Native Plants and Fungi of the Pacific Northwest

This compact, full-color forager's guide offers clear photography, descriptions, safety tips, and warnings, as well as culinary and medicinal uses from Indigenous Peoples and settlers, for more than 150 wild-growing flora species in the region.

As long as people have lived in North America, wild plants have been an important source of food. This popular handbook contains descriptions of more than 100 plants used for food by the original inhabitants of coastal British Columbia.

Quick-reference identification for 40 wild foods commonly foraged in the Pacific Coast region, from the San Francisco Bay Area north to Alaska -- including mushrooms, nettles, shellfish, berries, sea veggies, and more.

The plant profiles in Pacific Northwest Foraging include clear, color photographs, identification tips, guidance on how to ethically harvest, and suggestions for eating and preserving. A handy seasonal planner details which plants are available during every season. Thorough, comprehensive, and safe, this is a must-have for foragers in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska.

Michaela Goade's luminous rendering of water and forest, berries and jams glows with her love of the land and offers an invitation to readers to deepen their own relationship with the earth.

What is it about the small fruits of field and wood that encourage rapture? These gifts of the earth--flagrant in hedgerows, carpeting the forest floor or coloring tablelands--are so ubiquitous as to be commonplace and yet so extraordinary that we have woven them into our folklore, our fables, and our art.

Some Useful Wild Plants contains sections on useful herbs, trees, berries and seaweeds, as well as commentary on avoiding poisonous species.