Foraging the Mountain West: Gourmet Edible Plants, Mushrooms, and Meat
There's food in them thar hills! There is also food in the valleys, meadows, swamps, and all around town, too... maybe even in your own backyard. Foraging the Mountain West is a guide to harvesting and celebrating nature's abundance. Reach out and explore the world with your taste buds. Discover new delights you will never find at the store. Connect with nature on a deeper level by meeting, greeting, and eating the plants, fungi, and creatures that share the neighborhood. Become a little more self-sufficient, and a lot more aware.
Foraging the Mountain West is a hands-on manual for identifying, harvesting, and preparing real food. It is written for the backpacker who would rather bring more knowledge and fewer provisions into the wilderness. It is intended for the happy homemaker who wants to eat well and spend less. It is ideal for the creative chef who wants to explore new ingredients and impress diners with novel dishes.
The authors brought together years of experience and fun to show you, the prospective forager, what, when, where, why, and how to gather wild and feral plants, mushrooms, and neglected wayside crops. In addition, this is a guide for successful fishing without a pole, hunting without weapons, and shopping without money. This book will help you fill your freezer and satiate your appetite.
Foraging the Mountain West will help you dream in winter, cleanse in spring, forage in summer, and gorge in fall. The book includes hundreds of vivid color photos detailing every essential aspect of foraging. This guide is not meant to sit on your coffee table. It is meant to start a revolution!
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Foraging the Mountain West: Gourmet Edible Plants, Mushrooms, and Meat
There's food in them thar hills! There is also food in the valleys, meadows, swamps, and all around town, too... maybe even in your own backyard. Foraging the Mountain West is a guide to harvesting and celebrating nature's abundance. Reach out and explore the world with your taste buds. Discover new delights you will never find at the store. Connect with nature on a deeper level by meeting, greeting, and eating the plants, fungi, and creatures that share the neighborhood. Become a little more self-sufficient, and a lot more aware.
Foraging the Mountain West is a hands-on manual for identifying, harvesting, and preparing real food. It is written for the backpacker who would rather bring more knowledge and fewer provisions into the wilderness. It is intended for the happy homemaker who wants to eat well and spend less. It is ideal for the creative chef who wants to explore new ingredients and impress diners with novel dishes.
The authors brought together years of experience and fun to show you, the prospective forager, what, when, where, why, and how to gather wild and feral plants, mushrooms, and neglected wayside crops. In addition, this is a guide for successful fishing without a pole, hunting without weapons, and shopping without money. This book will help you fill your freezer and satiate your appetite.
Foraging the Mountain West will help you dream in winter, cleanse in spring, forage in summer, and gorge in fall. The book includes hundreds of vivid color photos detailing every essential aspect of foraging. This guide is not meant to sit on your coffee table. It is meant to start a revolution!
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Foraging the Mountain West: Gourmet Edible Plants, Mushrooms, and Meat

Foraging the Mountain West: Gourmet Edible Plants, Mushrooms, and Meat

by Thomas J. Elpel, Kris Reed
Foraging the Mountain West: Gourmet Edible Plants, Mushrooms, and Meat

Foraging the Mountain West: Gourmet Edible Plants, Mushrooms, and Meat

by Thomas J. Elpel, Kris Reed

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There's food in them thar hills! There is also food in the valleys, meadows, swamps, and all around town, too... maybe even in your own backyard. Foraging the Mountain West is a guide to harvesting and celebrating nature's abundance. Reach out and explore the world with your taste buds. Discover new delights you will never find at the store. Connect with nature on a deeper level by meeting, greeting, and eating the plants, fungi, and creatures that share the neighborhood. Become a little more self-sufficient, and a lot more aware.
Foraging the Mountain West is a hands-on manual for identifying, harvesting, and preparing real food. It is written for the backpacker who would rather bring more knowledge and fewer provisions into the wilderness. It is intended for the happy homemaker who wants to eat well and spend less. It is ideal for the creative chef who wants to explore new ingredients and impress diners with novel dishes.
The authors brought together years of experience and fun to show you, the prospective forager, what, when, where, why, and how to gather wild and feral plants, mushrooms, and neglected wayside crops. In addition, this is a guide for successful fishing without a pole, hunting without weapons, and shopping without money. This book will help you fill your freezer and satiate your appetite.
Foraging the Mountain West will help you dream in winter, cleanse in spring, forage in summer, and gorge in fall. The book includes hundreds of vivid color photos detailing every essential aspect of foraging. This guide is not meant to sit on your coffee table. It is meant to start a revolution!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781892784360
Publisher: HOPS Press, LLC
Publication date: 06/15/2014
Pages: 360
Sales rank: 998,573
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Thomas Elpel's passion for the natural world started at a young age when he explored southwestern Montana with his grandmother, learning about edible and medicinal plants. He has become a widely recognized expert in wilderness survival, botany, and foraging. He founded Outdoor Wilderness Living School, LLC (OWLS) in Pony, Montana, where he teaches Stone Age survival skills to kids. He teaches adult classes on wilderness skills and sustainable living through his Green University, LLC. Tom teaches and writes to promote a closer and more interactive connection with the natural world.


