From the Wild

From the Wild is a herbal medicine cookbook offering a simple, resourceful, nature-based approach to healthy living. Qualified naturopath and medical herbalist Heidi Merika draws on her decades of experience to create delicious, nutritious, plant-based recipes and healing home remedies from 30 of the world's most common edible wild plants, from cat's ear to cobbler's pegs, dandelion to dock, and nasturtium to wild raspberry. Enjoy over 100 recipes including a spring salad full of wild edibles, nettle gnocchi verde and clover muffins, along with lantana itch balm, chickweed anti-inflammatory gel and St John's wort pain ointment. Including information on plant identification and foraging safely and sustainably, From the Wild is all you need to forage, cook and eat wild foods for abundant health.

Heidi Merika is a qualified naturopath and medical herbalist with a passion for wild medicinal and nutritional plants. She has lectured in nutrition and herbal medicine at RMIT University, Endeavour College of Natural Health and the University of the Sunshine Coast. With more than two decades of industry experience, she has also been running courses and workshops on plant medicine, wildcrafting, herbal medicine and plant-based nutrition both in person and online since 2012. She was involved in the menopause program at Melbourne's Royal Women's Hospital and is a regular guest speaker at conferences and gatherings. Her work combines her knowledge of natural health as it relates to nutrition, medicine, spiritual growth, environmentalism, creativity and the joy of living. Her first book, Wildcraft: The Science and Spirit of Wild Plants as Food and Medicine, was published in 2019. She lives on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

Introduction Part 1: Wildcrafting  Welcome to wildcrafting Part 2: Using wild plants for food & medicine Medicine-making fundamentals Herb guide Equipment Ingredients & raw materials Part 3: Recipes Amaranth Asthma weed Blackberry nightshade Blue top Broadleaf plantain Cat's ear Chickweed Chinese mugwort Cleavers Clover, white Cobbler's pegs Dandelion Dock Fat hen Fennel Gotu kola Herb robert Lantana Mallow Nasturtium Nettle Nodding top Oxalis Prickly pear Purslane Ribwort Sow thistle St John's wort Tropical chickweed Wild raspberry References Acknowledgements Index