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13 Essential Plants for Human Survival
Katrina Blair
Paperback
$ 34.95
The Wild Wisdom of Weedsis the only book on foraging and edible mourning band to sharpen on the thirteen weeds found all over the globe , each of which represents a stark food generator and blanket medical pharmacy and first - aid outfit . More than just a orbit guide to wild edibles , it is a global plan for human selection .
When Katrina Blair was eleven she had a lifespan - changing experience where wild plants verbalise to her , beckon her to become a champion of their causal agency . Since then she has spend months on end taking walkabouts in the wild , eating nothing but what she forages , and has become a wild - foods advocate , community militant , gardener , and chef , teaching and exhibit internationally about scrounge and the healthful lifestyle it encourage .
Katrina Blair ’s philosophy inThe Wild Wisdom of Weedsis sober up , realistic , and at long last optimistic . If we can open up our eyes to see the wisdom found in these weeds right under our nose , or else of trying to eliminate an “ invasive , ” we will achieve true solid food security department . The Wild Wisdom of Weedsis about healing ourselves both in torso and in spirit , in an age where technology , good farming , and work on foods dictate the footing of our intelligence activity . But if we can become intimate with these thirteen comestible natural selection weeds found all over the earth , we will never go hungry , and we will become nearer to our own groundless human instincts — all the while enjoying the freshest , wildest , and most nutritious food there is . For free !
The thirteen plant life found growing in every region across the world are : blowball , mallow , purslane , plantain , thistle , amaranth , pier , mustard , Gunter Wilhelm Grass , chickweed , trefoil , lambsquarter , and knotweed . These special plants put up to the re-formation of the earth while supporting the survival of our human species ; they arise everywhere where human civilization subsist , from the hot deserts to the Arctic Circle , following the way of human hoo-hah . Indeed , the more human beings vex the earth and put our food for thought supply at risk , the more these thirteen works proliferate . It ’s a selection plan for the age .
include over one hundred unique recipes , Katrina Blair ’s rule book instruct us how to develop these wild plants from root to come in soups , salads , slaws , crackers , pesto , seed boodle , and seeded player butters ; cereals , green powders , sauerkraut , smoothies , and milks ; first - aid concoctions such as tinctures , tea , salves , and soothers ; ego - care / beauty products include shampoo , mouthwash , toothpaste ( and brush ) , expression mask ; and a lot more . Whether readers are based at home or traveling , this book aims to empower individuals to maintain a state of optimum wellness with minimal price and effort .
“ Katrina Blair ’s charming and intelligentThe Wild Wisdom of Weeds … deliver just about the best argument I ’ve read for the futility of figuring out what , exactly , qualify as a native plant and why ‘ invasive ’ can be a blemished construct . ”—New York Times
“ The Wild Wisdom of Weeds is one of those rare and authoritative books that has the content to radically alter your view of a world you think you knew well . You ’ll never face at weeds the same again!”–Ben Hewitt , writer ofThe Nourishing Homestead
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