About Foraging Maps

Foraging Maps is the UK's map and reference guide for wild food foraging - real, public-access spots for woodland, hedgerow and coastal foraging, plus species identification that treats dangerous look-alikes as the most important part of the page, not an afterthought.

It exists because most foraging content online falls into one of two traps: forum threads and blog posts with no real sourcing, or species guides that undersell how serious a misidentification can be. This site is built the other way round - every spot is a real, verifiable public-access location, and every species page is researched against real UK references (RHS, Woodland Trust, Wild Food UK, NHS, FSA, Cefas) with sources listed, not written from memory.

There's no charge, no account needed to browse, and no plan to add one.

Where the data comes from

Spot locations are sourced from OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, and the land manager's own site (Woodland Trust, National Trust, Forestry England, or the relevant local authority) - each spot page links to its source. Species identification and safety information is sourced from RHS, Woodland Trust, Wild Food UK, NHS, FSA and Cefas, listed at the bottom of each species page.

This is a growing map - new spots and species are added over time. Know a genuinely public foraging spot that isn't listed yet? Add it.