The Forager's Garden: Cultivating Wild Plants for Food & Medicine by Shufer, Vickie
The Forager's Garden: Cultivating Wild Plants for Food & Medicine by Shufer, Vickie

The Forager's Garden: Cultivating Wild Plants for Food & Medicine

Grow an Abundance of Food and Medicine--Naturally and Sustainably The Forager's Garden is your guide to transforming...
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Author: Vickie Shufer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Forager's Garden: Cultivating Wild Plants for Food & Medicine by Shufer, Vickie

The Forager's Garden: Cultivating Wild Plants for Food & Medicine

$27.58
The Forager's Garden: Cultivating Wild Plants for Food & Medicine by Shufer, Vickie

The Forager's Garden: Cultivating Wild Plants for Food & Medicine

$27.58
Author: Vickie Shufer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Grow an Abundance of Food and Medicine--Naturally and Sustainably

The Forager's Garden is your guide to transforming ordinary lawns and meadows into thriving ecosystems that nourish both body and soul. With minimal maintenance, you'll learn to cultivate a landscape rich in edible and medicinal plants--designed to work in harmony with nature.

This book goes beyond traditional foraging. It's about creating a living, breathing garden where wild and cultivated plants coexist, supporting a community of humans, animals, and beneficial insects. As food prices rise and conventional gardening becomes more labor-intensive, The Forager's Garden offers a refreshing alternative. Instead of battling weeds and pests, you'll embrace nature's rhythms. Where traditional gardens struggle by midsummer, the wild garden flourishes--requiring little upkeep and offering increasing yields year after year.

Inside you'll find chapters on:
  • Planning
  • Earth Time
  • Creating Habitat
  • Natives in the Landscape
  • The Forest Landscape
  • Naturalized Aliens
  • The Harvest
  • The Wild Apothecary

The Forager's Garden teaches you to mimic nature's design--growing in patches, not rows. This polyculture approach fosters resilience, biodiversity, and abundance. Over time, your garden becomes a self-sustaining ecosystem, providing food, medicine, and habitat for all.

Author: Vickie Shufer
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 05/05/2026
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781510784550

About the Author
Vickie Shufer is a forager and herbalist and author of The Forager's Handbook and The Everything Guide to Foraging. Vickie is the owner of Wild Woods Farm, an 11-acre certified native nursery where she grows and sells native and medicinal plants. She also teaches classes on identifying, harvesting, and preparing wild plants for food and medicine.
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