"Some things in life are free - and delicious."

Welcome to the Forage Rangers website,

Our mission is to help people have fun outdoors hunting for wild foods anywhere plants can grow, from city parks, to country waysides and the sea shore.

We've got practical foraging hints to help you easily find and safely identify the best of the wild foods that grow all round us in Britain.

From August 2008, we will be running one and two-day foraging courses. On these courses, we will take you from Edinburgh out into the Scottish countryside to forage for wild foods. For more information, please click on "tours".

And we've got the recipes to turn the wild foods that you find into easy-to-cook delicious meals for the dinner table, like wild garlic pesto, nettle gnocchi with Cashel Blue sauce, or chicken soup with hand-picked shredded seaweed straight from the beach.

We write a regular column on foraging in the Daily Telegraph Weekend, and we are the authors of Seaweed and Eat It -  our foraging journal and recipe book published by Virgin.

We hope this site gives you a taste of what's waiting out there to be discovered...

If you want to see us foraging in action, watch BBC Two Scotland or Sky Channel on Fridays 7pm for 4 weeks from 16th May, or view the program online via the BBC iplayer at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/outdoors/programmes/landward/

Best wishes,

Fiona Houston and Xa Milne