Kris Reed came to Green University LLC as a student in 2006, where he learned botany and gained a passion for foraging. He is now an instructor at G.U. and Outdoor Wilderness Living School. He doesn t hear the earth asking for more technology to achieve sustainability, but for friends and partners who like getting dirty diggin roots and plantin seeds. The path towards communion is a happy belly.

Table of Contents

Region Covered i

Nature's Banquet 1

Plant Identification 101 11

Foraging Basics 17

Caretaker 25

Salads and Greens 39

Edible or Poisonous? 43

Siberian Elm: Invasive or Inviting? 45

Cattails: Food from Swamp Muck 47

Wild Asparagus: Defend your Territory 55

Milkweed: The Other Asparagus 57

Tumble Mustard: Wild Broccoli 63

Dandelion: Supermarket of the Lawn 66

Sow Thistle: The Bigger Dandelion 72

Salsify: A Forgotten Delicacy 75

Goosefoots: Better than Garden Greens 78

Stinging Nettles: Food that Bites Back 84

White Clover: Always a Lucky Find 88

Sorrel and Dock: Sour or Astringent? 90

Violets: They're not all Purple 94

Brook Saxifrage: Mountain Lettuce 96

Plantain: White Man's Footsteps 98

Thistles: Food with a Security System 100

Prickly Pear Cactus: Good Green Slime 105

Purslane: A Delicacy Underfoot 109

Watercress: Available in any Season 112

Greens in Winter: Foraging for Hope 114

Rooting Around 119

Edible or Poisonous? 125

Bitterroot: Spirit of Montana 127

Spring Beauty: Potato of the Rockies 131

Common Camas: Slow Cooking 136

Glacier Lilies: Too Pretty to Eat? 143

Yellowbells: Chiming in Springtime 146

Burdock: Eating an Invasive 148

Sego Lilies: Food with Fashion 151

Brodiaea: What to Call It? 155

Wild Onions: Diverse and Delicious 157

Yampa: Twins are Normal 159

Biscuitroots: Facts versus Reality 161

Harebells: More than Meets the Eye 163

Worth Mentioning 166

Fabulous Fruits 169

Edible or Poisonous? 175

Gooseberry and Currant Berry Good 179

Huckleberry: Worth Dying For 182

Salal: Purple Power 186

Wild Strawberry: Flirting with Desire 188

Blackberry & Raspberry: Aggregates 190

Wild Rose: Totally Hip 194

Cherry and Plum: From Flesh to Pit 196

Serviceberry: Its Got Substance 204

Black Hawthorn: Packed with Pectin 207

Apple and Crabapple: Feral Fruits 211

Blue Elderberry: The Mother Lode 218

Oregon Grape: The Ungrape 222

Kinnikinnick: Almost Food 227

Buffaloberry: Winter Harvest 229

Worth Mentioning 234

Seeds and Nuts 237

Edible or Poisonous? 238

Sunflower: World Traveler 241

Amaranth: Grain of the Ancients 245

Grass: The Seeds of Civilization 249

Pine Nuts: Insanely Nutritious 255

Black Walnut: In a Nutshell 262

Marvelous Mushrooms 267

Edible or Poisonous? 270

Tree Mushrooms: First Rite of Spring 273

Morels: Lose your Morals 275

Meadow Mushroom: Familiar Favorite 279

Shaggy Mane: Self-Destructing 282

Giant Puffball: Wild Tofu 284

King Bolete: Fit for Royalty 287

Hunting and Scavenging 291

Hunting 101: Sticks, Rocks, and Spears 294

Crayfish: Inland Lobster 298

Common Carp: Disdained but Delicious 300

Roadkill: It's What's for Dinner 309

Dumpster Diving: Living the High Life 323

Gleaning: An Age-Old Tradition 327

A Foraging Lifestyle 329

Bibliography 333

Index by Genus 335

Index by Common Name 336

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