Food for free -

LizEstelle

- is the title of Richard Mabey's book on stuff you can pick/find for yourself out in the countryside or even in your garden.

I've seen recent threads on blackberrying and as it's Autumn now I thought I would flag up this one, although I'm sure it's a book which will be well-known on here.

It mentions all the different berries, nuts, mushrooms, roots etc which are out there for free, although it's a bit dated now.

Not really one for the townies, sorry!

Maybe this post should be on the freebies board?!

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Hi LizEstelle,

We have a couple of older threads on similar subjects that might interest you too:

Foraging - Natures Food

Free Food Challenge

Cheap food if you aren't squeamish

It's also worth checking out the Foraging forum on www.downsizer.net

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LizEstelle

Thanks for that.

In case anyone's interested, there are a couple of other field guides which I know of:

'Wild Food' by Roger Phillips
''Food from the Wild' by Ian Burrows

I'm sure they've been mentioned elsewhere so I'll leave it at that.