It is more than 40 years now since Richard Mabey published his first and still bestselling book Food for Free, the original British forager’s bible. That book set in motion a trend for the fossicking of local produce and a re-wilding spirit that persists in both country and town. It also was the stepping-off point for Mabey’s own wonderfully outlaw relationship with the British landscape, which led to more than 30 books about hedgerow and forest – quests after nightingales and eulogies for beech trees – that include his magisterial compendium Flora Britannica, and his intimate history of his own battle with depression and its remedies, Nature Cure. This month Mabey publishes a personal...
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