The North American Wild Food Survival Bible: 500+ Edible Plants - Identify, Forage, Hunt, Trap & Preserve Wild Food Safely with Look-Alike Warnings & 150+ Step-by-Step Recipes

North America's most toxic plant looks a lot like wild carrot and grows in wet ditches beside plants you can eat. A single bite of its root can kill. Knowing the difference is not optional. In just two weeks in December 2016, poison control in Northern California handled 14 death cap mushroom poisonings. Three patients needed liver transplants, one of them a toddler. The mushrooms had been picked by people who believed they knew what they were looking at, or handed on by someone who did. The North American Wild Food Survival Bible is built around one rule: positive identification first, every time. It shows you how to find, identify, harvest, hunt, catch, and cook more than 500 wild foods across the United States and Canada, and it puts the dangerous look-alike right beside each one, before you ever reach for it. Inside, you will learn how to: Identify 540 wild foods: greens, roots, berries, nuts, flowers, tree foods, seaweeds, desert plants, mushrooms, game, birds, fish, shellfish, and insects. Tell edibles from their toxic twins, with a Look-Alike Risk rating (Low, Moderate, High) on every plant and mushroom entry. Recognize 26 of the most dangerous plants and fungi, including water hemlock, poison hemlock, death camas, death cap, and false morel. Find what grows near you using seven wild food regions, from the Northeast woods and Desert Southwest to the Pacific Coast and the Boreal North. Make water safe to drink before you worry about food, and plan calories, protein, and fat so you don't starve on a full stomach of greens. Snare, trap, and fish with simple gear, then field dress, butcher, and use the whole animal. Cook over fire and preserve your harvest by drying, smoking, salting, canning, freezing, and making pemmican. Understand the Universal Edibility Test: how it works, and why it is a true last resort. 155 step-by-step wild recipes From stinging nettle soup, acorn quick bread, and cattail pollen pancakes to hunter's venison stew, plank-roasted salmon, chanterelle risotto, spruce tip syrup, and no-gear trail rations. Each recipe lists yield, prep time, and season, with safe cooking temperatures for game, birds, and fish. Built for the field, not the shelf Every entry follows the same layout: regions, season, edible parts, how to identify, look-alikes, and how to prepare, so you can check a plant in seconds. The book also includes: A Four-Season Wild Food Calendar A 30-Day Wild Food Survival Plan Quick-ID charts of edible plants and their toxic look-alikes A harvest table, a gear checklist, a glossary, and a full index of wild foods A foraging, hunting, and fishing law checklist, to help you check the rules before you harvest Whether you are a hiker, hunter, homesteader, prepper, or simply curious about the food growing at the edge of your yard, this is a single reference that covers plants, mushrooms, fish, and game together, with safety on every page. Learn the land before you need it. Scroll up and grab your copy today.