Concise Foraging Guide

Description

This practical pocket guide, published in association with the Wildlife Trusts, includes 194 edible fruits, nuts and seeds, flowers, greens and vegetables, herbs, roots, whole plants, fungi, seaweeds and shellfish that you can forage in the UK and Europe. Each species account includes accurate artworks and concise descriptions outlining essential details to help you identify species in the field, as well as information on where you can find species and helpful tips on how to cook and bake with the food you forage. The author's introduction offers practical advice on foraging safely and legally and outlines how to prepare and preserve your foraged foods, including making mead and jam, drying herbs, storing mushrooms for later use and how to safely prepare foraged shellfish.

Tiffany Francis-Baker is a writer, artist and environmentalist from the South Downs in Hampshire. With a mixed background in the arts, rural heritage and conservation, her work is fuelled by a love for the natural world and a passion for protecting it. She writes and illustrates for national publications and has appeared on BBC Radio 4 and Channel 4. Her first colour book Food You Can Forage was published in March 2018 and her nature narrative, Dark Skies, was published in September 2019.

A really handy overview to foraging - great for beginners or if you want to pop it into your pocket to reference during a walk. -- Megan Shersby * Discover Wildlife * [This guide] briefly covers identification and use of 194 species and has the great advantage of being genuinely pocket-sized and covered in protective plastic. * Morning Star *