From the rediscovery of foraging that led to Food for Free, through his ground-breaking expeditions in the edgelands in the 1970s, to his reflections on the musicality of birdsong, Richard Mabey has consistently explored new ways of thinking about nature and its relation to our lives.
In Turning the Boat for Home, he introduces pieces from his rich writing life that reflect on how his ideas evolved.
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I like to think we run an open-door policy in our library at home in Norfolk. That is to say, on warm days in summer the door to the garden is actually open. Anyone’s welcome to come in for a...
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This morning, in the woods on Tooting Common, the sight of a young man plucking nettles and dropping them into a forage bag instantly reconnected me to my earlier life where ‘found food’ was a...
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