Monday, May 06, 2013

You are warmly invited to the launch of A Forager's Treasury by Johanna Knox


Monday 13 May, 5.30pm
Marsden Books, 159 Karori Road, Wellington
Please RSVP by calling 04 476 8066




A FORAGER'S TREASURY
A New Zealand guide to finding and using wild plants
by Johanna Knox

A beautiful, illustrated gift book on the art of finding food as well as the wild-growing ingredients you need for healthcare, perfumery and craft

New Zealand is paradise for foragers. Even if you’ve never foraged before, who, at the very least, can say that they’ve never picked a sun-warmed blackberry or sucked the nectar from a jasmine flower?

All over New Zealand, there is an abundance of healthy fruit, herbs, greens, nuts and flowers just waiting to be picked. Foraged food is free, sustainable and fun to collect . . . as long as you know what to look for (and what to avoid).

A Forager's Treasury profiles this country’s most common edible and useful plants, including advice on where to find them, how to harvest them and how best to use them.

Learning to forage food will keep your family healthy, introduce wild foods into your diet, save you money, and get you exploring the countryside. With this book, you will learn all the basics of foraging, including what to look for, what is poisonous, how to deal with your harvest, how to store the produce and how to cook it or put it to other good uses.

Once you read this book, you’ll never look at wild plants the same way again.

About Johanna Knox
Johanna Knox is one of New Zealand's most knowledgeable and creative foragers. She is also a writer, editor and researcher with a long-standing interest in food, sustainability and resilience. She has a fascination for ‘the complex give-and-take between the human and plant worlds’. Johanna has written numerous magazine articles, and is the author of a children's fiction series about carnivorous plants. She has also worked for Te Papa, Te Ara, Motat and Puke Ariki. From late 2008 to early 2011, Johanna had a popular foraging segment on Radio New Zealand National’s ‘This Way Up’ programme. Johanna lives in Featherston with her partner and two children.

Published by Allen & Unwin. RRP$36.99. 

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