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Library Journal– "When you encounter a weed, do you pull it, spray it―or consume it? Blair, a holistic health and sustainable living educator, recommends the latter. In the first few chapters of this title, she emphasizes the importance of wild plants as food and medicine. The remaining chapters profile 13 edible weeds commonly found worldwide near human habitations: amaranth, chickweed, clover, dandelion, dock, grass, knotweed, lambsquarter, mallow, mustard, plantain, purslane, and thistle. Many are frequently classified as noxious or invasive, but Blair encourages us to see them not as enemies to be eradicated but as allies to nourish body and spirit. Each profile includes botanical and common names, a description, photos, history, edible and medicinal uses, and recipes. All recipes are vegan and most are raw. Verdict: This book includes valuable information about identifying and using common weeds and encourages us to reconsider our relationship with these usually scorned plants.”The New York Times- “How do we learn to empathize with other creatures, to respect the web of life that connects us all? The answer must lie, at least in part, somewhere in the deeply pleasurable childhood experiences so many gardeners cherish, moments of gazing into the depths of a blossom or watching a tendril unfold ― and falling under the spell of a tiny miracle. … Katrina Blair’s charming and intelligent The Wild Wisdom of Weeds … delivers just about the best argument I’ve read for the futility of figuring out what, exactly, qualifies as a native plant and why ‘invasive’ can be a flawed concept. …Weeds, she insists, are ‘examples of nature’s creative edge.’ They’re powerful ambassadors, here to support our quality of life.”"For more than a decade, I have been learning about the outstanding value of common weeds as survival food, as free and natural “live" foods with nutritive values far exceeding those of store-bought greens, and as sources of natural medicines to help restore health to bodies robbed of their vitality by the toxins, stresses, and poor diets of our modern world. There are thousands of wild edible plants on our planet, most of which are unpleasant to eat and difficult to locate or identify. Many of us wonder where and how we might best begin to learn to find and use these wild edibles. Katrina Blair's The Wild Wisdom of Weeds is the perfect handbook for taking this journey back to better health, vitality, food security, and peace of mind, by learning to collect and use thirteen common nutritious and delicious wild weeds that grow pretty much everywhere that people live. It is a fantastic resource, and I highly recommend it! "--Matthew Stein, author of When Disaster Strikes and When Technology Fails"Required reading for the survival of our species! What can we do to live more sanely in an increasingly insane world? Katrina Blair offers a new world of possibilities. The myriad brilliant insights and pragmatic solutions within The Wild Wisdom of Weeds are essential and evolutionary.”--Happy Oasis, Adventure Anthropologist, founder of Bliss U and the Raw Spirit Festival"The Wild Wisdom of Weeds provides a beautiful and empowering exploration of wild foods, helping you to identify, prepare and celebrate edible weeds that you might otherwise overlook with simple tips on medicinal use, and charming, nutrient-dense recipes. A must-have for any beginning or serious forager.”--Jennifer McGruther, author of The Nourished Kitchen"This may be the most important book you will ever read. Far more than just a book about foraging; it offers, with comforting clarity, hope for the future of feeding the world when before there seemed to be none.”--Nomi Shannon, RawGourmet.com "This is the kind of information that should precede gardening and farming. Katrina Blair expertly shows that before picking up a hoe or spreading a single seed, we can turn to our yards, fields and forests for so many of the foods and medicines we need to live well.   The Wild Wisdom of Weeds is a gem, and will be foundational reading for anyone wanting to live close to the goodness of this Earth.”--Ben Falk, author of The Resilient Farm and Homestead“Katrina Blair keeps it really simple and approachable..her recipes have inspired me to experiment with new ingredients in my ferments.”--Sandor Ellix Katz, author of The Art of Fermentation, from the foreword"Common weeds can be even more nutritious and medicinal than our favorite vegetables. Three cheers to Katrina Blair for sharing the depths of such friends as lambsquarter and purslane! Release your inner goat and go graze. Use these fantastic recipes to become an inspired gourmet of wild things. This book radiates with thorough research and first-hand knowledge of plants that matter.”--Michael and Nancy Phillips, authors of The Herbalist’s Way and The Holistic Orchard“The Wild Wisdom of Weeds is one of those rare and important books that has the capacity to radically alter your view of a world you thought you knew well. You'll never look at weeds the same again!”--Ben Hewitt, author of The Nourishing Homestead and The Town that Food Saved

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About the Author

Katrina Blair began studying wild plants in her teens, when she camped out alone for a summer with the intention of eating primarily wild foods. She later wrote “The Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants of the San Juan Mountains” for her senior project at Colorado College, where she graduated with a biology degree. In 1997, she completed an MA from John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, CA, in holistic health education. She founded Turtle Lake Refuge in 1998, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to celebrate the connections between personal health and wild lands. She has taught sustainable living practices through John F. Kennedy University, San Juan College in Farmington, NM, and Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO. She teaches internationally at retreats, festivals, and educational and healing events. She is also the author of a self-published cookbook, Local Wild Life: Turtle Lake Refuge’s Recipes for Living Deep (2009).

