What is Foraging
Find out more about foraging for wild food
What Is Foraging
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Foraging for
wild food is becoming more and more popular as people become more interested in eating
organic and
local fresh food. The UK is a vast larder of shellfish, seaweed, fruit, vegetables, herbs, and mushrooms which are not only edible, but also
delicious, nutritious, and healthy.
Foraging
If you intend to go
foraging all you need is a strong container or basket to carry the food you collect, and ideally an illustrated guide book to help you identify the plants and trees you come across. Great care must be taken to correctly identify
mushrooms as some are very poisonous.
As pocket-sized wild food identifying guides go, you could do a lot worse than the
Collins gem book
Food for Free. With a recommended retail price of £4.99, but usually available for just
£2.99, this 239 page 11 x 8 cm sized book has guides (and images) of over
100 edible plants found in the UK.
Foraging Web Links
Fergus the Forager - Wild Man Wild Food website.
Miles Irving - Wild food supplier.
Article Published: 08:06, 12th Jul 2008
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