From Crabgrass Muffins to Pine Needle Tea: A National WIld Food Field Guide"

Eating wild foods has been a passion of mine since I made my first cup of pine needle tea 15 years ago. The nutrition contained in wild foods are unmatched by anything you can find in a supermarket. And best of all, wild plants are free!

Not only are they extremely nutritious, they can be EXTREMELY DELICIOUS!

Especially, if you have the right person guiding you.

I own a few wild woods field guides and recipe books. There are some I really like, BUT most of them are out of print!

Well, guess what?

I recently found a new book on the market that I feel is the BEST wild food field guide around.

AND YOU CAN NOT BUY IT on Amazon!

From Crabgrass Muffins to Pine Needle Tea: A National Wild Food Field Guide

The title of this book immediately caught my attention. One of the VERY first wild food recipes I ever made was Pine Needle Tea! It’s extremely high in vitamin C and is available any time of year. It doesn’t even require drying and storing. I have relied on Pine Needle Tea for many a cold over of the years.

The author knows her stuff!

When buying any book on herbs, it is really important that it be written by someone who really uses the herbs. Linda Runyon is a seasoned herbalist and author. She is an expert in outdoor living skills because she spent many years homesteading as she raised her family.

What you will find in this book...

A GREAT introduction to wild edible plants
Information about living off the land for those wanting to live a simpler life
An informative chart of Wild Edible Foods so you know what parts to pick and when to pick them!
How to pick, collect, dry and store plants!
How to make wild plant teas
How to freeze wild foods
An extensive field guide to the most common and useful wild edibles
Full color plates to all the plants in the field guide to make identification more accessible
AMAZING: Nutritional charts for all the plants in the book!

She notes some of the more common poisonous plants so you know WHAT NOT TO TOUCH! This is really useful!

TONS AND TONS of wild edible recipes include:

A Soup section featuring soups with nettle, lambs quarter, clover, mallow and more.
Wild salads
Clover noodles
Arrowhead stew
Linguine with amaranth cream sauce
Cattail “Corn on the cob”
Chickweed pita pockets
Dandelion stir fry
Wild Greens Quiche
Lamb’s quarter Calzone
Nettle-falafel burgers
Milkweed pod fritters