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Forage in Summer: The Food and Medicine of Britain’s Wild Plants Kindle Edition

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Forage in Summer is a celebration of the top fifteen edible and medicinal wild plants found in June, July and August. It’s a comprehensive exploration into their past and present uses as food and medicine, including their forgotten folklore.

An invaluable addition to any forager, herbalist, gardener, horticulturist or naturalist’s library, providing plant-lovers with a much-needed resource to understanding nature’s most useful wild plants.

It covers bramble, burdock, chickweed, elder, fat hen, lime/linden, mallow, meadowsweet, mugwort, oxeye daisy, rosebay willowherb, samphire, sea aster, selfheal and yarrow.

Inside this comprehensive reference, you’ll:

  • Discover the traditional and contemporary food and medicine uses of wild plants.
  • Learn their folklore and stories.
  • Includes delicious recipes.
  • Each plant is beautifully illustrated with a black and white Victorian botanical print.
  • Know which part of the plant to use.
  • When the best time to harvest is.
  • Nutritional profiles for each plant are covered.
  • Safety notes – what you need to know if pregnant or on medication.

Plants have stories, stories that reconnect us to the Land and the rest of Nature.

As our society evermore disconnects, there is a revivalist movement flourishing like a rhizome. This ancient path of the forager reconnects us to the vital, to wildness, to creation, to what is in effect the very pulse of life itself.

One of the most direct ways to experience this is to consume this wildness. Take it into our bodies, where like a sleeper agent, it lies dormant until you have eaten enough to change the structure of your blood, thereby changing your brain and how you relate to the non-human world.

For it is this simple act. The act of taking wild food and medicine into our body, that in time becomes so transformative.

Forage in Summer is not a harking back to some naive, romantic vision of how we might once have lived. Instead, these plants’ stories are a way to help you sense into the future and understand our ecological function (as a species) within the world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robin Harford is a forager, ethnobotanical researcher and wild food educator. He has published numerous foraging guide books.

He established his wild food foraging school in 2008, and his foraging courses were recently voted #1 in the country by BBC Countryfile.
Robin is the creator of eatweeds.co.uk, listed in The Times Top 50 websites for food and drink.

He has travelled extensively, documenting and recording the traditional and local uses of wild food plants in indigenous cultures. His work has taken him to Africa, India, SE Asia, Europe and the USA.

Robin has appeared on national and local radio and television and been featured in BBC Good Food magazine, Sainsbury’s magazine, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, etc.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B098KL97XS
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Eatweeds Press (July 1, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 13651 KB
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  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1838401571
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Robin Harford is a plant forager, ethnobotanical researcher and wild food educator. He is author of the bestselling Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland and numerous foraging guide books, see eatweeds.co.uk/books/.

He established his wild food foraging school in 2008, and his foraging courses were recently voted #1 in the country by BBC Countryfile.

Robin is the creator of eatweeds.co.uk, which is listed in The Times Top 50 websites for food and drink.

He has travelled extensively documenting and recording the traditional and local uses of wild food plants in indigenous cultures, and his work has taken him to Africa, India, SE Asia, Europe and the USA.

Robin occasionally appears on national and local radio and television. He has been featured in BBC Good Food magazine, Sainsbury’s magazine as well as in The Ecologist, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph etc.

He is a member of the Association of Foragers, the Society of Economic Botany and the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland.

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Cathy Connally
5.0 out of 5 stars Love and care went into this book
Reviewed in Canada on June 26, 2022
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This is the second book I have bought from this author. I love the details on how to forage. So much fun. Thank you
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Mrs d sodeau
5.0 out of 5 stars Good value for money
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2023
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Clear discription, informative and easy to follow.
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Teresa
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellebt reference book about wild food foraging
Reviewed in France on September 24, 2021
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What a marvelous book...I have just been dipping into it. There is a whole chapter on Fat Hen with information about its origins, medicinal use and recipes. I was recently doing some research into this wild green plant, and I wish that I had had reference to Forage in Summer then.

The 'winter seeds' that Seamus o'Heaney refers to in his poem 'The Tollund Man' were found to be those of the 'Fat Hen'. Who knew? Another fact that I have discovered from Robin Harwood's book..

Such themes on the subject of 'wild food' reminds me of how I would like to reconnect with nature... and foraging actually...As a child I used to go foraging with my father and my brother for mushrooms, horseradish and wild garlic ...and in my teens I was really inspired by Robert Mabey's Food for Free book..not because it was about getting free food from the wild but because of all the information and knowledge revealed...most of which sad to say I have forgotten. I think that I still have the book somewhere...I believe that our fathers and grandfather's and mother's for that matter were more in tune with nature. My father as a child in the 1930s of necessity I think...

Thank you Robin Harwood for being inspirational! I am not at all sure that I would have been thinking of enjoying the delights of wild greens again if it were not for this author's 'eat green' newsletter which I stumbled upon and which led to me buying this excellent compendium It is very accessible in style and I like the recipes and the anecdotal and historical references..
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DJ Norwood
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic in the making
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 25, 2021
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I really like the way the fifteen plants in the this book are partitioned into helpful chapters: intro, folklore, food and medicine.

There has undoubtably been a great deal of research undertaken in the making of this book. One particular fact - that elderberries contain cyanide that is destroyed by heat in the cooking process - is a revelation. There are pages full of similar wonder, which as yet, I haven't had the time to properly digest.

I customised my copy with a layer of sticky-backed plastic, Blue Peter style. I know it's going to be in and out of my rucksack on a regular basis, so I want to keep it book-shaped for as long as possible.

Highly recommended.
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ilana
5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely book of summer plant opportunities
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 17, 2022
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I found the mix of folk medicine, herbal medicine, food, folklore from all over the world was highly enjoyable.
I usually have to dip into a number of books to get this information (which I like to do), nevertheless I loved it.
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