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Alaska's Wild Plants: A Guide to Alaska's Edible and Healthful Harvest

AUTHOR Schofield, Janice J.
PUBLISHER Alaska Northwest Books (03/31/2020)
PRODUCT TYPE Hardcover (Hardcover)

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With bright color photographs and completely up-to-date information, this authoritative guidebook introduces adventurers and harvesters to more than 80 of Alaska's most common wild edible plants.

Alaska's Wild Plants is the perfect guide to tuck in your backpack as you explore Alaska's lands. Now reorganized to be more user friendly with a new introduction to foraging, this informative book will help you discover the bounty of the land and its plants around you.

  • Understand basic principles to foraging and easy plant preparations.
  • Learn about each plant's nutritional content, and medicinal and culinary uses.
  • Discover the habitats where the plant can be found and how to harvest it correctly.
  • Identify the plant's physical characteristics with an accompanying color photograph.
  • Find more expert sources to continue your plant education.

For explorers, foragers, harvesters, or just the casually interested, this book will help readers recognize Alaska's most common edible plants, including chickweed, high bush cranberry, crowberry, sweet gale, and more.

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ISBN-13: 9781513262796
ISBN-10: 1513262793
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language: English
Edition Number: 0002
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Page Count: 200
Carton Quantity: 24
Product Dimensions: 5.00 x 0.69 x 8.00 inches
Weight: 0.88 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
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BISAC Categories
Nature | Plants - General
Nature | Regional
Nature | Reference
Dewey Decimal: 581.632
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019049578
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With bright color photographs and completely up-to-date information, this authoritative guidebook introduces adventurers and harvesters to more than 80 of Alaska's most common wild edible plants.

Alaska's Wild Plants is the perfect guide to tuck in your backpack as you explore Alaska's lands. Now reorganized to be more user friendly with a new introduction to foraging, this informative book will help you discover the bounty of the land and its plants around you.

  • Understand basic principles to foraging and easy plant preparations.
  • Learn about each plant's nutritional content, and medicinal and culinary uses.
  • Discover the habitats where the plant can be found and how to harvest it correctly.
  • Identify the plant's physical characteristics with an accompanying color photograph.
  • Find more expert sources to continue your plant education.

For explorers, foragers, harvesters, or just the casually interested, this book will help readers recognize Alaska's most common edible plants, including chickweed, high bush cranberry, crowberry, sweet gale, and more.

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