Recent content by Geoff Dann

This book is now officially released, and currently available from Amazon for £21. Which means if you already have a pre-release copy then you can also leave a review, even if you didn't buy it from Amazon. :)

It covers temperate and colder. There wasn't any point in putting this on the cover though. There's not much that can be foraged in Scandinavia which cannot also be found in parts of the British Isles.

It includes the specialist plants of the extreme north and the mountains. There are so few of these (of foraging interest) that it was easy to include them without making a compromise on space. I did not get a chance to find any of these myself. They are some of the small minority of entries...

Temperate Europe. Everywhere in Europe north and west of the Alps and Pyrenees, and the mountains themselves. It does say this on the cover!

OK great. I will not be using Hermes for a bulk delivery in future. Most of them got there, but out of about 200, 2 failed to arrive at all and a handful had clearly been seriously abused en-route. Cheap and nasty.

Still not arrived?

It's an orange grisette

Chants doing well in Sussex.

Lurid Bolete

I finished the text yesterday. Just a few photos to sort out in Dorset next week, then it will go to the proof reader. Release date is January 15th, but I will be exclusively selling signed pre-release copies from some time around early December. See link below to reserve your copy...

Yes. Excellent candied.

Bottom one is an Amanita. One of the grisettes.

The pond is only about 6 inches deep.

You don't understand English history. The fact that the Normans were of genetically the same stock as the Anglo-saxons is irrelevant. Before the Norman conquest of England, there was a lot of common land and ownership of non-common land was relatively widespread (lots of people owned different...

The result was a catastrophe for the ango-saxon inhabitants, the consequences of which are still felt today. All the land was taken, and much of it remains in the hands of the descendents of William's closest allies. And his own, of course...