The Forager's Harvest - Wild Food, 2 DVD Set

I bought this dvd set along with Samuel Thayer's book "Nature's Garden" so that you can watch the visual reference then take the book with you if you have any difficulty spotting or identifying wild plants. There are 32 wild plants arranged alphabetically broken into two DVD's.Sam shows you how to harvest the plants and shows you how to prepare them. Many times the plants can be eaten raw or by simply boiling in a pot. Sometimes the preparation is labor intensive and requires basic equipment which is demonstrated.If you are looking to explore alternative food sources or supplement your current grocery list this will open your mind to practical alternatives. If there was a disaster I'm sure the author would live just fine off the land but for the beginner forager treat this book as a supplement to your current food supply.

One of the "bibles" for foraging outdoors. I have used it multiple times. Until I bought this book, I didn't realize that I had a salad garden growing naturally on my property every spring and early summer. Really! I was growing wild spinach, plantain, chicory, purslane and chick weed just to name a few and I didn't even know it! I learned how to prepare dandelion root, use dandelion flowers in salads and how to prepare the young greens so they are not bitter. This is a great book and I highly recommend it.

Very informative

I ordered this DVD after I have bought the book by Samuel Thayler in the same topic. Actually, I have already written a comment for it in the review I did for the book. Both are pretty good. I recommed them for anyone who is interested in plants.Samuel Thayer is a great expert in plants and his featuring in the DVD is very clear. it is nice to hear him.

This dvd is very informative and entertaining! I have a lot of confidence that Samuel Thayer knows what he's talking about. I have read both of his books and watched this dvd that parallels the book "Forager's Harvest". When watching someone and listening to them you can get an even better understanding than reading alone, (although the books are very important for thorough descriptions.) For anyone interested in the amazing world around us full of edible plants, I believe you will greatly appreciate this dvd. I hope he makes another dvd to go with his other book "Nature's Garden". In fact I hope he keeps writing too! Samuel Thayer, are you reading this?

I'm going to look for more DVDs by Samuel Thayer. I wish I'd seen this when I used to live in Minnesota. I would have liked to have met him and learned more. This DVD is better than many of the Edible Plants books that I own, and I have more than a dozen.

I really enjoyed the dvd, really learned a lot. Have read a lot of books on this subject But this dvd help me more than all the books. I also recommend buying Samuel's books to go along with this dvd. Though all plants listed are not found in the south but most of them are.

Not nearly as comprehensive or detailed as I had hoped. Covers only about 20 plants, and instead of giving in-depth descriptions or bulletpoints of how to identify them, it shows a wide shot of him gathering plants, often describing elements of collecting you don't see anyway, making a video of the process rather pointless. I at least expected a close-up image of the plants at the beginning or end of the chapter, so we could get a sense of what to look for. What we get is a locked down camera, 15 feet away, while he pulls something green out of the dirt. Slightly more valuable as a collection/preparation guide than anything to help you make identifications.