Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie

""Kindscher's Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie was already an ethnobotanical classic; this fantastic new edition, with excellent color photos and expanded text, is indispensable for the edible plant enthusiast.""--Samuel Thayer is the author of Sam Thayer's Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: of Eastern and Central North America and The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants ""A casual visitor to a prairie in summer might think, 'There's nothin' to eat here.' Would he be right? Not at all! According to award-winning ethnobotanist Kelly Kindscher, the prairie hosts over a hundred edible species. His new book, a revised version of his popular Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie, features striking color photos, useful descriptions, distribution maps, detailed uses, and both English and Indigenous names for 117 species. An excellent work and a go-to source for prairie lovers!"" --C. Thomas Shay, author of Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains ""I can't say enough about Kelly Kindscher's second edition of Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie. The first edition was plenty good and now we have even more 'good stuff.' Here is a man who 'talks the walk.' I am remembering that 80-day trip he took 41 years ago from the Kaw at Kansas City almost to the Rockies that was 690 miles. He saw and tasted as many plants as the Native Americans had for thousands of years.""--Wes Jackson, author of Hogs Are Up: Stories of the Land, with Digressions ""I ran across Kelly Kindscher's book Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie while researching for my second book, Foraging Central Grasslands. It was truly inspirational, and Kindscher's expert guidance was instrumental to the completion of my project. His second edition is obviously a life's work with its in-depth information and stories gleaned from Indigenous peoples' understanding of the plant world. For anyone interested in the historic/prehistoric use of wild edible plants and ethnobotany, this book is a must-have!""--Bo Brown, author of Foraging the Ozarks: Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible Wild Foods in the Ozarks