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Volume II: 40 More Plants the Record Left Behind.
Traced from archive to lab to the ground outside your door.

A chestnut that once fed Appalachia, a native tea renamed with a Latin word for vomit, a bark that gave the world its best-selling medicine. Forty chapters, every claim checked against its source.

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Nature's Lost Vault Volume II ebook cover, a grid of botanical plates around the title The Suppressed Plants That Could Feed and Heal the World

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📚 40 Research Chapters 📄 559 Pages 🎨 80 Illustrations 🔬 Fully Sourced Bibliography

What's Inside Volume II

Thirty-five plants were never going to be enough, so we went back into the pharmacopoeias, seed catalogs and court records and came back with forty more. No plant here appears in Volume I.

How every chapter is built

  • The Opening and the Erasure: what was lost, when, and who benefited.
  • The Science They Buried: what modern research actually shows.
  • The Quiet Return: who kept the knowledge alive.
  • Reclaiming the Plant: identify, grow, harvest, use, and the cautions.
  • The Choice: what the story asks of us now.

Five parts: The Lost Harvest · The Wild Table · The Apothecary Garden · Medicine of the Forest · The Forgotten Orchards Return

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Part I

The Lost Harvest

Staple grains, nuts and perennial vegetables that once filled granaries and gardens.

  • Amaranth Amaranthus spp.
  • American Chestnut Castanea dentata
  • Honey Locust Gleditsia triacanthos
  • Camelina Camelina sativa
  • Salsify Tragopogon porrifolius
  • Sea Kale Crambe maritima
  • Walking Onion Allium × proliferum
  • Daylily Hemerocallis fulva
Part II

The Wild Table

Foraged greens and edible flowers growing in ditches, lawns and forest edges.

  • Chicory Cichorium intybus
  • Sheep Sorrel Rumex acetosella
  • Sow Thistle Sonchus oleraceus
  • Cleavers Galium aparine
  • Wild Violet Viola sororia / V. odorata
  • Wild Garlic Allium vineale / A. canadense
  • Eastern Redbud Cercis canadensis
  • Ostrich Fern Matteuccia struthiopteris
Part III

The Apothecary Garden

Healing herbs that filled pharmacopoeias before they were written out of them.

  • Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • Mullein Verbascum thapsus
  • Boneset Eupatorium perfoliatum
  • Lemon Balm Melissa officinalis
  • Motherwort Leonurus cardiaca
  • California Poppy Eschscholzia californica
  • St. John's Wort Hypericum perforatum
  • Milk Thistle Silybum marianum
  • Self-Heal Prunella vulgaris
Part IV

Medicine of the Forest

Trees, fungi and lichens that carried medicine long before the laboratory did.

  • White Willow Salix alba
  • Hawthorn Crataegus spp.
  • Ginkgo Ginkgo biloba
  • Sassafras Sassafras albidum
  • Yaupon Holly Ilex vomitoria
  • Chaga Inonotus obliquus
  • Reishi Ganoderma lucidum
  • Usnea Usnea spp.
Part V

The Forgotten Orchards Return

Wild fruits and berries that never fit the supermarket, and never needed to.

  • Elderberry Sambucus nigra / S. canadensis
  • Sea Buckthorn Hippophae rhamnoides
  • American Persimmon Diospyros virginiana
  • Mulberry Morus spp.
  • Rose Hip Rosa canina
  • Hardy Kiwi Actinidia arguta
  • Staghorn Sumac Rhus typhina

Look Inside

Real spreads, exactly as in the PDF. Tap any page to read it larger.

Volume II spread: California poppy botanical plate facing the chapter opening, The Flower That Goes to Sleep
California poppy: plate and chapter opening
Volume II spread: The Erasure of Reishi timeline and The Science They Buried, with a box listing what the trials actually show
Reishi: timeline and what the evidence shows
Volume II spread: ginkgo leaf extract compared with donepezil in clinical trials, facing the ginkgo then-and-now illustration
Ginkgo: the trials compared, then and now
Volume II spread: Reclaiming Ginkgo, with how to identify, grow, harvest and use it, and a list of cautions
Reclaiming ginkgo: identify, grow, use, cautions
Volume II spread: Part IV opener, Medicine of the Forest, facing the white willow botanical plate
Part IV opener and the white willow plate
Volume II table of contents listing all 40 chapters in five parts
The full Volume II contents

