FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3/30/14 Wildman Publishes Foraging with Kids Naturalist Releases New Book Americas go-to guy for foraging, Wildman Steve Brill, has just published his fourth book, Foraging with Kids, a 382-page foraging guide for parents, teachers, and grandparents, to introduce nature to children. Foraging is a great gateway for bringing kids into the natural world, and to spark their innate interest in science. Children are curious about the objects around them, especially if theyre edible, and this book covers 71 of Americas most common, widespread, easy-to-recognize, renewable, and tasty herbs, greens, shoots, roots, flowers, fruits, berries, nuts, seeds, seaweeds, and mushrooms (plus poison ivy and poison sumac, so you can easily avoid them). The selected species are especially suitable for children and beginners because they have no poisonous look-alikes. To make identification easy, Foraging with Kids includes clear descriptions of the plants in all their stages, info about their seasons, habitats, and ranges, plus harvesting- and food preparation tips. It even includes 71 tasty, healthful, original recipes. 426 color photos, 35 paintings, 47 drawings, and 6 photos of sculptures modeled after wild mushrooms, all created by Wildman, add up to more pictures than any other foraging book. The work is also a treasury of foraging lore. Its loaded with Wildmans entertaining anecdotes, plus lots of plant-related history, folklore, mythology, and poetry. Science lessons, plus craft projects kids can create with the plants, pop up throughout the pages. Foraging with Kids is available from Wildmans site. The print version goes for $54.95, postpaid. A PDF version is only $12.50. An e-book version will be available by the summer of 2014. For excerpts of the book and additional info, please visit wildmanstevebrill, and navigate to the Books section.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 23:48:34 +0000