TWO NEW BOOKS  
Edible Wild Plants & Useful Herbs
TIP: Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) may be eaten eight or nine months a year.  As the season progress clip the top whorl of leaves, they are new, tender: Saute, stir fry, steam or blend into soups, Try it on pizza, make stinging nettle lasagna. Nettles draw minerals from the soil and are an excellent food source of vitamins, minerals and trace elements.
 
   Price:  $8.95        
                    It's a Falcon Guide!

        CONTENT

Jim Meuninck's new field guide has more plants, more recipes, bigger color photos identifying over a 120 edible and medicinal plants.  The book contains Jim's "Forager's Dozen"...It documents Native American, Chinese, Pioneer and modern pharmaceutical uses of wild plants.

There are special sections on poisonous plants and poisonous look-alikes. New sections explore Jim's favorite edible wild flowers, his favorite wild foods found along the shoreline and in the inter-tidal zones.  Also, discover the benefits of bioflavonoids and other phytochemicals as Jim explains how wild plants keep him healthy.

Key Benefits...
  • Color photos for accurate field identification.
  • Excellent companion book for his Edible Wild Plants and Trees, Shrubs, Nuts & Berries videos.
  • Indexed, with a huge appendix of recommended books, videos and other wild plant resources.
  • Inexpensive edible wild plants guide with color photos.
    PLUS EXPANDED RECIPE SECTION!

    Book/color photos/indexed/copyright 2007 Author Jim Meuninck

Pricing       $8.95
 
TIP:  Devil's Club (Oplopanax horridus) related to ginseng, is a Northwest rain forest plant armed with thorns. A most important medicinal plant of West Coast First People, the plant is still used in rituals. Berries are rubbed in hair to kill lice. The inner bark is chewed raw as a purgative. A traditional decoction of the inner bark is used to relieve bowel cramps and to treat arthritis and stomach ulcers. 
 
   Price:  $18.95    
                      It's a Falcon Guide!

        CONTENT

Jim Meuninck's Medicinal Plants of North America explores what works. He covers identification, location, food uses, traditional uses, modern (proven) pharmaceutical uses, wildlife uses, Veterinarian uses with a special section providing timely field notes: useful tips and helpful insights that he has gained from a lifetime of studying medicinal plants. 

Between the covers Jim explains the basics of herbal preparations, how to make your own decoctions, infusions, tinctures, percolations and the like.  The book is divided into regions or biomes: Medicinal Plants of Yards, Prairies, Roadsides, Meadows, Wetlands, Desserts, Mountain States and Coastal varieties. 

Key Benefits...
  • Color photos for accurate field identification.
  • Excellent companion book for his new Edible Wild Plants lll DVD..
  • Indexed, with a huge appendix of recommended books, videos and other wild plant resources.
  • Inexpensive medicinal plants guide with color photos.
    Fully documented.  Indexed. With an introduction and appendices covering longevity, German Commission E explained, potent herbal teas, how plant chemical work and much more.

    Book/color photos/indexed/copyright 2008 Author Jim Meuninck

Pricing       $18.95