The Uses of Wild Plants is a unique guide to the useful wild plants of North AInerica. How they were used in the past, how they can be used today and how they might be used in the future. Features: a comprehensive guide to North American edible wild plants, how they were used by Native Americans, European settlers, and people from other cultures - and how they can be used today in salads, ice creams, potherbs, beers, breads and other foods; how wild plants have been used for healing in the pas, how they are used today as sources of antiseptics, painkillers, sedatives, contraceptives, heart medicines and other drugs, as well as how plants can enhance your health by providing superior nutrition; a guide to the everyday industrial, commercial and home uses of wild plants, such as soaps, clothing, building materials, fuel, perfumes, craft materials, glue and a multitude of other uses; how wild plants may one day help us to create a sustainable society, by providing new crops for food, medicine, fuels, renewable energy chemicals and building materials; how they can be used to treat polluted water, desalinate soil, clean polluted groundwater, recover valuable nutrients from waste, and maybe even reduce global warming; and a guide to the cultivation of wild plants, and how they may be used around the garden, homestead and farm for fertilizers, fence-posts, fencing, hedges, mulch, screens, erosion control, green manures, insecticides and other purposes.