Rare Harvest: A Field Guide to Foraging, Farming, and Reclaiming Your Connection to the Earth

The forager, urban farmer, and NatGeo star shares this beautiful, practical field guide and primer to the ethics of caring for the land.

With this indispensable, practical resource in the garden, in the field, and in the wild, learn the basics of foraging, as well as the “whys” of foraging and self-reliance. In a country with overflowing grocery store shelves, why should we learn to find, identify, grow, and harvest our own food?

With Indy’s wisdom and guidance, learn:

  • common foraging and farming identification terms
  • how to measure and ID specimens
  • recipes featuring the plants, mushrooms, and seaweeds introduced here
  • culinary and medicinal applications
  • the stories behind the plants; how they came to grow where they are
  • sociocultural and economic considerations
  • and so much more.

Rare Harvest is the field guide for an ethical meal, from forest to farm, from person to plate. Foraging and growing food is more than a hobby, a trend, or a pastime—it is the answer to the preservation of humankind.

Whether you live in a food desert, in the suburbs, on a rural farm, or in a high-rise in the heart of the city, your personal and genetic story is interwoven with the story of the foods you eat. By way of being human, you are already a farmer. To uncover your innate ability to grow and find food is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.

Rare Harvest features black-and-white botanical illustrations throughout.


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Rare Harvest: A Field Guide to Foraging, Farming, and Reclaiming Your Connection to the Earth

The forager, urban farmer, and NatGeo star shares this beautiful, practical field guide and primer to the ethics of caring for the land.

With this indispensable, practical resource in the garden, in the field, and in the wild, learn the basics of foraging, as well as the “whys” of foraging and self-reliance. In a country with overflowing grocery store shelves, why should we learn to find, identify, grow, and harvest our own food?

With Indy’s wisdom and guidance, learn:

  • common foraging and farming identification terms
  • how to measure and ID specimens
  • recipes featuring the plants, mushrooms, and seaweeds introduced here
  • culinary and medicinal applications
  • the stories behind the plants; how they came to grow where they are
  • sociocultural and economic considerations
  • and so much more.

Rare Harvest is the field guide for an ethical meal, from forest to farm, from person to plate. Foraging and growing food is more than a hobby, a trend, or a pastime—it is the answer to the preservation of humankind.

Whether you live in a food desert, in the suburbs, on a rural farm, or in a high-rise in the heart of the city, your personal and genetic story is interwoven with the story of the foods you eat. By way of being human, you are already a farmer. To uncover your innate ability to grow and find food is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.

Rare Harvest features black-and-white botanical illustrations throughout.


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Rare Harvest: A Field Guide to Foraging, Farming, and Reclaiming Your Connection to the Earth

Rare Harvest: A Field Guide to Foraging, Farming, and Reclaiming Your Connection to the Earth

by Indy Srinath
Rare Harvest: A Field Guide to Foraging, Farming, and Reclaiming Your Connection to the Earth

Rare Harvest: A Field Guide to Foraging, Farming, and Reclaiming Your Connection to the Earth

by Indy Srinath

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The forager, urban farmer, and NatGeo star shares this beautiful, practical field guide and primer to the ethics of caring for the land.

With this indispensable, practical resource in the garden, in the field, and in the wild, learn the basics of foraging, as well as the “whys” of foraging and self-reliance. In a country with overflowing grocery store shelves, why should we learn to find, identify, grow, and harvest our own food?

With Indy’s wisdom and guidance, learn:

  • common foraging and farming identification terms
  • how to measure and ID specimens
  • recipes featuring the plants, mushrooms, and seaweeds introduced here
  • culinary and medicinal applications
  • the stories behind the plants; how they came to grow where they are
  • sociocultural and economic considerations
  • and so much more.

Rare Harvest is the field guide for an ethical meal, from forest to farm, from person to plate. Foraging and growing food is more than a hobby, a trend, or a pastime—it is the answer to the preservation of humankind.

Whether you live in a food desert, in the suburbs, on a rural farm, or in a high-rise in the heart of the city, your personal and genetic story is interwoven with the story of the foods you eat. By way of being human, you are already a farmer. To uncover your innate ability to grow and find food is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.

Rare Harvest features black-and-white botanical illustrations throughout.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780063439382
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 06/23/2026
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 320

About the Author

Indy Officinalis is a Los Angeles-based urban farmer empowering communities through access to land and food.

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