Foraging Rants

An exploration of the rise of cyberforaging – the marriage of foraging and social media – and the opportunities and challenges this brings

An exploration of some of the less pleasant aspect of foraging on social media, including my Spotter’s Guide to Foraging Trolls

Desert the slow, terrible armies of the cautious – use foraging as a springboard for creativity.

I get a lot of requests online for help identifying wild foods – especially fungi. I welcome these – it is a pleasure to help people improve their knowledge and gives me an opportunity to sharpen my identification skills. Win-win. But I feel a little guidance to people looking for help with ID would make the exchange more useful to both them and me…

I regularly get asked – in person, on Twitter, by email or on the comments sections on this site – where to find particular wild foods. If you have asked such a question, I may well have directed you here. If you were expecting a big map of where the ceps, oysters, sea kale or […]