This handy sized reference book, ideal for popping in your pocket prior to a walk, helps you identify the most common wild food showing you what plant is at its peak for picking, which mushrooms can be gathered where and when or which berries are ideal for perserving in a jam or jelly. With sections examining faurna, flora and fungi the book encourages you to go forth and forage with sections detailing woodland, heath and hill, the seashore and the riverbank making it an essential walking compaion for the novice forager keen to take advantage of natures free larder. Accompanied by recipes, photographs and illustrations this book is an ideal introduction for every budding forager.