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Guided year-round foraging walks in the Sussex countryside
Guided year-round foraging walks in the Sussex countryside
It sometimes seems there are nearly as many books about fungi as there are species. Below are some recommended books including the ultimate "bible" by Roger Phillips.
As well as a plethora of books helping you to ID different fungi, there are also hundreds - if not thousands - of cookbooks focusing on recipes using wild edibles and foraged ingredients.
Collins Complete Guide to British Mushrooms and Toadstools features over 1,500 photographs to help you identify each species. A useful resource.
Collins Gem is a useful pocket guide you can easily take out on a walk. Features 240+ species.
Phillips is the ultimate resource for any fungi enthusiast, 384 pages containing over 1,250 photographs. Phillips also shows the specimens in various stages of growth. Dive in!
The Forager's Calendar is a lovely book (great gift!) showing - month by month, what can be found and where, how to ID it, and how to store, use and cook it.
From berries, herbs and mushrooms to wild vegetables, salad leaves and seaweed, Wild Food will inspire you to start cooking with nature's free bounty.
The first book in the lovely River Cottage Handbook series takes us through the 72 species we're most likely to come across in the UK and includes 30+ delicious mushroom recipes
The Wild Food UK Mushroom Foraging Guide has 352 pages covering over 160 different wild UK mushrooms species and focuses on the best edibles plus their poisonous lookalikes.
In Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake takes us on a mind-altering journey into the spectacular world, of fungi and reveals how these extraordinary organisms transform our understanding of our planet and life itself.
Richard Mabey’s Food for Free is where it all started for me! This is a fantastic guide to help you safely identify edible species together with detailed field identification notes and recipes.
Wild Food UK's Foraging Pocket Guide is a handy, practical field guide which is ideal for beginners and covers more than 120 species of trees, plants and mushrooms.