Foraging for Edible Wild Plants : Green Books : 9780857845511 : 0857845519 : 24 Feb 2022 : Foraging for Edible Wild Plants is a practical and attractive guide to the many edible varieties of wild plant that grow all around us. It will appeal to gardeners, botanists, cooks and foragers, and to anyone who wants to control invasive plants and weeds in eco-friendly ways. Wild plants have many virtues. They are: Valuable for wildlife and beneficial insects.Good for the soil ? locking in nutrientsHelpful in the accumulation of trace elements in soilHosts for essential mycorrhizal fungi undergroundInteresting and unusual ingredients in cooking Foraging for Edible Wild Plants provides full details of over 50 edible species, with: Illustrated notes on appearance and habitatValuable nutritional informationadvice on how to cook themnumerous recipe suggestions for jams, cordials, pesto, salads and soupsfascinating historical factstips for non-culinary uses such as dyes from nettles and soap