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ORGANIC FIELD GUIDE ORGANIC FIELD GUIDE
COMMON EDIBLE PLANTS GROW IT EAT IT LOVE IT
GROW IT EAT IT LOVE IT
The essence of this field guide is to provide you accessible
health through the backyard garden. Any good local nursery
can easily understand and guide you to a seed rack, a 4-inch
container or a fruit tree in a 5-gallon bucket to get you started.
Instead of the Latin botanical names that are correct and give
an air of proper taxonomic designation, we use the simple
common names that Uncle Joseph or Aunt Rosette may have
mentioned at Thanksgiving dinner. You can easily remember
and repeat the names to the local nursery or farmers market
seller to grow or buy that plant with ease and no further
reference. You might call this “gardening for the rest of us.”
The list aims to cover the top 100 fruits, vegetables and herbs
that you can easily find at most nurseries across the United
States that will grow in most regions.
The list is easy to use and understand. With more than 80,000
edible plants around the earth, even an extensive encyclopedia
set and 50 years of research could not cover them all. Instead,
the list is practical, because it covers 100 plants you can grow
that a good independent nursery will have the seeds or plants
for you to buy.
Each plant listing begins with the nutritional value of the
plant (its health power and disease prevention qualities) as far
as we know it. We can know something is good for us even if
we don’t yet understand the exact mechanism of how it works.
The next part tells the practical details of how to grow it.
Be healthy and grow as many as you can. The rest you can
let your local organic gardener grow for you. Remember to
buy heirloom varieties as often as you can and avoid
genetically engineered seeds. Eat fresh and live long with
vibrancy and energy.
Disclaimer of Liability
100 Plants You
Can Grow & Eat
This book offers information and recommendations
on the general relationships among food, human and
animal health, and disease prevention. Some information
is based on the author’s personal and professional
experiences. Additional information on the composition
and contents of foods and the results of research on
the health effects of various foods in one’s diet come
from sources the author and publisher believe to be
reputable and accurate. However, each person has his
or her unique biochemical makeup and health
history. Whether the reader should use any
fact, recommendation or inference in this
book as a guide to his or her own health
or the health of any other person
is strictly a matter of personal
choice and responsibility.
Results may vary from one
person to another. THIS
BOOK IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE
FOR QUALIFIED MEDICAL
DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT.
The author and publisher take
no responsibility and cannot be
held liable for the consequences
to the reader of acting or failing to
act on anything written here.
For Health and Well-Being
HEALTHY
RECIPES
DOZENS OF
TO TRY
We cannot always build the
future for our youth, but we can
build our youth for the future.
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt