Thoughts on how to be a considerate, responsible forager

This website explores some of the huge variety of wild foods to be found around the UK, with tips on seasonality, distribution and an indication of how easy to find and identify they are. All information can also be accessed via the drop-down menus above, or if you are looking for information on a specific species, […]

The huge diversity of wild plants and fungi can be very daunting to the novice forager. The form of plants can vary greatly between seasons and even individual plants within a species can look different depending on where they are growing. Fungi can be even more bewildering as they can turn from immature buttons to […]

The pheasants we encounter in Scotland (Phasianus Colchicus) are neither native or truly wild. Indigenous to Mongolia, they may have arrived here with the Romans as ornamental birds and were certainly a common sight in Britain