The Forager's Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Wild Harvests Kindle Edition

It's very well written and illustrated. More, the author has devised a great way to show the best months for foraging certain resources. Highly recommended.

Pretty worthless unless a complete novice .Not what I expected nor helpful in any way.

well worth a read if you are interested in just being outdoors. I'm not a forager, but I do spend time in the woods and the book has been really helpful in learning what plants are useful and when they are ready to be used. I take it with me and sit under a tree with a flask of tea. it just seems the right thing to do. :-)

I've been lucky to enjoy several days of foraging in John's company and have enjoyed every one of them immensely.It's not just John's vast knowledge of wild food (which he imparts enthusiastically) that I enjoy; it's also his little anecdotes, his humour and his honesty!If a plant or a mushroom is edible but tastes awful - he will tell you!From my first flick through this lovely new book I can see that he has brought that honesty to it too. Thankfully, there's also plenty of his anecdotes and good humour also.Reading the introduction, it feels like I am back in John's company, listening to his lovely tales of Blackberry picking with his parents or other countryside adventures.This book is laid out clearly by month and the photos help with easy identification of the various plants available in each season.I strongly recommend you pick up a copy and enjoy some time on a foraging expedition, in John's company.

Be careful thks is a good book if you like mushrooms not many other bits of foraging in it

I love this book so much. In fact, you can see from the pictures that I have loved this book almost to death. And I've only had it for one year. It's stained with blackberry juice, elderflower pollen, gin, and whatever else I've found and used to cook/brew with my winnings. It has been scratched all over from rose thorns has been dropped in a few puddles, and now genuinely smells a bit "herby".The format is just perfect - I read a whole chapter at the start of the month and then dip back in for some reminders between and during foraging excursions. I still enjoy each time I re-read the informational content - which is something as I have a brain like a sieve and forget everything rather swiftly. The matter-of-fact yet sometimes mildly silly tone often has me laughing out loud. His observations on gardeners are astutely relateable as my father is a keen gardener and I a keen forager - yes I agree "sometimes I do think that gardeners feel the need to suffer". I will often read bits out to my father that relate to the weeds he is frantically trying to rid his garden of (ground elder being a great extract) and it will make us both laugh.He is also, like most fairly normal humans that are worth knowing, a slight dipsomaniac (and I will be buying his other books about how to brew your own etc).I think this is the best "all-rounder" foraging book and great for somebody who is just getting started. However, as I do not live near the sea, I travel around the UK on a narrowboat foraging the towpath hedgerows, I haven't yet, ahem, digested any of the sea-side delights the book has to offer. As this book has really inspired me to forage more I will be buying the hedgerows and mushrooms River Cottage handbooks.I say get this book in hardback because I do carry this everywhere with me and it shows. I just wouldn't anybody love it to death like I have and regret not getting a hardback copy to last a bit longer.

I was disappointed in this book. The images are too small and lack detail. You often have a page and a half of unnecessary chat with one small photograph. Since many plants are poisonous I would think clear photos would be essential - I was left feeling too uncertain to attempt to eat many of the plants mentioned. I also found the vocabulary irritating. Had this book been written 150 years ago I might have thought it quaint but as a modern book ....