Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland: A Foraging and Photographic Identification Guide

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Its a bit tricky trying to read it while looking at my phone while walking in the countryside looking for things I want to forage, all at the same time without falling over a log.

A flavour profile of each plant lets us know what taste we should expect and a nutritional profile informs us of the nutrients each plant provides. Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too. He has travelled extensively documenting and recording the traditional and local uses of wild food plants in indigenous cultures, and his work has taken him to Africa, India, SE Asia, Europe and the USA.He has been recommended in BBC Good Food magazine, Sainsbury's magazine as well as in The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph etc. I regard thiese as an essential part of the available information for any plant identification compilation. Alongside a growing want to try and use natural, rather than synthetic, methods to provide medicinal remedies and a general desire from a lot of us to get back to mature this book has come along at a great time.

Stepping back into the wild with this book has really felt like coming home and I am so grateful to the author for enabling this adventure. minute review of Robin Harford’s lovely new book on The Edible and Medicinal plants of Britain and Ireland. It comes with a free downloadable PDF photo identification guide that includes multiple full-colour photographs of each plant to help make identification easy. He wrote the book to help us rediscover our forgotten plant heritage and how to use wild plants as food and medicine. My book is considered an invaluable addition to any forager, herbalist, gardener, horticulturist or naturalist’s library.While I have a huge interest in such things and appreciate his efforts, he's not took into consideration that we don't know what the plants he's taking about look like and he's not put this book together in a detailed manner; it's just sort of thrown together. Cautions for plants, where necessary are given and if the plant has any other interesting uses then these are also covered. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It just kinda falls flat in the reading experience if you can’t visualise what he is talking about, also not everyone has access and means to be able to download a guide, many households do not have internet access nor computers or laptops to download guides too. Please allow up to 10 working days for 2nd class mail to arrive, instead of the usual 3-5 days that we all used to be accustomed to.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).The author has spent fifteen years experimenting and learning about wild plants and how our ancestors used plants to nourish and heal themselves. Never rely on one source for plant identification, and never eat anything unless you are 100% sure it is edible. Hi, I'm Robin Harford, bestselling author of Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland. I would have loved pictures, I know Robin gives you a link for a free downloadable guide but I want to read a book, not read a book and reference elsewhere for info.

Hedgerows are a great place to find most of these plants, but do look around in woods and fields as many grow there too.I feel if I can get to grips with the 48 common plants discussed in this book, I'll be a step closer to being able to knowing the environment around me on my walks. I’ve read many foraging books that have provided comprehensive pictures so that seems a bit of a cop out to me, not even illustrations so at least we could get the gist of what it kind of looks like and then if we do want to attempt finding it in the wild we could reference his guide? Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland | Covering 48 wild edible and medicinal plants, I have written this book to help you rediscover our forgotten plant heritage. As the opportunity to use what nature has provided, and to encourage more plants in our own back gradens that can be used for a range of purposes – rather than purely to look nice – foraging has become cool!