Sentences with phrase «so edible plant»

«Of the 4,000 or so edible plant species that have fed human societies at one time or another in the past,... [Read more...]

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He recommended a few guidebooks: Samuel Thayer's Nature's Garden, John Kallas» Edible Wild Plants, and Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places by Steve Brill.

We loved pond dipping so much we followed it with a survival skills session which was a guided walk through the forest looking for edible plants, making a shelter and even a fire, which of course the children loved!

So it can be more specifically the study of plants that people use for food, for clothing, for medicine, for construction, for ceremony, for decoration — any useful plant you might talk about and I've specifically focused on the medicinal plants and the edible plants and with my research on chocolate, I guess, the psychoactive plants too, you could say.

I won't spoil the ending, but through her attempts at foraging, readers learn about the many available edible weeds (though there are not any pictures, so it isn't a field guide) and gain an interest in the beneficial plants that are all around us.

The «original» banana had little edible fruit and many seeds, so we've been able to cross-breed it with other wild plant species to create the yellow banana we enjoy today.

So the government gave housewives throughout the country a list of «valuable wild plant supplements» to use for vegetables, which included «nettles, goutweed, and dandelions... as excellent sources of iron and vitamin C.» Foraging for wild edibles became common.

So, discovering which plants would be edible during April in upstate South Carolina or getting in the car and driving the route Varina took as she fled south trying to reach Florida becomes more useful to my writing than reading 50 more Jefferson Davis letters.

His Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not - So - Wild) Places (William Morrow Publishers, 1994) is considered a classic on the subject.

I repeat: why use a gene from a poisonous plant when so many edible ones are available?

Since cellulosic ethanol is created by using all of the parts of the plant being used (instead of the 10 %, mainly the edible part, of the plant), in all likelihood, if this process turns out to work as advertised, we could use the discarded parts of corn, or non-edible plants such as switchgrass, so food production would not have to be drastically increased.

Like, why are those foods, of all the tens of thousands of edible plants, so massed produced that they can now be found in supermarkets throughout the

I finally found the size I wanted in a plastic self watering planter box... but it was an ugly color so I used Krylon Maxx metallic spray paint... it looks wonderful BUT I am second guessing myself now as to whether or not it is safe for me to now plant edibles ie lettuce herbs in this painted pot??

I've been missing our old backyard where we had filled so many pots filled with edible plants, veggies and fruit (you can see our old backyard here).