Forgot to note that the nutcracker separates the nut from the shell. I'd also need a flour mill.

Best bet is to buy a couple books, pick a handfull of different species to gather, study them and learn how to identify them, once your confident with those move on to the next handfull. Hope this helps a bit.

Anyone know of a more advanced list of plants in nova Scotia. Mainly looking for the food side . Looking for books webpages or ppl that can providet more advanced info.

Heres a list of books i have that i found useful:

Edible Wild Plants Of Nova Scotia
by Heather Macleod and Barbara Macdonald
Published by the Nova Scotia Museum
This is an older book so try used book stores if chapters is no help
the rest can be found or ordered through chapters

Wild Pants of Eastern Canada
by Marilyn Walker
Nimbus publishing

Edible & Medicinal Plants of Canada
By Mackinnon, Kershaw
Lone Pine Publishing

Peterson Field Guide
Edible Wild Plants of Eastern/Central North America
by Lee Allen Peterson
Published by Houghton Mifflin

I suggest reading books apose to the internet because you can take the books with you and be absolutely sure what your looking at.
My two cents
Hope this helps.

Just be carefull. Use multiple books with clear, large photos. Not pictures...and only use a book that also tells you about lookalikepoison plants and more inportant, Side effects. Exsample, fiddle heads are eddible and were once found in the frozen food isle. They are also toxic if you eat alot of them. I bring this all up because I poisoned myself once when I was new at it because of somthing I thought I remembered. Lucky for me, the effects wore off in about 3 hours. Some will kill you slowly over a period of weeks. So only eat what you can clearly identify. Sorry I cant help with local reccomendations. My knowledge was in BC plants. Many are the same but I can no longer fool myself into thinking Im an expert

Some of the plants list as poisonous are because they are easily misidentified or can only be consumed after certain preparation. Like fiddleheads will give you the shits or nausea if not cooked hard boiled for 17min. And they taste like eating dirt not cold soaked over night. Told to me by a grower in New Brunswick. and if you had to survive off them they can strip you of some essential vitamins. Certain mushrooms will make you sick if consumed with carbonated beverages. The carbonic acid creates a reaction that can be deadly. I've eaten properly prepared mushroom that are said to be poisonous with no ill effect. But with proper identification and preparation ie good books and first hand knowledge is very important. Our ancestor had little rhymes to teach children like "leaves of three leave it be". There's a naughty poem about the queen's hairy legs. which actually refers to distinguishing the queen anne lace (edible wild carrot) from poison hemlock. Unfortunately alot of the passed on knowledge is lost and isn't in the best wild edibles books. preplacing wild food is essential. Getting properly identified wild carrots and planting it in a patch and eat it now so that you know when you have to that it will be safe. The mi'kmaq new where and what to look for, Shubenacadie is mikmaq for where the groundnuts grow. I've also asked mi'kmaq friends what a ground nut looks like and they don't know. I've researched them and they are a wild pea which the mi'kmaq used the leaves medicinally (not sure for what) and the roots(ground nut) like potaotoes, some translations of Shubenacadie say "ground potatoes". I've found some growing at a friends cottage, I will see If I can preplace them and eat the roots while the ER is still open 😯

Heres a list of books i have that i found useful:

Edible Wild Plants Of Nova Scotia
by Heather Macleod and Barbara Macdonald
Published by the Nova Scotia Museum
This is an older book so try used book stores if chapters is no help
the rest can be found or ordered through chapters

Wild Pants of Eastern Canada
by Marilyn Walker
Nimbus publishing

Edible & Medicinal Plants of Canada
By Mackinnon, Kershaw
Lone Pine Publishing

Peterson Field Guide
Edible Wild Plants of Eastern/Central North America
by Lee Allen Peterson
Published by Houghton Mifflin

I suggest reading books apose to the internet because you can take the books with you and be absolutely sure what your looking at.
My two cents
Hope this helps.

excellent choices , I have some myself, I also find old books preww2 or in that era are useful as well.