Foraging Pocket Guide: Food for all seasons from Britain's woods, meadows and riversides

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As well as focusing on fruit, nuts and fungi, Squire includes chapters on foraging for seaweed and shellfish, which sets this guide apart from many other ones available. It's a good idea to also explore other well-reviewed options, such as "Food for Free" by Richard Mabey (Collins Gem). If you’d like to file an allegation of infringement, you’ll need to follow the process described in our Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy.

Home to countless animals, insects and plants, hedges are hugely important to the natural ecosystem in the UK, and the opportunity for foragers is enormous. The Wild Food UK Foraging Pocket Guide covers more than 120 species of trees, plants and mushrooms that grow wild in the UK. Discover the edible seasonal delights of the UK’s countryside with this handy, practical field guide.This is the book we wish we had when we started out on our foraging journey and we hope that it will encourage you to discover the wonderful bounty of free food growing all around us. Discover the edible seasonal delights of the UK's countryside with this handy, practical field guide: aromatic wild garlic in the spring, luscious bilberries in late summer, flavoursome blewit mushrooms in the depths of winter, and much more. With a sturdy pocket-sized paperback selected as the chosen format, work began to turn Marlow and Eric’s knowledge and experience into a practical, usable handbook. Without these technologies, things like personalised recommendations, your account preferences, or localisation may not work correctly.

Our first foraging book is exactly what we wish we had when we started out on our foraging journey and we hope that it will encourage you to discover the wonderful bounty of free food growing all around us. These exceptional volumes transcend mere informational resources; they are masterpieces that encapsulate the aesthetic and intrinsic spirit of the United Kingdom's diverse terrains.Having spent a good hour taking a look at the publication we have been astonished by the simple presentation and the knowledge it conveys. He also provides information on the equipment that you may need to bring along on your foraging expeditions.

I can’t recommend this book enough and I can see myself holding on to this book for a long time as I level up in the foraging world! Here, he gives us a lesson in becoming self-sufficient through foraging, walking through the steps involved in finding, storing and preparing food found outdoors. This handy set of Forager’s Pocket Guides creates a fun and convenient way to detail and record your foraging adventures!This book offers a basic introduction to wild medicine: the book is well written and provides good general knowledge for each plant. Meticulously chosen, each book in this distinguished collection offers an immersive odyssey, guiding you through the intricate tapestry of foraging. Over the years, I’ve built up a collection of foraging and wild food books that have helped me gain a broad knowledge of edible species in the UK, Ireland, and the rest of Europe.

Inside, you’ll not only find information and hundreds of photos, but also personal stories from Irving himself. Whenever people ask me what is the best book for foraging and identifying edible plants, I find it difficult to recommend just one. From the lush meadows to the shaded woodlands, each plant tells a story of sustenance and tradition, waiting to be explored and savored. While it's not particularly exhaustive, it does have the common things, and it warns of common lookalikes, which is crucial.As a beginner I will use this book to go out and identify things in the field before I pick anything.