Rare Harvest: A Field Guide to Foraging, Farming, and Reclaiming Your Connection to the Earth by Indy Officinalis

The forager, urban farmer, and NatGeo star shares a beautiful, practical field guide and primer to the ethics of caring for the land, meeting you wherever you are in your relationship with the natural world. With this indispensable resource in the garden, in the field, and in the wild, learn the basics of foraging, as well as the “whys” of foraging and self-reliance. In a country with overflowing grocery store shelves, why should we learn to find, identify, grow, and harvest our own food? With Indy’s wisdom and guidance, and journal space to record your own observations, learn: common foraging and farming identification terms how to measure and ID specimens culinary and medicinal applications the stories behind the plants; how they came to grow where they are sociocultural and economic considerations Read more