Foraging is Magical

Learn to forage in the UK


A mix of brown and blue mushrooms sprouting from mossy logs in a forest.

Foraging is the act of gathering wild food for free. Although it’s gained far greater popularity in recent years, for our distant ancestors foraging would simply have been a way of life – a necessity in fact.
As recently as World War 2, collecting wild rosehips to make syrup became an important way of supplementing vitamin C intake when the importation of fruits such as oranges was widely restricted.
Learn more on the BBC Beginner Guide