Kiowa County Public Library District

A botanical description of edible plants in the Rocky Mountain region, with ethnobotanical information about their historical uses and with recipes for cooking and the making of dyes.

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert). Drawing...

Explains what roots and stems do to help plants survive, and includes fun facts, words to know, and two plant-related projects.

Notes on the habitats, biological classification, and identifying characteristics of more than one hundred ferns, trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs accompany instructions on their preparation and uses.

Plants played a principal role in the diets of Native Americans and Canadian First Peoples when Columbus rediscovered the New World. They regularly supplemented meat and fish with wild fruits, nuts, roots, tubers, greens, seeds, beverages, and the like, which were gathered from the land around them.

Brief text and lavish illustrations explain plant reproduction and the purpose of a flower and present some plants which don't seem to be flowers but are.

Provides 49 projects and experiments in the study of plants.