The Front Yard Forager: Identifying, Collecting, and Cooking the 30 Most Common Urban Weeds

The Front Yard Forager brings DIY harvesting right to your door, making foraging easy, accessible, and fun for everyone even in the middle of the city or suburbia. From the yard to the parking strip, in city parks or along municipal thoroughfares, food is abundant and free for the taking

The Front Yard Forager invites all of us to take control of our food by entering into the fun and delicious world of foraging. A concise field guide and recipe book, it showcases the 30 most readily found edible urban weeds. From dandelion to day lily, nipplewort to nettle, and pineapple weed to purslane there's a salad bowl full of fresh edibles just waiting to be collected and put to good use. Each plant profile features an easy-to-use field identification guide, including photographs, as well as where to find the plant and what to do with it in the kitchen. Recipes range from simple and classic to practically gourmet, while introductory chapters and sidebars cover the hows and whys of foraging: ethics, nutritional information, harvesting, precautions, and more.

Written by Seattle's Melany Vorass, a longtime instructor of urban foraging, The Front Yard Forager brings DIY harvesting right to your door, making foraging easy, accessible, and fun for everyone--even in the middle of the city--or suburbia.

Winner of the Nautilus Awards 2014 "Better Books for a Better World" Silver Award

Author: Melany Vorass
Publisher: Skipstone Press
Published: 08/16/2013
Pages: 191
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.70h x 7.10w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781594857478

About the Author
Vorass, Melany: -

An avid forager all of her life, Melany Vorass now has more than twenty years of experience in teaching urban foraging workshops to a wide variety of audiences, including at Seattle Tilth, University of Washington, high schools, and homeless shelters. Her foraging recipes have been featured on KCTS-9 Cooks, and her skills and urban farm have been featured in The Seattle Times, Seattle PI.com, MyNorthwest.com, and on KING-5 TV. She tends her urban farm of chickens, honeybees, and goats in Seattle's Greenlake neighborhood, and can be found online at frontyardforager.com.