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The Weeder's Digest: Identifying and Enjoying Edible Weeds de Gail Harland

The Weeder's Digest: Identifying and Enjoying Edible Weeds

Autor Gail Harland
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 iun 2012
A practical guide to identifying and using the many edible varieties of weed. It includes over 45 species, with details of how to identify them and suggestions for using them for both cooking and making things. Included are common weeds such as nettles and elder, as well as less common plants such as brookline and hairy bittercress.
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ISBN-13: 9781900322997
ISBN-10: 1900322994
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: col. Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 168 x 231 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Uit Cambridge Ltd.

Descriere

This book is a practical guide to identifying and using a wide range of edible varieties of weeds, and will appeal to gardeners, botanists, and horticulturalists, as well as to those with an interest in controlling their weeds in eco-friendly ways.The main part of the book-"The Weeder's Digest"-includes over forty-five species, with details of how to identify them and suggestions for using them for both cooking and making things. Included are the more common varieties, such as nettles, dandelions, chickweed, and elder, as well as the less common-for example, brookline and hairy bittercress. There is also a section on poisonous plants and those edible plants that should not be eaten to excess.

Notă biografică

Gail Harland was born in Aldridge in 1963 and grew up in Sutton Coldfield. She gained a BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics from The University of Wales and currently works as a Community Dietitian in West Essex. She started writing articles for the horticultural press in 1993. She was awarded The Royal Horticultural Society's Diploma in Horticulture in 1999. Gail writes articles on gardening and avian topics, and has had work published by a number of magazines including The Lady, Amateur Gardening, Country Smallholding and Parrots. She writes a regular poultry column for the Cage and Aviary Birds magazine. Her books include Photographing Your Garden; The Tomato Book, written with food writer Sofia Larrinua-Craxton and published in 2009; Grow-it Yourself, a guide to growing vegetables, published in 2010; and Designing and Creating a Cottage Garden, due out in 2012. She supplies photographs to several picture libraries, including Garden World Images. Gail is an active member of many horticultural societies, including the Royal Horticultural Society, The Alpine Garden Society, The Hardy Plant Society and The Cottage Garden Society. She is the newsletter editor for The Peony Society and Secretary for The Peony Group of The Hardy Plant Society. Gail lives in Suffolk where she has a cottage garden of about one acre, which she shares with her husband, her two sons and a variety of ducks and chickens. Gail has been eating the weeds from her garden and feeding them to her husband and children for nearly 20 years. She first wrote about edible weeds for Country Smallholding magazine in 1999. Her book The Weeder's Digest was published in 2012.