Dandelion Hunter - Foraging the Urban Wilderness

Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Lerner has quickly become one of the best-known urban foragers in America. Through teaching! speaking and writing about the useful wild plants of Portland! Oregon! she seeks to "inspire and empower my fellow human beings to remember who we really are." Lerner and her popular blog! www.FirstWays.com! have been mentioned! quoted! profiled and interviewed by a variety of media outlets! including the Los Angeles Times! The Oregonian! the Boston Globe! and the Utne Reader. Klappentext In this engaging and eye-opening read, forager-journalist Becky Lerner sets out on a quest to find her inner hunter-gatherer in the city of Portland, Oregon. After a disheartening week trying to live off wild plants from the streets and parks near her home, she learns the ways of the first people who lived there and, along with a quirky cast of characters, discovers an array of useful wild plants hiding in plain sight. As she harvests them for food, medicine, and just-in-case apocalypse insurance, Lerner delves into anthropology, urban ecology and sustainability, and finds herself looking at Nature in a very different way. Humorous, philosophical, and informative, Dandelion Hunter has something for everyone, from the curious neophyte to the seasoned forager.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Lerner, Lerner Rebecca
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2013
• EAN: 9780762780624
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-8062-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; West, NATURE / Plants / General, Pacific Northwest, Oregon, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists, Pacific, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, The environment, Food & society, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Cultural studies: food and society