DANDELION HUNTER is the new literary nonfiction debut from First Ways writer Rebecca Lerner, an engaging, informative, and entertaining narrative about her adventures learning to forage wild food and medicine in Portland, Oregon, and the wonderfully eccentric friends she learned from along the way. It was published April 2013 by Globe Pequot Press and has already received great reviews:
Publishers Weekly called it “the funniest herbal adventure you’ll ever read.”
Rolling Stone said: “If and when the apocalypse arrives, you’ll want Rebecca Lerner by your side – or, at least, her lucidly written new book, in which she and a pack of endearingly odd Portland pals demonstrate how to take locavorism to a whole new level (and provide some unexpected history, biology and mycology lessons in the process). You’ll never look at weeds the same way again.” — Brian Hiatt, senior writer
To read a free PDF excerpt about the author’s first survival experiment, click here: Download Now
To read another excerpt from the book, about plant consciousness, online, click here.
To order a signed copy with a personalized inscription directly from the author for $19.95 plus shipping, click here. For international orders, including Canada, please click here. Or, you can purchase an unsigned copy from Amazon, Powell’s Books, IndieBound, or your favorite bookseller.
Yellow Dock
Other Published Writing
Essays
“Three Edible Hot Weather Plants” for Discovery Channel’s “The Colony” website July 15, 2010
“Urban Survival Strategies from a Forager” for Discovery Channel’s “The Colony” website July 15, 2010
“Outdoor Plate: An Urban Forager’s Guide to Edible Weeds” for New Connexion: Pacific Northwest’s Journal of Conscious Living May/June 2010
“Stalking the Urban Nettle” for Orion Magazine March/April 2010
“Urban Foraging in Portland” for RealitySandwich.com February 26, 2010
“Redefining the Self In An Age of Collapse” for Evolver October 12, 2009
“How Foraging Can Set You Free” for EarthFirst! Journal June 2009
“How Foraging Can Aid Sustainability” for Culture Change May 23, 2009
A Selection of Green Reporting
“Do-it-yourself herbal” for The Oregonian Nov. 2010
Natural remedies come in handy, an herbalist says
“Take It Outside” for The Ithaca Times Jan. 2008
How does the experience of nature-immersion affect urban children?
“The Great Beyond” for The Ithaca Times Jan. 2008
A guide to keeping warm in the winter woods
“Sour Milk: Big Box Dairy Farms Bring Manure & Misery to Some Central NY Communities” for The Syracuse New Times June 2008
A link between dairy pollution and illness?
“Primitive Skills Offers Sustainable Model” for Culture Change Aug. 2009
What can indigenous ways can teach us about green living?
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Wow…. stumbled upon this site from the tracker’s video..
excellent kung-fu and you seem a strong warrior of the heart….
You’re ideas sound refined so keep up the training…
and thanks for useful plant tips!