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A FIELD GUIDE TO FORAGING

PETER LANGLANDS is one of New Zealand’s only licensed professional foragers. His book Foraging New Zealand describes the 250 edible plants and fungi you’re most likely to find in the wild, handpicked from his database of more than 7000 species.

Why foraging?

I’ve always liked to immerse myself in the outdoors in an interactive way. Around 2015 I gravitated from doing endangered bird research to

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