EAT WEEDS - A field guide to foraging - Hard cover
EAT WEEDS - A field guide to foraging - Hard cover
How to identify, harvest and use wild plants
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Eat Weeds
A field guide to foraging: How to identify, harvest, eat and use wild plants
$49.99
There is food within 3 metres of your front door: this book will teach you how to open your ‘plant eyes’.
ISBN: 9781760761493
Forewords by Costa Georgiadis from ABC’ Gardening Australia.
33 plants detailed
6 mushrooms
4 seaweeds
LEARN TO FORAGE
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Selected for the Indie Book Award 2023
Description
There is food within 3 metres of your front door.
Three generations ago it was common practice all over the world to collect this wild food; knowledge of what, where and when to forage was a necessary part of daily life. We still had lived experience of harvesting wild food with our own hands. But with the advent of supermarket culture the knowledge associated with foraging has mostly been lost.
Today, we want this knowledge back. From forest to seaside, riverbank to city street – even your own yard – there is wild food and medicine available to those who know where to look. In the face of global challenges such as climate change, food insecurity and pandemics, we seek to empower ourselves with the information and skills that enable self-reliance and equip us to care for our families and communities.
Eat Weeds shows you how to engage with wild food sources, transforming your neighbourhood into an edible adventure.
220 pages with 200 images by Hellene Algie and 40+ drawings by Mirra Whale.
Recipes and styling from Marnee Fox .
Forewards by Costa Georgiadis, with added content by Kirsten of Milkwood, Pat of Pat Collins Herbalist, Oliver of Fat of the Land and Sea, Adam of Very Edible Gardens and more.
A true labour of love published by Thames & Hudson Australia
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The publication has been supported by the City of Sydney via its Creative Fellowship Fund.
I am full of gratitude and I hope with this book to pay respect to the knowledge holders from all over the world who shared their know-how of edible and medicinal wild plants in Australia, native and not.
This book has been researched, prepared and written over the years in Darug, DHarrawal, Eora and Yuin Countries. I am now on Wiradjuri - I pay my respect to the elders and stories holders of this land.
About the author
Diego Bonetto grew up on a dairy farm in northern Italy when it was still common practice to collect the wild produce of the land. He moved to Australia in the mid-90s and spent years working in orchards and garden centres, where he realised how rare his foraging knowledge was - and how much the people around him longed to rekindle their untapped connection to nature. He now runs foraging workshops that teach participants how to engage with delicious wild food while starting conversations around belonging, sustainability and agency. He has collaborated with chefs, herbalists, environmentalists and cultural workers; he is also an artist passionate about using his practice to restore botanical literacy to communities. Diego has been featured by Marie Claire, GQ Australia, Lonely Planet, The Sydney Morning Herald, ABC and SBS, among other media outlets.
“Diego Bonetto is as mongrel and resilient as the plants that he celebrates. He possesses all of the traits and characteristics that make weeds such an ever present everyday phenomenon. His book engages the everywhere with the everybody. The plants he showcases and introduces are a gift that is only as limited by our vocabulary and communication skills. Diego speaks the language of wild nature. It is part of the very DNA he grew up with on the land and this book is an invitation to observe the world around us with a whole new set of goggles.”
