Simply Living: A Gatherer's Guide to New Zealand's Fields, Forests and Shores. By Gwen Skinner.
Simply Living: A Gatherer's Guide to New Zealand's Fields, Forests and Shores. By Gwen Skinner.
Publisher: Reed 1993.
Very good softback; no inscriptions, minor marks; fading to spine; pages have some foxing to end-papers and some edges. Otherwise very good, binding firm. 144pp.
Simply Living is a guide to the infinite variety of wild foods available in New Zealand - greens, roots, berries, wild and cultivated flowers, shoots mushrooms, fungi, lichens, as well as seaweeds and unusual off-the-beach foods. Many of these are foods, which are, or were once, commercially available in English, European and Oriental market places, or were once used extensively by our early Maoris and European settlers. Sections covering plants fully identified and illustrated, medicines, cosmetics, household hints, home pickling through to wine making.
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