Let's Eat Weeds!: a kids' guide to foraging

(Hardback)

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From salads to main dishes, edible weeds are delicious! Find out how to identify them, where and when to find them, and how to cook them. Ever thought weeds were just pesky plants to pull out and throw away Think again! This informative, funny, and beautiful book will show you just how great edible weeds can taste. Learn to smell your way to an angled onion, bake weeds 'n' cheese pie, and safely harvest the juicy fruits of a prickly pear. This is the ultimate companion for the young urban or rural forager. Once you've read it, you'll start to see food all around you, every time you go for a walk. Annie Raser-Rowland and Adam Grubb's love of weeds bursts from every page. It is their sincere hope that this book ends up smeared with mud and stained with blackberry juice. Let's get foraging!

Author Bio

Annie Raser-Rowland (Author) Annie Raser-Rowland is a horticulturalist and artist. She works at CERES nursery in Melbourne, giving people advice on how to grow lots of tomatoes. Adam Grubb (Author) Adam Grubb runs an urban permaculture design and education business called Very Edible Gardens, co-hosts RRR radio's Greening the Apocalypse, and also co-founded EnergyBulletin.net (now Resilience.org) and the Permablitz movement. Evie Barrow (Illustrator) Evie Barrow is an artist and illustrator passionate about artful picture books for both kids and adults. Her hand-drawn style celebrates the textures and imperfections made by hand. When she's done sharpening pencils and untangling thread she enjoys watching Nordic Noir and Wes Anderson movies, reading and walking around the Melbourne neighbourhood where she now lives with her husband and their thirteen year old cat, Millie.