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Whether you live in a city or in the countryside, a world of amazing, diverse\u00c2\u00a0wild food is at your doorstep.\u00c2\u00a0<\/b>Not only is wild food free and sustainable; it is also jam-packed with nutrients and flavour beyond anything you will find in a supermarket. <\/p>\n

In Free Food<\/i>,<\/i>award-winning author and forager Mo Wilde explains how to identify the plants, seaweeds, nuts and spices that are safe (and delicious) to eat<\/b>, including foraging staples like wild garlic and\u00c2\u00a0lesser-known herbs like the fragrant sweet cicely. Organised into plant families, it gives you the tools to develop a deeper understanding of a plant’s visual cues and their place in the ecosystem.<\/p>\n

Once you have identified the plants, Wilde also describes ways you can eat them, whether that’s making jams from wild berries or gluten-free flour from roots and nuts. The possibilities go on. You can deep-fry hogweed tempura; top your dishes with cow parsley; create a wild pantry of herbal infusions, spices and fermented drinks,\u00c2\u00a0and even tap beech trees for their sap. <\/p>\n

Gorgeously illustrated<\/b>, Free Food\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>will awaken your sense of wonder.<\/b> Whatever your lifestyle – whether you are an enthusiastic forager or simply curious about wild food – this book will\u00c2\u00a0<\/b>inspire you to get outside and re-connect with nature.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A beautifully illustrated guide to foraging plants from the award-winning author of The Wilderness Cure<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[98],"product_tag":[358,28289,2841],"class_list":["post-107672","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-nat-history-popular-science","product_tag-gift-books","product_tag-plant-biology","product_tag-the-environment","pa_book_author-wilde-mo","pa_cover-hardback","pa_dewey-581-632-edition23","pa_imprint-simon-schuster-uk-ltd","pa_language-english","pa_pages-8634","pa_publisher-simon-schuster-uk-ltd","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\nFree food<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Whether you live in a city or in the countryside, a world of amazing, diverse\u00c2\u00a0wild food is at your doorstep.\u00c2\u00a0Not only is wild food free and sustainable; it is also jam-packed with nutrients and flavour beyond anything you will find in a supermarket. 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