Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Rockies | 
|  | | | Title: | Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Rockies | | Author: | Linda Kershaw | | Publisher: | Lone Pine Publishing | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | April, 2000 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1551052296 / 9781551052298 | | List Price: | $21.95 | | You Save: | $7.02 | | Amazon Price: | $14.93 | |
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Learn about the edible and medicinal characteristics of 333 of the most common plant species of the Rockies. This book includes accounts of how the plants were used by Native Americans and early European settlers.
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Customer Reviews:
• Great Resource 26 June, 2008
I have really enjoyed this book a lot. I am very satisfied with the text and pictures. This book doesn't have a key so you have to know the name of the plant you are wanting to look up to find info about it.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1R5HP8W4HWJO
• A Must For Campers & Hikers 08 March, 2007
We've used this book on every occasion we've been either hiking and camping and that is quite a lot. We've found all sorts of edibles that we normally wouldn't have eaten.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A36G0ZYWHOFQD3
• Excellent Book 05 June, 2008
I bought this book to replace one I had passed on to a young kid who wanted to learn more about his Rocky Mountain environment. I have owned this book for four years and found it to be the most educational book about edible and medicinal plants that are found in the Rocky Mountain region. The color illustration helps immensely. Any person who is inspiring to spend time in the Rocky Mountain back country should own this book.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AO97F8UDQL0G6
• Terrific Field Guide 18 February, 2008
I bought the Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Rockies book when we moved to the Rocky Mountains and it has been indispensable. It is a well written reference guide with lots of information about each plant and great color photos to help you identify them. A must for anyone wanting to learn how to safely harvest wild foods in the Rockies.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1NR4YDGFK4GC6
• For The Rockies, The Book For Gathering Plants.... 17 August, 2008
For the basics on this great book, see Leslie Nelson's review -- it's spot on in describing its many strengths. I know nothing that touches it for Rockies edible & medicinal plants. Its pictures make gathering the most common plants quite easy, at least for someone used to identifying flowers, trees, bushes & other plants. Though for some plants, and if you're not used to identifying plants, I'd recommend getting a few other books for confirmation, such as Guennel's "Guide to Colorado Wildflowers" & Kershaw's "parent" wildflower book, Lone Tree's "Plants of the Rocky Mountains". If you're not sure on identification, another couple of books often help. For your area -- mine is Colorado -- you might go to your local National Forest bookstore or a State Park bookstore. If you're actually planning to use these plants medicinally (which I do), you might want something like Phyllis Balch's "Prescription for Herbal Healing", which has no pictures, but has a lot more data on uses, limitations & warnings.
I live on Pikes Peak and, during the season -- maybe April/May through October/November, I gather fresh greens, berries, bark, leaves, etc. on many, if not most days. I was raised with a grandmother who, back in Illinois, did much the same, which is how she helped feed a family during the Great Depression, 10 years before I was born. So I'm the "semi-serious" gatherer, who moved from Grandma to Euell Gibbons's "Stalking the Wild Asparagus" 35 years ago. (I learned to graze quite well, thank you, on the South Side of Chicago, much to the amusement & amazement of my friends.)
As a start to playful or semi-serious gathering in the Rockies, this book cannot be beat. It helped me adjust from my midwestern gathering to gathering in my new home. It added to my knowledge of which medicinal plants here were available & useful. Although always, ALWAYS follow the rule: If you're not SURE, never put it in your mouth!
But I have some minor (really minor) complaints: the book is weak in how and, especially, when to gather & prepare. For example, it talks about fireweed as a tea, both flowers & leaves, but it doesn't say whether this works with dried leaves & flowers or only fresh. And while the flower season is short, so any gathering time is obvious, when is the best time to gather the leaves -- young as they first come up or late in the season, after the flowering? Another minor complaint -- the book has a lot of Eurasian plants, whose uses are better documented, of course, and which are readily found in disturbed & more urban. But then it lacks any information on many really basic & common flowers, like, for instance, wild geraniums. (Infuriatingly, Kershaw does discuss, briefly, the uses of geraniums in her more general book -- VERY briefly.)
However, there's no doubt, this is absolutely the book to start with.
The real problem is there's no book to take us to the next level. And that's my real complaint.
By all means -- semit-serious, playful or casually interested -- buy the book. You'll love it!
- Reviewed by customer ID: AAHS4YVU9TY83
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