Preparedness Is Not Only What You Store. It Is What You Know.

Food stores, water, backup power and alternative ways to cook all have a place in preparedness. So does practical knowledge.

Wild Garlic appears in spring. Elder flowers in early summer. Rosehips and sloes follow later in the year. Useful plants are still common, but many people no longer know how to recognise or use them.

Knowledge gives you more options

Foraging will not replace a sensible food store or make you self-sufficient. What it can do is add another practical skill to the way you prepare.

If you can recognise common edible and medicinal plants, understand when they appear, know which parts to use and how to prepare them, you become less dependent on buying every useful thing you need.

That knowledge can be practised in ordinary life, long before any disruption happens.

The Eatweeds Foraging Collection

The Eatweeds Foraging Collection is a set of five digital books covering 45 of Britain's useful edible and medicinal wild plants.

The books follow the seasons, so you learn plants as they appear. This gives you time to build confidence gradually instead of trying to memorise hundreds of species at once.

What you'll learn

• How to identify 45 common British wild plants with confidence
• When different plants appear and when they are ready to gather
• Which parts are traditionally used for food or medicine
• How to harvest and prepare them safely
• Important cautions and similar-looking plants to watch for
• Traditional uses rooted in centuries of plant knowledge
• The stories, folklore and history connected with familiar British plants
• More than 80 recipes for everyday dishes, preserves, drinks and desserts

The collection concentrates on a useful number of plants in enough depth to help you recognise and use them properly.

Identification is only the first step

A plant name is useful, but practical knowledge goes further. You also need to know when to gather it, which parts to use, how to prepare it and what cautions or lookalikes you should be aware of.

That is what these books are designed to teach.

Built for practical use

The digital editions are designed to give you the same core knowledge in a format you can keep on your phone, tablet or computer.

You can read at home, refer back to the material when planning a walk, or keep the files available on your device for later use.

Is this for you?

This collection IS for you if you want to:

• Add practical foraging knowledge to your preparedness skills
• Build capability as well as store supplies
• Learn useful plants that commonly grow in Britain
• Become more confident identifying wild plants safely
• Supplement stored and bought food with seasonal wild ingredients
• Understand what useful resources grow around you
• Rely less on apps and superficial identification tools
• Develop a skill that is useful in ordinary life as well as during disruption

It is probably NOT for you if:

• You want a guide to surviving entirely from wild food
• You expect foraging to replace sensible emergency food stores
• You want instant plant identification without learning the plants yourself
• You are looking for exotic superfoods or miracle cures
• You want fantasy survivalism rather than practical knowledge
• You want printed books rather than digital downloads

Your guide

I'm Robin Harford. I've spent more than 20 years studying, gathering and working with Britain's wild plants, and I've taught thousands of people how to identify, gather and use wild food.

My work draws on decades of field experience, traditional plant knowledge, folk herbalism and ethnobotany. I've also learned from medical herbalists, Ayurvedic practitioners and traditional plant knowledge holders across four continents.

My books have sold more than 65,000 copies. My work has been featured by the BBC, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent and The Daily Telegraph, and BBC Countryfile has listed my courses among the best foraging courses in the UK.

The standard behind these books is practical: can you recognise the plant, know when to gather it, understand which part to use and prepare it safely?

What you receive

• Five downloadable digital books
• 45 edible and medicinal British wild plants
• Spring, summer and autumn foraging
• Plant identification
• Harvesting and preparation
• Safety information and cautions
• Traditional food and medicinal uses
• Plant history and folklore
• More than 80 recipes

Price

£24.95

Digital download only. No physical books will be shipped.

Learn the plants before you need the knowledge

The best time to build a practical skill is while life is normal. Start with the plants that already grow around you.