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Product details

Paperback: 384 pages

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing (October 7, 2014)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1603585168

ISBN-13: 978-1603585163

Product Dimensions:

7 x 1 x 10 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.4 out of 5 stars

87 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#64,532 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

I'm really torn on the number of stars to give this book! It's lovely, good quality slick paper, and exceptionally informative. It has great pictures. It's well written. And for all that, I have decided it merits 4 Stars. I withheld the 5th star because of something that I found troubling. It was my hope, in making this purchase, to find information on how to use these 13 essential plants that grow IN THE WILD for actual nutrition if I were OUT IN THE WILD .. somewhere, far from a Trader Joe's or a Whole Foods or from California .. or from all the lovely ELECTRIC appliances which encourage our dependence in the whipping up of culinary treats with which to amaze our family and friends!There are, of course, a few recipes that would work, but MOST seem to be designed to accommodate a 'tossed-in-handful' of whatever wild green, simply for the sake of being able to say 'have a fresh slice of this Knotweed Bread' ... or 'try a bowl of this zesty Dandelion Ice Cream'!See what YOU think: here are the ingredients for the bread: the knotweed is incorporated with some oats, cashews, salt, coconut butter and honey. How likely are you going to be to have ready access to anything BUT the knotweed out on the trail? Baking is accomplished by drying in the sun for the day. Okay .. that works, but really... cashews and coconut butter in the wild??And here's the Dandelion Ice Cream: 3 avocados... THREE?! everyone carries these in the WILD, right? plus the same ingredients you'd use for lemonade. So, to me at least, it appears the dandelions are basically being added to what would otherwise be a tasty dish of 'lemon ice cream' .. and these are only two examples. I guess what I'm trying to say here, is that Ms Blair stopped somewhat short of what seemed to be her professed mission: she says, and I quote, "When we harvest our wild greens outside for our salads, we benefit in so many ways.." ... yet MANY OF THE INGREDIENTS IN HER RECIPES are those you will likely make a run to find at a grocery or health food store: miso, Turkish figs, cacao nibs, tahini, buckwheat groats, black sesame seeds, bananas, agave nectar, kalamata olives, vanilla. The rest you'll be able to manage from the full-fledged garden and orchard in your back yard! ;)The author has a lovely nature farm and a delightful restaurant that serves up delectable wild-greens-incorporated foods And she does tell you a great deal about both the nutritional and medicinal properties of these greens which can be found in every nook on the planet .. it's just that to incorporate them into recipes, you'll have to create your own or else be able to make use of them in your lovely suburban kitchen.If you have your own garden, if you're playing with weed identification, if your family enjoys your culinary experiments, then this book will give you many hours of pleasant reading, opportunities for experimentation, and perhaps some 'take away' for road trips and outings.

She does a fine job with descriptions and medicinal value of 13 plants that are every where and we don't even look at. This book is very interesting and it will be explored. She gives little rhymes so you can remember the facts about each plant in a more simplistic fashion.

This is a great book, and the book to start with if you want to learn wild edibles. The author focuses on 13 common edible "weeds" that grow pretty much everywhere, with a chapter detailing health and medicinal benefits, plus recipes for each. One thing about the author: she lives this stuff. It's obvious her book is a labor of love.As I've read the chapters in the book, I've tried to learn to identify the plants and implement them into my diet. I also had an horticulturist friend come over and show me some of the wild edibles growing in my backyard. Also an old-timer friend went up the nearby canyon with me and pointed out a different wild berries. Combining that knowledge with what I've learned from Katrina Blair, whenever I go walking around the neighborhood or hiking, even above 11,000', I see wild edibles everywhere and often eat them. Dandelion has become a welcome friend instead of an enemy to be eradicated. Knotweed I used to walk over and was 100% unaware of. Now it's a favorite. Mallow, purslane...I also recommend Samuel Thayer's The Forager's Harvest and Natures Garden. Great info on 2 other sets of wild edibles.

Disclaimer: I was raised in Idaho during the 70s, surrounded by hippies and California refugees, ergo, I speak (and can tolerate) fluent Flower Child; this book was written by one of them. *However*, put aside all the New-Agey "Gaia is my muse" stuff, and this is a straight up delicious book. In fact, I love it so much, I bought it twice--once in hardcopy, and once in Kindle, so it can travel with me.Filled with great recipes and botanical Wisdom, this book should be in every kitchen. You'll love it.

I've found all 13 of these weeds in my own neighborhood and have been experimenting with the recipes in the book. Who knew that thistle leaves made such a great juice! As a beginning forager, I was familiar with some of these plants, and I enjoyed the focus on identifying and using this group of 13.However, this book is about a lot more than foraging. Katrina has created all kinds of educational and service activities in her own community to change the perception of these neglected but valuable plants. The book presents her vision of how we can live well on the earth and have fun in the process. I would compare this to "The One Straw Revolution" by Masanobu Fukuoka, but with practical applications, and lots of hope for the future.

Katrina’s writing style flows beautifully. I am in awe and admiration of her extensive knowledge about weeds and their health and medical benefits. I had bought Katrina’s book after she guided a tour this summer and pointed out all the weeds that we try to eradicate and learned that they are our friends, not our enemies! While her book is packed with good information, I was hoping for a format that was more concise about the weeds themselves. This book focuses on her business and travels as much as it focuses on the weeds. I would love to see her produce perhaps a "companion" or "pocket" guide that (1) illustrates each weed, (2) states the best season(s) of the year to harvest them, and (3) lists, in "bullet" format, uses and health benefits of each. I'm not certain just how useful the existing format of this book will be as a reference for me.

I initially borrowed this book from the library, and found that I didn't want to do without it. It covers about 12 different edible weeds and I figure it will help keep me alive in a food shortage. It also has lists of medicinal uses and recipes, too. After reading it, (I didn't know a thing about weeds), I had the courage to forage in my backyard and discovered that these weeds are not only good for you, they can also taste good. Great book for the beginner!!

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