Foraging: Top 25 Edible Plants Guide - Cremona and Harper

What better way to enjoy the outdoors than to go and find your own food for free? Foraging for wild food makes a walk into the most pleasurable and satisfying experience - and can become rather addictive. This fun activity is also a fabulous way of getting children engaged with nature, creating childhood memories filled with picking and eating blackberries. This is an essential resource to take on a family walk or for Forest Schools. 

This guide covers the top 25 most common and tasty plants that can be found from just outside your front door. The illustrations and table are designed to give you confidence in clearly identifying these species, as well as some common lookalikes which it is essential not to confuse them with. For example common sorrel Rumex acetosa (delicious in a salad) compared with Lords-and-ladies Arum maculatum (could burn the mouth). This adage is best: when in doubt, leave it out. 

Clare Cremona is a Forest School and Wildlife Watch Leader for FSC Slapton Ley and Devon Wildlife Trust, and is happiest when foraging with her husband and two young children. Lizzie Harper is a wildlife illustrator (www.lizzieharper.co.uk)

Publisher: Field Studies Council

ISBN: 9781851532308

Weight: 42g

Dimensions: 175 x 20 x 245 mm