National Geographic Backyard Guide to Edible Wild Plants
  • Published: 6 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781426223709
  • Imprint: National Geographic
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $55.00
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National Geographic Backyard Guide to Edible Wild Plants

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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 for beginner and experienced harvesters, and more than 600 ideas and recipes to bring the wild into the kitchen.

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 for beginner and experienced harvesters, and more than 600 ideas and recipes to bring the wild into the kitchen.

Joining National Geographic's long line of successful nature guides, National Geographic Backyard Guide to Edible Wild Plants is a colorful, appealing handbook to 102 common wild plants that can be foraged for delicious food and drink. From superstar sunflowers to spicy field mustard to alluring wild grapes, this book identifies a wide variety of flavors and textures that even novice foragers can learn to harvest with care, safety, and sustainability. From there, creative uses abound, including the how-tos behind:

  • elderberry jam
  • chickweed salad
  • sunchoke soup
  • sassafras tea 
  • wild carrot cake
  • homemade backyard cider
This guide is divided into seven sections based on the parts of the plant most relevant to foragers: roots, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, shoots, as well as the "backyard superstars"—a dozen plants that are common, easy to identify, and abundant in their culinary possibilities. Every plant is photographed, illustrated for ease of learning, and described in detail, including hundreds of preparation tips and recipes, thanks to authors Mimi Prunella Hernandez and Heather Wood Buzzard, who bring botanical authority and kitchen creativity to every entry.
  • Published: 6 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781426223709
  • Imprint: National Geographic
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $55.00
Categories:

About the authors

Mimi Prunella Hernandez

MIMI PRUNELLA HERNANDEZ, an herbalist and ethnobotanist, is the executive director of the American Herbalists Guild; she holds a Master of Science degree in Herbal Medicine from Tai Sophia Institute and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Duke University. Hernandez has been practicing and teaching herbal medicine for many years, offering courses online and at Frostburg State University, and she speaks internationally at conferences and seminars