Description

The Prepper’s Guide to Foraging is not a plant identification guide in the traditional sense. It is instead a guide to using plants to supplement other means of food production and subsistence living. The author believes that there is not enough land to support a return to the hunter/gatherer lifestyle. Moreover, this is definitely  the case  for a large-scale disaster. However, he believes that botanical knowledge does provide an edge to the well prepared.

This book advocates the acquisition of knowledge to allow its reader to safely identify, harvest, and use common North American plants. Wild plants can provide shelter, material, medicine, and food to help the reader extend stored food as well as to create items that may be otherwise unavailable during a crisis.

Illustrations describe twenty-five easily identified plants common to the United States. Additional notations show their common usage. Each plant described in this book comes with one recipe for food as well as detailed instructions for at least one alternative use. The book contains information on the reparation of standard medicinal items like tinctures, creams, and infusions. Additionally, Botanical guides to help identify other plants.

North American trees received special emphasis.

Author Note

This Second addition is almost an entirely new book.  To be honest, the revision was actually supposed to be a completely new title.

Also I was lucky to get Todd Walker, aka the Survival Sherpa to write the introduction.  He is an experienced survivalist that runs several websites and Facebook groups dedicated to wilderness survival and bushcraft.