This practical pocket guide 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.
 
A practical pocket guide to 163 plant species with medicinal qualities. Each entry features detailed artwork, concise descriptions, advice on foraging and planting, and medicinal uses, toxicity and side effects. The book also offers a brief history of foraging for medicine, practical tips on collecting wild plants safely and legally, and guidance on how to store, preserve and prepare medicinal plants in balms, teas and tinctures.
 
By the author of the Concise Foraging Guide, Dark Skies, and The Bridleway.
Each species account includes accurate artworks and concise descriptions that will help you to identify species in the field, as well as ideas for how to cook and bake with them. The helpful introduction explains how to forage safely and legally and outlines how to prepare and preserve your foraged foods.