"When pioneers, prospectors, and others later began daring the plains and deserts, many of them starved amidst abundance because they didn't know what to eat or how to prepare it." (Bradford Angier, Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants, 22; 1996)
"Thousands have starved death in pine forests, or have suffered and died from scurvy, when a little of the knowledge we are considering would have saved them." (ibid, 166)
"I learned that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain health and strength. I have made a satisfactory dinner off a dish of purslane which I gathered and boiled. Yet men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries but for want of luxuries." (Henry Thoreau, from his classic Walden at Concord, Massachusetts)
I am in the process of developing wild plant gathering techniques, preparation and photo identification for the species listed below. All directions are purposely succinct, giving what is necessary to make a plant edible.
