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title: "Food For Free (Collins Gem)"
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# Food For Free (Collins Gem)

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Review: Perfect companion for hiking - If you have any interest in foraging, this little portable book is ideal. It is small enough to fit in your back pocket, very portable little thing. The plants in the book have illustrations and photos so it’s pretty easy to recognise what you’re looking at, even for a novice like me. It goes in to a bit of detail on how you would prep and use the plants you’re able to forage, which is really useful too. There’s so many uses for this book - parents out with their kids teaching them a little about nature - all kids love this sort of thing they really do, keep it with you when camping to see what you can add to the campfire, keep it handy when on a hike so you can pick up some snacks along the way, it’s even a great addition for survivalists to learn how to live off the land. Great little book, very useful when there’s no phone coverage, and very cheap too. What’s not to like?
Review: A brilliant little pocked size foraging guide - This is a great little guide whether you intend to set out on a forage or are just ambling around the countryside and fancy taking something tasty home. It lists pretty much all your standard countryside fare - nuts, berries, flowers, edible foliage, vegetables, seeds etc. - and gives clear guides on identification, when to pick and what to use them for. It also lists shellfish and seaweeds in similar detail, and although there is a good mushroom section with the easiest to identify species, if you haven't been mushroom picking before do get at least one other book on mushrooms to compare with and make very certain of what you are picking. There is also a great introduction to edible foraging and the law, and a month by month pick guide as well as some basic info on making, jams etc. The only things that let it down in my eyes are its size - while nicely compact it would be easier to read if it were a tad bigger, and it could do with more pictures, although you can say this of any flora guide. It also makes no mention of the many wild foods you can pick to use for wine and beer making, but this is probably outside of the book's scope. All in all a fantastic little guide and amazing value. Go out there and pick some fat hen!

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 15,810 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 21 in Outdoor Survival Skills 86 in Garden Plants 89 in Environmental Conservation |
| Customer reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (4,791) |
| Dimensions  | 11.68 x 7.87 x 1.52 cm |
| Edition  | New edition |
| ISBN-10  | 0007183038 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0007183036 |
| Item weight  | 1.05 kg |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 239 pages |
| Publication date  | 1 Aug. 2012 |
| Publisher  | Collins |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect companion for hiking
*by C***S on 17 April 2022*

If you have any interest in foraging, this little portable book is ideal. It is small enough to fit in your back pocket, very portable little thing. The plants in the book have illustrations and photos so it’s pretty easy to recognise what you’re looking at, even for a novice like me. It goes in to a bit of detail on how you would prep and use the plants you’re able to forage, which is really useful too. There’s so many uses for this book - parents out with their kids teaching them a little about nature - all kids love this sort of thing they really do, keep it with you when camping to see what you can add to the campfire, keep it handy when on a hike so you can pick up some snacks along the way, it’s even a great addition for survivalists to learn how to live off the land. Great little book, very useful when there’s no phone coverage, and very cheap too. What’s not to like?

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A brilliant little pocked size foraging guide
*by M***P on 19 September 2010*

This is a great little guide whether you intend to set out on a forage or are just ambling around the countryside and fancy taking something tasty home. It lists pretty much all your standard countryside fare - nuts, berries, flowers, edible foliage, vegetables, seeds etc. - and gives clear guides on identification, when to pick and what to use them for. It also lists shellfish and seaweeds in similar detail, and although there is a good mushroom section with the easiest to identify species, if you haven't been mushroom picking before do get at least one other book on mushrooms to compare with and make very certain of what you are picking. There is also a great introduction to edible foraging and the law, and a month by month pick guide as well as some basic info on making, jams etc. The only things that let it down in my eyes are its size - while nicely compact it would be easier to read if it were a tad bigger, and it could do with more pictures, although you can say this of any flora guide. It also makes no mention of the many wild foods you can pick to use for wine and beer making, but this is probably outside of the book's scope. All in all a fantastic little guide and amazing value. Go out there and pick some fat hen!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Add a wild flourish to your food.
*by N***Y on 20 October 2019*

Teeny tiny cute guide. Indeed for the pocket. Useful because it goes by month/season for what’s available. Good identification diagrams and photos. I feel confident this will stop me poisoning myself. The reason for the drop in stars might be my own fault, so hands up here, but I’d been searching, and thought, I had found a “if I’m stuck in the wild/apocalypse/grid goes down situation I can survive” and unfortunately this book may help a bit but is not THAT book. A lot of the content is meant as a cute added flourish to your normal meals. A very nice flourish I’ll admit and would certainly add a bit of fancy to a survival dinner but you get my point. Nevertheless... best to have a bit of garnish than nothing at all.

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