About Robin Harford

Robin is a contemplative ecologist, ethnobotanical researcher and wild food educator.

He is the author of the bestselling Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland. Over 55,000 copies sold.

He established his wild food foraging school in 2008, and his foraging courses are listed at the top of BBC Countryfile’s ‘Best foraging courses in the UK’.

Robin is the creator of eatweeds.co.uk, which is listed in The Times Top 50 websites for food and drink.

He has travelled extensively, documenting and recording wild food plants’ traditional and local uses in indigenous cultures. His work has taken him to Africa, India, SE Asia, Europe and the USA.

Robin occasionally appears on national and local radio and television. He has been recommended in BBC Good Food magazine, Sainsbury’s magazine, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, etc.

He is a member of the Society of Ethnobotany, the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, and the Herb Society.