California Bay Laurel

by Tamara Wilder & Steven Edholm
(Paleotechnics Handbook #24, 2019)

Descriptions of this bountiful tree, instructions on how to harvest and process the nuts and recipes on how to transform the roasted nuts into delicious and stimulating treats.

Folded stapled 8 page booklet in Full Color

Approaching Wildcrafting with Knowledge and Intent

Paleotechnics Handbook #1
2008

by Steven Edholm and Tamara Wilder

Practical information, philosophy and ethics related to gathering wild plants.

Folded stapled 20 page booklet

The Patterns Method of Plant Identification

An Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families of North America

by Thomas J. Elpel

Excellent, educational and insightful look at the plant world through its interrelations and common qualities.

Both a good introduction and long term reference.

Tom is a longtime friend and colleague who has published more books, videos and games than most anyone else in our community, from ancestral skills to plants to natural building to examining our modern existence.

235 pages, with color illustrations
8.5” x 11” x .5”

list price $30

(HOPS Press)

Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate

by John Kallas, PhD

Wonderfully detailed book focusing on all different types of wild greens.

Met John Kallas at several ancestral skills gatherings years ago and was always impressed at his body of knowledge on the subject of wild foods.

416 pages in full color
6” x 9” x 1”

list price $27.99 

(Gibbs Smith Publishing)

Wild Foods from Foraging to Feasting

by John Kallas, PhD

This second volume of Edible Wild Plants adds 18 additional plants, their relatives, and look-a-likes, in 15 plant chapters, to the overall collection of plants covered between the two volumes in The Wild Food Adventure Series. This book makes it delightfully exciting to learn about and experiment with known wild foods that will be useful to all, from beginners to advanced foragers.

This book features plants in five flavor categories—foundation, tart, pungent or peppery, bitter, and distinctive & sweet. Organizing this way helps readers use the plants in pleasing and predictable ways. Imagine frequently including cattail, nettles, pokeweed, marsh mallow, daylily, wild radish, and everlasting pea in your meal planning knowing that you acquired these plants from your own foraging adventures. There is also a section devoted to identifying and knowing poison hemlock, often confused with wild carrot in certain stages of development.

John Kallas and his Wild Food Adventure book series are here to help you learn quickly, process intelligently, and genuinely enjoy what you are eating.

Met John Kallas at several ancestral skills gatherings years ago and was always impressed at his body of knowledge on the subject of wild foods.

416 pages in full color

6” x 9” x 1”

list price $27.99 

(Gibbs Smith Publishing)

This new volume 2, like the first, is a user-friendly, pictorially based guide providing all you need to know to start genuinely enjoying wild foods. It helps readers successfully identify plants, develop gathering strategies, and learn preparation and cooking techniques. The unparalleled photographs and depth of understanding will knock your socks off.

All books in this series are designed to teach you things you can actually apply, help you identify edible plants at any stage of growth, give you close up full color photographs of the edible parts at the optimal stages of growth, and show you fun and tasty things to do with them. It lays a foundation and covers plants you are likely to come across on a daily basis no matter where you are in North America or Europe. It covers those plants in the kind of detail that you need to genuinely know and understand them. It clarifies and explains concepts poorly understood and commonly mis-represented in the wild food literature. Once you receive it, compare its coverage of any plant side-by-side to that same plant in any other book ever written. That comparison will reveal the value of this book, and represents what I will continue to do in future books.

Following volume 1’s success, volume 2 continues to help you understand the value and potential of wild foods. This book has 460 photographs and illustrations, fun and authoritative text, focused attention on plant details, nutrient tables, range maps, recipes, and a plethora of additional preparation and cooking tips. In this substantial 416 page book, author John Kallas gives you the knowledge and confidence needed to enjoy edible wild plants as a part of your regular diet.

