How To Get Started Foraging - Practical Guidance For Absolute Beginners

Lots of people asked me for tips, advice or tutorials on getting started foraging - well, OK, here it comes! This video assumes you're starting from complete scratch. In a future video, we'll maybe look at other aspects like ethics, conservation and legalities

About books and reference materials:
It's vital that you choose reference guides that are appropriate to your geographic area - if you try to use a book from a different region, the chance of fatal mistakes is significant (for example, my foraging books don't rule out poisonous lookalikes that never grow here)

Here are the books that appear in this video (plus a few from my library); some of these are now out of print, but here are the details, and my brief review impression of each:

My handbook is 'A Handguide to the Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe' by Marjorie Blamey & Richard Fitter - Treasure Press - ISBN 1850510512 - good. Look for a handbook like this with lots of pictures per page to make it quicker to narrow down your search.

My larger book is The Encyclopedia of Wild Flowers by John Akeroyd - Parragon Books - ISBN 1405416262 - good.

Food for Free by Richard Mabey - Collins - ISBN 9780007247684 - excellent.

Wild Food by Roger Phillips - Macmillan - ISBN 0330280694 - very good.

A Country Harvest by Pamela Michael (illus by Christabel King) - Peerage Books - ISBN 1850520704 - nice recipes and folklore

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