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
This 2nd Edition, 2025.
CSIRO Publishing
Hard Flexicover, 180 pages, full colour photographs and illustrations throughout.
Size: 175mm x 130mm
ISBN: 9781486320165
About the Authors
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.
After being born in a snowstorm in Boulder, Colorado, and raised in the baking summers of Western Australia, Annie ran away to Melbourne in search of Art. She found it; grew cynical about it; became a professional horticulturalist, an amateur ecologist, and a passionate long-distance hiker. Journeys up many volcanoes and across several deserts ensued. At some point she became cynical about life without art, and started writing.
Her interest in human relationships to landscape led to teaching workshops on foraging, which led to co-authoring The Weed Forager’s Handbook: A Guide to Edible and Medicinal Weeds in Australia and the children’s book Let’s Eat Weeds: A Kids’ Guide to Foraging. Lust for life and extreme scepticism about consumption as a route to contentment led to writing The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide To Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More.
These days, Annie has run away back to Western Australia, where she’s working on her sunburn, her backstroke, and how to think better thoughts about the Anthropocene. Her first novel Once was shortlisted for the 2025 Western Australian Premier’s Book Award. A second novel and a book about human-animal interactions is taking shape.
