Book excerpt: Foraging is an innate part of human endeavor, and in earlier centuries one essential for survival. Apart from providing food, wild plants yield the fundamental ingredients to produce wine, which, to many people, has a civilizing quality. Detailed in this practical book are wines you can inexpensively make at home. These include: Wines created from flowers Wines produced from fruits Vegetable and root wines Grain, leaf and stem wines Country wines reach back into our ancestry and this book brings them alive in a practical way, enabling everyone to create wines that will enrich family life. "Wines don't have to be made from just grapes. From root to fruit, let this book be your guide to a whole world of country wines to discover. Learn how easy and satisfying it is to capture nature's bounty in a bottle while harvesting your own ingredients from your backyard and beyond for your own homemade country wines" —Brad Ring, Publisher, WineMaker magazine, www.winemakermag.com.