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I'm not sure we agree on the role of the legal system within our society... Change the law, you say? Reform, reform, reform... Why not, it's got us this far. Might as well carry on "rearranging the deckchairs on the titanic." I don't see any foragers, or small farmers forking out to buy a ...

Not likely, even if I did -out of a deadly mixture of boredom and intrigue- decide to accept their invitation to go to court, I don't see any "community service" in my immediate future. "you stand accused of planting native trees, strawberry bushes and kale plants on Mr Mike Jones's P...

Richard Mayby = a classic, no noob forager should be without. Make sure you don't get the really tiny one- or you loose the pages about edible roots, and quite a few other plants. There are so many versions of that book, go for the one with the most pages. To be honest, the internet is far better fo...

Private property, is paperwork... a legal specter that represents a fictional section of land. Unless you've got a 12 gauge pointed at me- I'm getting those field mushrooms, I'm picking those berries. Don't get me wrong, the small area of land around your house I'll leave alone. This IS your land. T...

Ah cherries.... Yes. However, they are near my top-secret guerrilla garden.. so can't really draw you a verbal map on here. I spotted some near ranks in "mitjuldeane", at the end with the green-roofed building-ross/ley side of mitch- huge cherry trees, but they're right on the road side, a...

Leckhampton is surprisingly good for foraging- When I was staying in chelt not that long ago, I was going a little nuts -missing the trees- so it was suggested that I take a walk up to Leckhampton, having never been there before I was a little pessimistic whilst walking up the hill, but I was soon s...

I find clumps/patches of them under both broad leaf trees and in mixed/evergreen woodland- providing the evergreen trees are spaced out and there are other bushes / types of trees growing amongst them. They grow best under beach/ oak - in my experiences. They'll take you a whole day to pick- but it'...

Hi lydneyian - a fellow forester here... "owe bist ole'butty" - a little *authentic* forest there - you don't find much of our secret language on the internet. I've just joined up too, been browsing this site for a while, got loads of useful tips off here- so about time I contributed back ...

The white clover and gorse can be easily found- I live near lots of woodland, I'll post you a load of them if you'd like. I have seeds from some oriental leaves - they might not be able to compete against all weeds, but if you saved the seeds, you could make sure they kept growing back. I've got Dra...