A basket
Breathable — a plastic bag sweats and bruises your finds. A basket also drops seeds as you walk.
You don't need much to start — but the right six items make foraging safer, cleaner and more fun.
Breathable — a plastic bag sweats and bruises your finds. A basket also drops seeds as you walk.
For clean cuts on stems, mushrooms and roots. A clean cut helps the plant regrow.
For nettles, thorns and anything you're not sure of. Cheap insurance.
For snipping tender greens and herbs without uprooting the whole plant.
The most important tool. Color photos and lookalike warnings — never forage on memory alone.
To keep mushrooms separate from greens, and to let fungi drop spores as you go.
A color guide with lookalike warnings is the one non-negotiable. Our pick is The Forager's Guide — 400 plants, every lookalike documented.
Ten common wild foods, where to find each one, and the #1 lookalike to avoid — on one printable sheet. We'll email it to you.