The Forager's Deluxe Kit

This foraging kit gives you not just the tools you need to get the job done, but also some outstanding publications to further your knowledge of Foraging for Wild Foods, Blanching & Dehydration guidelines, and how to manage Living A Year Without the Grocery Store. 

HORI-HORI GARDEN TOOL

Features of the Hori-Hori Garden Tool:

• Durable Full-Tang Blade: Stainless steel increases the overall strength and reality of the hori-hori knife. Full-tang design ensures that the blade will not snap off when used for heavy-duty gardening tasks, such as cutting, turning over, and removing sharp stones and rocks. Attractive mirror polished sheen improves its corrosion resistance and makes cleaning easy.
• Convenient Double-edge Blade: The 12.5″ versatile garden knife makes gardening, harvesting, or planting an enjoyable thing, not tedious work. The hori-hori knife has a straight edge and a serrated edge. The individual serrations act as a saw to help you cut through hard roots, slim tree branches, rope, fertilizer, and feed bags.
• 6” Measuring Tools and Concave Blade: The blade has significant, easy-to-read markings and graduations in both inches and millimeters, which helps you to effectively measure out soil when replanting your favorite seedlings or cuttings at the correct depth.
• Comfortable Handle: The wooden handle is securely riveted onto the blade with 3 rivets, allowing you to maintain an excellent secure grip in challenging soil and garden conditions. The handle even has a small hole on the end for the application of a lanyard of your choice.
  
• Easy Carry Sheath: The brown leather sheath comes with a belt loop secured by two rivets and a snap enclosure around the handle to keep your knife from accidental loss while you work your garden.
  
• Sharpening Stone: This Hori Hori knife also comes with a small rectangular sharpening stone to keep an efficient edge for those thicker roots that might present a challenge.

PRUNING SHEARS

Foraging for edible or medicinal plants can be an enjoyable process, provided you have the right tools combined with the essential knowledge. We always recommend reading publications like the , the , and the  simply because these are three of the finest books available on the market. Knowledge is Step #1.

Step #2 is having the right tools! A quality set of these Pruning Shears are a necessity when working with flora & fauna. 

FEATURES:

• Soft & Comfortable PVCS Coated Handle
  
• Spring Design for easy retraction
• Safety Buckle for keeping closed
• Stainless Steel
• Overall Length: 6.9"
• Weight: 3.5 oz.

WAXED CANVAS FORAGING POUCH

This Waxed Canvas Foraging Pouch conveniently attaches to your belt for quick and easy access and folds away nicely to be out of the way when not in use. While foraging the woods you can put your findings in this bag to carry back to camp. Simple design, quality leather work and extremely useful for tasks such as collecting tinder sources and wild edibles.

• Folded dimensions: 4.25" x 3.25" x 1.25"
• Opened dimensions: 8.5" x 9.1" x 0.4"
• Snap closure
• Canvas construction
• Color: Green

A YEAR WITHOUT THE GROCERY STORE

Strapped for cash? Provide your family with a year’s worth of food for $160 per, person per year. I’ll show you how. I’ll walk you through a step by step plan which:

• Incorporate the meals that your family already loves

• Takes into account your family’s unique food allergies, intolerance aspects & preferences.

• Teaches you how to economically store food your family loves.

• Provides you with simple recipes using basic ingredients to make comfort foods that your family craves.

Discusses alternate ways to cook your food storage in case you encounter an extended power outage.

• Instructs you how to safely store and use stored water.

• Points out pitfalls and holes in most people’s food storage and crafts a plan for how to avoid them.

Discover the top four food storage items most people miss.

SELF-SUFFICIENCY FORAGING FOR WILD FOODS

Learn how to harvest a bounty of wild edible foods with this comprehensive introduction to foraging.

• Edible wild plants
• Popular wayside kitchen herbs
• Wild fruits
• Wild nuts
• Mushrooms, truffles, and other edible fungi
• Seaweeds
• Shellfish

Harvest wild plants, herbs, fruits, nuts, mushrooms, seaweeds, and shellfish with this comprehensive and well-illustrated introduction to foraging. Foraging for wild food is growing more and more popular as people become increasingly interested in eating not only organic but also local fresh food - for free.

BLANCHING AND DEHYDRATION

A handy document developed by our friends over at Survival Chicks. This publication provides you with the basics of blanching vegetables for extending their shelf life. A simple 6-step diagram illustrating the step-by-step  process for transforming your veggies right before your eyes!

Also includes recommended blanching time for:

• Asparagus
• Green Beans
• Broccoli
• Carrots
• Cauliflower
• Corn
• Onions
• Peas
• ...and many more!

Dehydrating veggies, fruits and meats using your oven is easier than you think. With simple bullet-pointed steps to follow there is no doubt that you'll be a pro at dehydrating in the comfort of your own home in no time!