Southwest Foraging
117 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Barrel Cactus to Wild Oregano
Published on 10. August 2016
320 pages
978-1-60469-770-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Southwest offers a veritable feast for foragers, and with John Slattery as your trusted guide you will learn how to safely find and identify an abundance of delicious wild plants. "No one has advanced wild foraging in the desert Southwest as much as John Slattery." --Gary Paul Nabahn, director of the Center for Regional Food Studies, University of Arizona The plant profiles in Southwest Foraging include clear, Clear, color photographs Identification tips Guidance on how to ethically harvest Suggestions for eating and preserving A handy seasonal planner details which plants are available during every season. Thorough, comprehensive, and safe, this is a must-have for foragers in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, southern Utah, and southern Nevada.
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John Slattery is a bioregional herbalist, educator, and forager who is passionate about helping people develop deep and meaningful relationships with wild plants. Visit him at johnjslattery.com.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Foraging in the Southwest:A Wild Path of Discovery
- Harvesting with the Seasons
- Spring
- Summer
- Autumn
- Winter
- Foraging by Plant Part
- Wild Edible Plants of the Southwest
- algerita
- alligator weed
- American bulrush
- apple
- banana yucca
- barrel cactus
- beautyberry
- bellota
- Processing Bellotas
- biscuit root
- black nightshade
- blue dicks
- box elder
- Harvesting Inner Bark
- bracken fern
- bull nettle
- capita
- cattail
- chia
- Gathering and Cleaning Seeds
- chickweed
- chiltepín
- chokecherry
- cholla
- cocklebur
- dandelion
- dayflower
- desert hackberry
- desert willow
- devil's claw
- dewberry
- dock
- elder
- epazote
- evening primrose
- farkleberry
- filaree
- firethorn
- fragrant flatsedge
- gooseberry
- graythorn
- greenbrier
- ground cherry
- hackberry
- harebell
- henbit
- Himalayan blackberry
- horseweed
- Indian tea
- ironwood
- jewel flower
- jojoba
- juniper
- lamb's quarters
- lemonade berry
- London rocket
- mallow
- manzanita
- mariposa lily
- melonette
- mescál
- mesquite
- Processing Mesquite Beans and Cooking with Mesquite Meal
- Mexican palo verde
- milkvine
- miner's lettuce
- monkeyflower
- Mormon tea
- mountain parsley
- mulberry
- nettle
- New Mexico locust
- ocotillo
- oreganillo
- palo verde
- pamita
- pápalo quelite
- pecan
- pellitory
- pennywort
- peppergrass
- pigweed
- Gathering and Processing Pigweed Seeds
- pincushion cactus
- pine
- pony's foot
- prickly pear
- Processing Prickly Pear Fruit
- purslane
- red bay
- red date
- red raspberry
- Rocky Mountain bee plant
- saguaro
- Traditional Processing of Saguaro Fruit
- salsify
- saya
- serviceberry
- sheep sorrel
- Siberian elm
- smartweed
- snakewood
- Solomon's plume
- sotol
- sow thistle
- Texas persimmon
- thimbleberry
- thistle
- Turk's cap
- violet
- walnut
- watercress
- wax currant
- whitestem blazing star
- whortleberry
- wild grape
- wild onion
- wild oregano
- wild plum
- wild rose
- wild strawberry
- wild sunflower
- wolfberry
- wood sorrel
- Metric Conversions
- Useful Internet Resources
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Photography Credits
- Index
- About the Author
