Foraging for edible wild plants : how to identify, cook and enjoy them
(Book)

Foraging for Edible Wild Plants is a practical and attractive guide to the many edible varieties of wild plant that grow all around us. It will appeal to gardeners, botanists, cooks and foragers, and to anyone who wants to control invasive plants and weeds in eco-friendly ways. Wild plants have many virtues. They are: Valuable for wildlife and beneficial insects ; Good for the soil locking in nutrients ; Helpful in the accumulation of trace elements in soil ; Hosts for essential mycorrhizal fungi underground ; Interesting and unusual ingredients in cooking. Foraging for Edible Wild Plants covers both common plants, such as nettle, dandelion, chickweed and ground elder, and less common ones, such as brooklime and wintercress.