Bitterne Parker Alan Gibson – AKA The Urbane Forager – has written a new book setting out how families can spend valuable time together in the outdoors, while gathering enough fruit to save many pounds off the weekly shop.

the Urbane Forager: Fruit & Nuts For Free is described as “The perfect book for anyone wanting to launch themselves into foraging... without swapping their shoes for sandals".

Foraging – searching for wild food resources – is one of the oldest survival skills, and Alan explains that in modern times it's become a romantic, and legal, way to reconnect with nature and the landscape, and even to understand where food comes from.

“It is amazing how much fruit we manage to collect in our spare time. Only last year the children and I harvested over 200 kilograms of delicious apples! All of them came from local trees, growing on public land,” says Alan, left.

The book is full of photographs, and an abundance of advice, tips on mapping and stacks of recipes for what to bake with the abundance of fresh fruit and nuts you could be picking.

Details
Book Title: the Urbane Forager: Fruit and Nuts for Free
Author: Alan Gibson
Foreword by Miles Irving, the Forager Handbook
ISBN. 978-1-78507-300-7
Blog: http://theurbaneforager.blogspot.co.uk/
Website: www.urbaneforager.btck.co.uk

Previously:
Bitterne Parker: Alan Gibson
Audio: the art of urbane foraging – Alan Gibson interviewed