Nature's Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting and Preparing Edible Wild Plants by Samuel Thayer.

We are surrounded by free groceries - gourmet, organic, super-nutritious foods - that we have never tasted and do not recognize.  This book not only identifies these fruits, nuts, grains and vegetables for you, it also teaches you where to find them and shows you how to prepare them. 

Nature' Garden includes:

• More than 400 color photos
• Comparisons with look-alikes
• A calendar of wild food harvest seasons
• Preparation tips and techniques

A detailed guide to 41 of the most widespread wild foods in North America, covering how to find and identify them, which parts are used, when and how to harvest them, and how to prepare them for the table. The cultural and natural history of the plants are also discussed. There is no overlap between the plants covered in this book and The Forager's Harvest.

Paperback, 512 pages