Foraging

Product Description

This is a practical guide to finding & preparing food from hedgerows parks fields woods rivers & seashore. Aimed at the beginner it also has a wealth of tips for the enthusiast & unlike other books on wild food covers foraging in the urban environment as well as the countryside. The book shows the reader Where How & When to find the best edible berries leaves flowers mushrooms seaweed shellfish & snails with clear & full instructions on what is safe to eat. Foraging" covers the 100 wild foods that are good to eat fun to find easy to identify
- & will make a healthy difference to your diet & your bank balance. The book is organised by environment so when taking a walk gardening or having a day out you know how to gather a hedgerow harvest a field feast a seaside salad. Each entry features one species & fully explains its looks exactly where in the habitat it will be found when it is ripe to eat its alternative names its history how to harvest it its culinary uses. There are full instructions too on preparation of each plant/fungi/animal along with recipes for its use. This title

Includes:: recipes such as: comfrey fritters hazelnut pate nettle beer sorrel soup dandelion coffee blackberry jam..."