

- The format is PDF and Kindle
- The history of each plant
- Which parts of the plant to use as food
- Traditional and modern food uses
- Nutritional breakdown
- Traditional folk medicine uses
- Safety notes and contraindications
Also
- Multiple full-colour photos of each plant
- Common name
- Scientific name
- Family
- Easy botanical description
- Flowering time
- Where the plant is found
- Status: perennial, annual, biennial etc.
- Whether it is native or non-native
A great book – straightforward useful information. Really beautiful and full of four pics of each plant so you can be really clear about your ID. Highly recommended. – S. Ravenscroft


Although there are hundreds of wild edible plants to choose from, I focus on the top forty-eight.
The ones you most likely know already by sight, even though you might not know their names or uses.
Alexanders, Black Mustard, Bramble (Blackberry), Brooklime, Burdock, Charlock, Chickweed, Chicory, Cleavers (Goosegrass), Common Glasswort (Samphire), Common Mallow, Common Sorrel, Cow Parsley, Cuckooflower (Lady’s Smock), Curly Dock, Daisy, Dandelion, Fat-hen, Garlic Mustard, Ground Elder, Ground Ivy, Himalayan Balsam, Hogweed, Horseradish, Lesser Celandine, Meadowsweet, Mugwort, Navelwort, Pennywort, Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage, Oxeye Daisy, Primrose, Red Clover, Ribwort Plantain, Rosebay Willowherb (Fireweed), Scurvygrass, Sea Aster, Sea Beet, Sea Purslane, Selfheal, Smooth Sowthistle, Stinging Nettle, Sweet Violet, Three-cornered Garlic (Three-cornered Leek), White Dead-Nettle, Wild Angelica, Wild Garlic (Ramsons), Wood Avens (Herb Bennet) and Yarrow.



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About Robin Harford

Robin Harford is a plant forager, ethnobotanical researcher and wild food educator. He is the author of numerous foraging books.
He established his wild food foraging school in 2008, and his foraging courses were recently voted #1 in the country by BBC Countryfile.
Robin is the creator of eatweeds.co.uk, listed in The Times Top 50 websites for food and drink.
He has travelled extensively, documenting and recording wild food plants' traditional and local uses in indigenous cultures. His work has taken him to Africa, India, SE Asia, Europe and the USA.
Robin occasionally appears on national and local radio and television. He has been featured in BBC Good Food magazine, Sainsbury’s magazine, The Ecologist, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, etc.
He is a founding member of the Association of Foragers, the Society of Economic Botany and the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland.