While I have been growing vegetables at home for many years, I have also been attracted to what can be found growing wild in fields, hedgerows and along the coasts. Richard Mabey’s Food For Free is an admirable, and very comprehensive guide to edible wild plants that I have dipped into over the years.
Whether I have become more appreciative of nature with advancing age, or because I am more reluctant now to spend money on expensive, and often imported, produce, there is something very