Description
Weed Forager’s chapters include:
- Appreciating Weeds
- Top-20 Edible and Medicinal Weeds
- Other Weeds
- Weedy Recipes
- Weeds in the Garden
- Resources
Featuring:
- Full colour photos and botanical illustrations
- Detailed edibility and medicinal notes on our favourite 20 weeds, plus another 14 short weed profiles
- Delicious and easy recipes
- Remarkable tales from history and folklore!
Reviews
“This handbook is the essential text for both novice and experienced wild food foragers. The guidelines, excellent ID photos and choice of most useful and common species will give the novice confidence while the facts and recipes will extend all but the most advanced weed aficionados. For the gardener tired of joyless weeding Adam and Annie open our eyes to the fact that the problem can indeed be the solution”. ~ David Holmgren
“In other words, if you eat, then this book is a must-have companion”. ~ Costa Georgiadis, host of Gardening Australia
“The most entertaining read about weeds I could ever have imagined”. ~ Larissa Dubecki, author of Prick with a Fork (Allen & Unwin, 2015)
“It’s a little like uncovering gold beneath a tarnished, uninspiring surface, and this book is your metal detector, leading you to the goodies”. ~ Frankie Magazine
Product details
Product details
First Published 2012
Hyland House Publishing
Flexicover, 166 pages, full colour photographs and illustrations throughout.
Size: 175mm x 130mm
ISBN: 9781864471212
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Annie may write ‘horticulturalist’ when she fills out the Main Occupation box on her tax return, but she considers herself an aesthete first and foremost. (She also usually writes some very small numbers in the Earnings box, yet considers herself incredibly rich.) She takes immense pleasure in the sensual world, and sees enjoying it without destroying it to be her main aim as a human being. She’s keen to help others do the same, and gave up making art in favour of teaching people how to feed themselves sustainably. She has worked on permaculture projects in far-flung countries and co-authored with Adam The Weed Forager’s Handbook: A Guide to Edible and Medicinal Weeds in Australia in Australia and Let’s Eat Weeds: A Kid’s Guide to Foraging.
Annie spent a decade at the nursery in CERES Community Environmental Park in Melbourne, and taught over-zealous workshops on soil biology. In between, she finds deserts to walk across, tries to think clever thoughts about the Anthropocene, and lies in her local park reading Thomas Hardy novels and eating homegrown bananas in the sunshine. She currently lives in Western Australia. 
Adam has voluntarily spent much of his adult life as a frugalist, including stretches spending radically tiny amounts – think under AU$2000 annually. He loves the challenge. What’s more, it gives him time to do unpaid work, such as the years he spent founding and developing the energy news website EnergyBulletin.net (now Resilience.org). He’s also one of the co-founders of the global Permablitz movement of volunteer-executed garden makeovers, and has hosted weekly radio shows Food Fight and Greening the Apocalypse on Melbourne’s 3CR and Triple R respectively. For a living, he is a permaculture designer and educator in his business Very Edible Gardens in Melbourne, Australia, co-founded with Dan Palmer. Plus he lets Annie cajole him into writing books with her sometimes.
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