Survival Dispatch Insider Vol. 4 Issue 1: Foraging

The woods, the desert and your own back yard are full of food, and a few plants that will kill you. Issue 1 of Volume 4 is 98 pages on telling them apart and eating well from the land all year.

Inside: ten rules for safe foraging, positive identification, eating the right part the right way, limiting new foods, avoiding contaminated ground and cooking aquatic plants; how to read a plant, woody or fleshy, flower forms, fruit and leaf patterns, and why you learn the scientific name; the deadly look-alikes, grapes or moonseed, carrot or hemlock, nightshades, lilies versus onions; regional wild foods from cranberry and wild rice to saguaro, prickly pear, blue camas and arrowhead; roots, berries and nuts, including how to spot a bad nut and the horse chestnut; salad greens and cooked greens; the plants you should never touch (poison ivy, oak and sumac, giant hogweed) and never eat (water hemlock, white hellebore, Virginia creeper), and what to do if poisoned; a season-by-season foraging calendar; foraging myths that get people killed; preparing and drying what you gather; and gear including foraging bags, a hori-hori knife and a picking apron.

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