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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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