Herbology & Cookbooks

Discover the vital role fungi play in your garden.  Fungi are all around us, including in our gardens.  From the vast mycorrhizal networks in the soil to rings of mushrooms that pop up in lawns overnight, we live surrounded by this...

Star chef Pyet DeSpain rose to prominence as the first winner of Gordon Ramsey’s Fox television show Next Level Chef. Now, in her debut cookbook, she shares the joy of cooking fueled by her burning passion for Native American and Mexican...

Uncover the stories behind the foods that have linked the natural environments, traditions, and histories of Indigenous peoples across North America for millennia through more than 100 ancestral and modern recipes from three-time James Beard...

Soups are packed with superfood vegetables, beans, grains, meats, fish, herbs, and spices, all of which support the immune system, nourish the body, and replenish depleted nutrients. In this book, authors Susan Crowther and Julie Fallone offer delicious...

The world contains countless cuisines, techniques, and ingredients.  But there is one thing that bonds them all- every single culture has some form of soup.  Long thought to be restorative, soups serve an even more important role in our diets:...

Eat healthy, save money, and enjoy edible wild plants! Foraging is a treasure hunt.  it's seasonal, sufficient, varied, and provides plenty of nutrients.  It yields the satisfaction born of food independence and competence.  There's no...

In a 33 x 41 ft plot - half the size of a doubles tennis court - you can grow enough vegetables to be self-sufficient.  Huw Richards tested his very own self-sufficiency garden, growing 7,250 portions in 10 months by spending an average of just 4...

Follow the concept of “right crop, right place” to grow delicious fruits and vegetables that will thrive in your outdoor space Expert gardener Lucy Chamberlain grows more than 150 varieties of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and crops in her...

Take charge of your health naturally with tried-and-true plant based treatments.  Explore the health properties and practical uses of more than 140 medicinal herbs, such as turmeric, rosemary, and ginger.  Browse the fully illustrated expert...

Forage more than 100 delicious edible plants straight from your backyard with this useful, engaging, beautifully illustrated guide. Nature-lovers, gardeners, and foodies can turn their backyard into a bounty with tips for identifying wild plants, advice...

In this rich collection of prose, poetry, and recipes, Teresa Peterson shares how she found refuge from the struggle to reconcile her Christianity and Dakota spirituality, discovering solace and ceremony in communing with the earth. Observing and...

Plants for Desperate Times is an introduction to the diversity of plant foods that have saved millions of lives during lethal food shortages. While not a field guide, it addresses questions about what famine foods are and why they are important. The...

This enriching cookbook celebrates eight important plants Native Americans introduced to the rest of the world: corn, beans, squash, chile, tomato, potato, vanilla, and cacao—with more than 100 recipes. When these eight Native American plants...

Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine is the definitive reference on herbal plants and their medicinal properties for those seeking natural remedies.  Detailed descriptions, constituents, and uses for more than 560 plants - Practical how to remedies for...

This book covers all the basics you NEED to know, including: 50+ Herbs and their medicinal, culinary, aromatherapy, tea and other uses How to get away from pharmaceuticals and become self-sufficient The TOP 10 mistakes people do that damages...

There's food in them thar hills! There is also food in the valleys, meadows, swamps, and all around town, too... maybe even in your own backyard. Foraging the Mountain West is a guide to harvesting and celebrating nature's abundance. Reach out and...

This book is intended as an easy-to-use field guide for the wildflower enthusiast with little or no formal botanical training.  Thus, technical terminology has been limited.  The wildflowers included in this guide represent some of the more...

  In Forage & Feast, experienced forager and chef Chrissy Tracey takes you on a journey to discover and collect plants and fungi. Use the identification guides and nature photographs to help you forage, then cook your way...

Here it is, the final word on the most sought-after wild fruit in the mountain west, the tangy berry that makes its domestic cousin, the blueberry, seem like bland stuff. This wildly popular book features 37 delectable recipes from cakes to champagne...

The Gardener’s Guide to Prairie Plants is the one-stop compendium for all gardeners aspiring to use native prairie plants in their gardens. Neil Diboll and Hilary Cox—two renowned prairie gardeners—compile more than four...

In Under Prairie Skies, C. Thomas Shay asks and answers the question, "What role did plants play in the lives of early inhabitants of the northern Great Plains?" Since humans arrived at the end of the Ice Age, plants played important roles as Native...

Stumbling upon plump wild berries on a hike or discovering succulent fresh mushrooms on the forest floor can be a welcome surprise. Turn up these happy accidents to a whole new level with the only guide on foraging you'll ever need! Chock full of...

Begin Identifying and Collecting Seven Edible Mushrooms! Since 1993, Start Mushrooming has been the trusted guide for beginners. This second edition introduces seven of the most common, edible wild mushrooms in North America. It features more...

Modern Indigenous cuisine from the renowned Native foods educator and former chef of Mitsitam Native Foods Café at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American IndianFrom Freddie Bitsoie, the former executive chef at Mitsitam Native...