John Kallas is one of the foremost authorities on North American edible wild plants and other foragables. He's learned about wild foods through formal academic training and over 45 years of hands-on field research. John has a doctorate in nutrition, a master's in education, and degrees in biology and zoology. He's a trained botanist, nature photographer, writer, researcher, and teacher. In 1993 he founded the Institute for the Study of Edible Wild Plants and Other Foragables along with its educational branch, Wild Food Adventures. John's company is based in Portland, Oregon, where he offers regional workshops, and multiday intensives on wild foods.

by Thomas J Elpel
& Kris Reed

Incredibly practical and comprehensive guide to wild foods, which is at the same time very accessible. All of this makes it the book you want to have with you out in the field.

Tom is a longtime friend and colleague who has published more books, videos and games than most anyone else in our community, from ancestral skills to plants to natural building to examining our modern existence.

Met Kris Reed at an ancestral skills gathering several years ago and was delighted to find that he had collaborated with Tom to create this most recent title.

338 pages in full color
6” x 9” x .75”

list price $30

(HOPS Press)

MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE MOUNTAIN WEST
by Michael Moore

Excellent text on the medicinal uses of plants found in the west written in a fun easy to read style. Mostly personal experience (not just the same old over-referenced material like so many herb books). All three books make a complete library of western plants.

This book is harder to find than the more commonly found Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West.

$24.95 350 pp.

MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE PACIFIC WEST
by Michael Moore

Excellent text on the medicinal uses of plants found in the west written in a fun easy to read style. Mostly personal experience (not just the same old over-referenced material like so many herb books).

All three of his books make a complete library of western plants, but this one is the first one to get and references that other two (which are much harder to find).

$24.95 359 pp.

(Museum of New Mexico Press)

Exploring the Exotic Gastronomy of Local Terroir

with detailed recipes for ferments, infusions, spices, and other preparations

by Pascal Baudar

This inspiring and acclaimed book is for everyone, from those who have never harvested a plant to experienced wildcrafters alike.

It teaches much more than just a few details about how to harvest, prepare and consume wild foods and instead sows the seeds of taking a whole new approach to our world and what we find in it.

Have never met Pascal in person but this book was highly recommended by a mutual student and have been following his work ever since.

423 pages in full color,
paperback
8.25” x 10.25” x 1.1”

list price $40

(Chelsea Green Publishing)

Tree Girl
…. Intimate Encounters with Wild Nature

by Julianne Skai Arbor

Hardcover

191 pages in full color

$40

13 Essential Plants for Human Survival

A forager’s guide to ultimate food security, including 100 nutrient-dense recipes for food, medicine and self-care

by Katrina Blair

foreword by Sandor Ellix Katz

list price $30

(Chelsea Green Books)

Creating Unique Drinks and Boozy Concoctions from Nature’s Ingredients

Primitive beers, country wines, herbal meads, natural sodas, and more

by Pascal Baudar

When I was first reading Pascal’s first book called The New Wildcrafted Cuisine, I wondered why the fermentation chapter seemed a little short.

This book is one of the reasons why!

290 pages in full color
paperback
7” x 10” x .5”

list price $29.95

(Chelsea Green Publishing)

Exploring, Transforming, and Preserving the Wild Flavors of Your Local Terroir

Wild krauts and kimchees, fermented forest brews, seawater brines, plant-based cheeses, and more

by Pascal Baudar

When I was first reading Pascal’s first book called The New Wildcrafted Cuisine, I wondered why the fermentation chapter seemed a little short.

This book is one of the reasons why!

304 pages in full color
paperback
7” x 10” x .5”

$24.00 (20% DISCOUNT from $30.00 list price)

(Chelsea Green Publishing)

Making and Using Unique Acetic Acid Ferments for Quick Pickles, Hot Sauces, Soups, Salad Dressings, Pastes, Mustards, and More

by Pascal Baudar

The latest installment in an incredible series of books focusing on creating delicious and nutritious cuisine from wild foods.

289 pages in full color
paperback
7” x 10” x .5”

list price $34.95

(Chelsea Green Publishing)