The Prepper's Guide to Foraging: How Wild Plants Can Supplement a Sustainable Lifestyle - Softcover

Nash, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1634504933 ISBN 13: 9781634504935

Publisher: Skyhorse, 2016

Synopsis

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 listed as well as botanical guides to help identify other plants is included. Special emphasis has been added for North American trees.

About this title

From the Author

David Nash is a verifiable preparedness MacGyver. He is both an academically trained professional emergency manager as well as a personal prepper. Nash is also a homesteader who raises a variety of animals, bees, and plants in a small suburban yard. He runs the popular prepper's blog tngun.com. He resides in Dickson, Tennessee.

Todd Walker aka The Survival Sherpa is an experienced survivalist that runs several websites and Facebook groups dedicated to wilderness survival and bushcraft.

From the Back Cover

I grew up the son of a park ranger, and spent much of my youth running around in the woods of Tennessee eating berries and gnawing on twigs.

I remember a severe whupping I received once when my father discovered chicory root in his coffee maker.  He was quite adamant that If I wanted to poison myself I could, but I could not put wild things in his food.

However, in my defense, he was fine.  He only discovered the coffee substitute when he threw out the grounds - which means my experiment was a success.  Painful, yes, but a success nonetheless.  In case you are wondering, I don't drink coffee, so I felt there was no need to actually try it myself.

About this edition

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1634504933
• ISBN 13: 9781634504935
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144