40 botanical plates and 40 then-and-now scenes

Amaranth botanical plate showing the red grain plume, seeds, seed cross-section and fibrous roots
Amaranth (Amaranthus spp.)
American chestnut botanical plate with the full tree, catkins, spiny burr and shelled nuts
American Chestnut (Castanea dentata)
California poppy botanical plate with orange flowers, feathery blue-green leaves, seed pods and taproot
California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
Elderberry botanical plate with flat white flower heads, clusters of dark berries and the shrub's root system
Elderberry (Sambucus nigra)
Ginkgo botanical plate with fan-shaped leaves, yellow seeds, the inner nut and the young tree
Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)
Reishi botanical plate with glossy red-brown shelf fungi growing from a hardwood log and the pale pore surface
Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum)
Sea buckthorn botanical plate with dense orange berries on thorny branches, narrow silver leaves and roots
Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides)
Wild violet botanical plate with purple flowers, heart-shaped leaves, seed capsules and rhizome
Wild Violet (Viola sororia)
Two-panel illustration of the American chestnut: an Appalachian family gathering chestnuts into sacks under a mature tree, and researchers today bagging chestnut flowers and planting seedlings in tree tubes
American Chestnut: the Appalachian harvest, and the breeding orchards working to bring the tree back.
Two-panel illustration of yaupon holly: Indigenous people serving the brewed drink to Spanish soldiers, and growers today harvesting the leaves and pouring yaupon tea
Yaupon Holly: North America's native caffeine, then and now.
Two-panel illustration of white willow: an eighteenth-century clergyman handing out willow bark to villagers, and workers today planting willow cuttings by a river and stripping bark
White Willow: the bark behind the world's best-selling medicine.

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What Volume I Readers Say

4.5 out of 5 from 22 reviews of Volume I  ·  1,000+ copies of Volume I in readers' hands

From Volume I readers on our previous store. Volume II is new, so its reviews are still to come.

I really appreciate the drawings of the plant, tree, fungus or root at the beginning of each description. … The sections are relatively short and to the point. … Most importantly the book will tell you if there is a poisonous plant that can be mistaken for the desired plant. This book is a must have for not only the forager but the curious and the unaware.

Frank T.

Michigan, USA · October 2026 · Volume I

The book in either form (ebook and paperback) is amazing. There is so much information inside. I can't help but be amazed at everything it covers. We have truly lost so many useful plants. Thank you so much for your work.

Josee P.

Quebec, Canada · June 2026 · Volume I

I learned a lot, thank you for the research and publishing! I ordered some of the seeds, did a bit further research, and have gathered what I will need for planting some before winter, others for starting indoors in March, and next spring's sowing.

Lois H.

Idaho, USA · August 2026 · Volume I

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About the BEST book covering Alternative Food & Medicinal Plants. Comprehensive, covering nutritional values, Growing, Harvesting, Sourcing, et al.

Neal S.

Nevada, USA · July 2026 · Volume I

I'm Cherokee and a lot of these articles my Grandmother taught me. It brings back treasures of years I've not thought about until I received [your] book. Thank You

Linda C.

Florida, USA · July 2026 · Volume I

I have a lot of books about herbs but not like this. I love the history you read about the plants. Very positive first impression.

Mark

Netherlands · March 2026 · Volume I

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Questions, Answered Honestly

What exactly do I get?
Volume II comes as a PDF and an EPUB, one purchase for both. The PDF keeps the full page layout with the plates, timelines and evidence boxes; the EPUB reflows to fit e-readers and phones. It is an ebook only; there is no print edition at the moment.
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Can I print it?
Yes, for your own use. The PDF prints on ordinary home paper; choose "fit to page" in your print settings. Most readers print only the chapters they want to take into the garden or the kitchen, since Volume II runs to 559 pages.
Is this a foraging guide?
Not on its own. Every chapter ends with a practical section on finding, growing and using the plant, with lookalikes and cautions where they matter. But the books are histories and evidence reviews first. Before you eat anything wild, check it against a field guide for your region and, ideally, someone who knows your local plants.
Is this medical advice? Are the plants safe to use?
No, it is not medical advice. The books document how these plants were used and what research shows, including where the evidence is weak or negative. Some plants interact with medicines or are unsafe in pregnancy, and the chapters flag the cautions we found. Talk to a qualified health professional before using any plant as medicine.
I bought Volume I. Do I get Volume II?
Yes. Volume I buyers receive Volume II free by email. If it has not reached you, reply to your order email, or use the questions form below with the address you ordered with, and we will send it.
Do I need Volume I first?
No. Each volume stands on its own, and no plant appears in both. Read them in any order.
What if it is not for me?
Read it for 30 days. If it is not for you, reply to your order email, or use the questions form below, and we refund every cent, back to the card you paid with. You keep the books.
Elderberry botanical plate from Volume II, with flat white flower heads and clusters of dark berries
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