In this beautiful, educational and fun slide presentation, Dr. Kallas shows how to identify, harvest and prepare nutritious, delicious, and abundant edible wild plants found within walking distance of your kitchen. He shows you features that make for effective learning in any wild food book. And ends with a short video.
This presentation is a sampling of the content of John Kallas’ book: Edible Wild Plants: Wild foods From Dirt to Plate. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer period and a book signing.
Edible Wild Plants is ground-breaking: It’s the first book to make wild foods understandable and usable by the general public—including gardeners, chefs, dieters, home cooks and nutrition-minded consumers. John makes it fun and easy to learn about foods you’ve unknowingly passed by all your life. He gives you the knowledge and confidence to finally begin eating and enjoying these foods.
This book focuses on abundant and nutritious wild greens, vegetables and seeds eaten by our European ancestors. The same plants are found throughout North America. These healthy wild foods are the core of the true Mediterranean Diet. This book reveals how easy it is to incorporate these foods into everyday modern life.
To learn about a workshop that John is teaching in the afternoon, go here.
John Kallas has investigated edible wild plants since 1970 and taught about them since 1978. A trained botanist, nature photographer, writer, researcher, and teacher, Dr. Kallas has a doctorate in Nutrition, a Masters in Education, and majors in Biology and Natural Science. He founded Wild Food Adventures, The Institute for the Study of Edible Wild Plants & Other Foragables in 1993 and was the primary writer and editor of the Wild Food Adventurer newsletter. He published Edible Wild Plants: Wild foods From Dirt to Plate in 2010; volume 1 of his book series. For more information about John, go here.
