This is a great book for anyone starting out with wild food.It focuses on a few of the most common plants and has multiple pictures of each stage of growth, making identification really easy.Would highly recommend. ( )

Why hike your local woods when you can eat them too? Om nom nom... ( )

Both a field guide and a cookbook! Great photos, has plants in different stages of development as well as lookalikes to beware of, easy to use. Recipes are simple. Full of hints and tips from a seasoned forager ( )

Oh, this is splendid! It has photos of many variations of leaves for each plant, and lots of interesting digressions on each sort of plant. This is the book you want to have in your library after the war. Or after peak oil. Or after the government collapses. Pick your dystopia, but buy this book first.

Well-photographed, well-explained, well-written- this is one for the permanent collection. ( )

Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate has become a very valuable resource in my ongoing journey of learning about the edibility of native and non-native plants in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. This guide is an outstanding source of plant descriptions for complete stages of growth, ranges, growing environments, harvesting and processing tips, recipes, and nutritional information such as phytonutrient content and some caveats such as oxalates, all accompanied by relevant, clear photographs of each plant covered. I liked the approach of organizing the plants into four "flavor" sections and appreciated more extensive nutritional information in the last section of the book, which includes a clear, easy to reference chart packed with information on individual wild edibles.

I've taken a couple of day workshops with Dr. Kallas in Seattle and thoroughly enjoyed the experience from this warm, down-to-earth and easily approachable man. I appreciate the fact that he has a PhD and years of practical real-life and research experience. He is a wealth of knowledge and I hope to take more courses in the future such as a multi day workshop offered in southwest Washington state near Mt. Adams, on the coast of Oregon or at the Wild Foods Summit in Minnesota. If you have a chance to take one of his workshops you should leap at it. ( )