Marines, he began work with the Tennessee Department of Correction where he gained certification as both an NRA instructor and agency firearm instructor. He is currently an NRA training counselor and works as a correctional academy instructor. Nash lives in middle Tennessee with his wife Genny, his young son William Tell, and a pretty smart dog.

Table of Contents

How This Book Is Organized vii

Foreword Todd Walker viii

Introduction ix

Chapter 1 How to Learn About Wild Edible Plants 1

Chapter 2 Universal Edibility Test 5

Chapter 3 Is Foraging an Appropriate Meal Plan for Outdoor Adventure? 9

Chapter 4 Identifying Plant Parts 11

Chapter 5 Responsible Harvesting Guidelines 19

Chapter 6 Trees 29

American Basswood 30

Birch 33

Dogwood 38

Eastern Red Cedar (Juniper) 42

Honey Locust 45

Oak 49

Osage Orange 53

Sassafras 56

Staghorn Sumac 60

Sycamore 64

Walnut 68

White Pine 75

Willow 77

Chapter 7 Plants and Shrubs 82

Amaranth 83

Blackberries 87

Broadleaf Plantain 90

Burdock 93

Cattails 96

Chickweed 99

Clover (red and white) 103

Comfrey 107

Common Evening Primrose 111

Common Milkweed 115

Common Yarrow 119

Dandelion 123

Elderberry 128

Kudzu 132

Lamb's Quarters 137

Mayapple 139

Milk Thistle 143

Mullein 145

Purslane 148

Shepherd's Purse 151

Stinging Nettle 154

Wild Bergamot 157

Wild Gooseberry 161

Wild Rose 164

Wild Strawberry 167

Appendix: Suggested Reading 171

About the Author 173