Product Description
From The Wild: An essential companion to identifying, cooking and enjoying common wild plants for health and healing
From the Wild is a herbal medicine cookbook offering a simple, resourceful, nature-based approach to healthy living. Qualified naturopath and medical herbalist Heidi Merika draws on her decades of experience to create delicious, nutritious, plant-based recipes and healing home remedies from 30 of the world’s most common edible wild plants, from cat’s ear to cobbler’s pegs, dandelion to dock, and nasturtium to wild raspberry. Enjoy over 100 recipes including a spring salad full of wild edibles, nettle gnocchi verde and clover muffins, along with lantana itch balm, chickweed anti-inflammatory gel and St John’s wort pain ointment. Including information on plant identification and foraging safely and sustainably, From the Wild is all you need to forage, cook and eat wild foods for abundant health.
Industry Reviews
‘There’s magic and wonder everywhere around you. In your garden, at the local park, in the forest. From the Wild helps you discover that wonder, weaving a web of connections, care, food and healing, right in front of your eyes.’ – Diego Bonetto, author of Eat Weeds
‘What a treat to be taken on a journey into the wild equipped with the extensive knowledge held within these pages. This book beautifully captures the enchanting world of foraged medicinal plants.’ – Amy Chaplin, James Beard Award-winning author of Whole Food Cooking Every Day and At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen
‘A wonderful companion, full of earthy herb-rich culinary delights and precious plant wisdoms to treasure.’ – Erin Lovell Verinder, author of Plants for the People
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