wild foods

A guide to edible wild plants that provides more than two hundred photographs, descriptions, and tips for identification; offers information on harvesting and preparing; and includes a foraging calendar.

Set in an ominously prescient near future, The Words in My Hand is the story of Piper: sixteen, smart, artistic, and rebellious, she?s struggling to conform to what her mom wants?for her to be ?normal,? to pass as hearing, and get a good job. But in a time of food scarcity, environmental collapse, and political corruption, Piper has other things on her mind?like survival. Deaf since the age of three, Piper has always been told that she needs to compensate in a world that puts those who can hear above everyone else. But when she meets Marley, a whole new world opens up?one where Deafness is something to celebrate rather than hide, and where resilience and hope are created by taking action, building a community, and believing in something better.

"Near-future Australia is controlled by Organicore, a company that produces the 'perfectly balanced' synthetic meals that have all but replaced wild food, but Piper McBride, 16, deaf, and cued white, begins to wonder if wild food is as dangerous as Organicore's propaganda says"--BTCat.

Provides tips on how to find edible food while in the wilderness.

Provides descriptions of each part of seventy common wild plants, including leaves, stalks, flowers, fruit, seeds, and roots; and features information about the medicinal and practical uses of each specimen. Includes photographs and illustrations.