Find. Forage. Enjoy.

The field guide is a reference to the wild plants foragers actually record across the UK — 340+ illustrated entries, and growing. Each one covers what the plant looks like through the year, where it grows, when it's worth harvesting, and what to leave alone. You get identification characteristics, habitat, harvest season, and the hazards and care that matter before anything goes in your basket.

Every entry has a "commonly confused with" section, because the difference between a good find and a dangerous one is often a lookalike. Toxic species are named and graded by severity, so you can see at a glance whether a mistake means an upset stomach or a hospital visit.

The guide isn't separate from the map — it's joined to it. From any entry you can jump to where that species has been found near you, turning a description into a place you can walk to. Browse the field guide.

When you're standing over a plant and not sure what it is, you have three ways to name it. Search the catalogue by name or characteristic. Add your own entry if it's something the guide doesn't cover yet. Or use Pl@ntNet photo identification, which reads a photo and returns ranked species suggestions for you to check against the guide.

Whichever route you take, the app records how each find was identified. That keeps the shared map honest: a pin you place from confident first-hand knowledge and a pin from an AI suggestion aren't the same thing, and the app doesn't pretend they are.

Found something worth remembering? Drop a pin where you're standing, add a photo and notes, and mark whether it's private to you or shared with other foragers. Each find keeps a What3Words address for the exact spot, and the app can give you a bearing and distance to navigate back to it later — so the blackberry patch you found in August is easy to return to next year.

Your log is as much a personal record as a contribution. Notes, photos and conditions build up over time into your own map of the places you've come to know.

You decide, for every find, whether it's private or shared. Private finds stay off the public map — they're yours, for your own record. Shared finds appear on the map at the spot where you dropped the pin, so treat sharing as deliberate: share the finds you're happy for other foragers to see, and keep the sensitive patches private.

Photos you add are handled the same way. When you upload a photo, its embedded metadata — including any GPS location the camera recorded — is removed before the image leaves your phone, so a shared photo doesn't quietly carry the coordinates of where it was taken.

The app runs with no permissions at all if you'd rather. Without location access you can search any town or postcode to find yourself on the map, and you can still log a find by setting its location by hand. Without photo access you can log a find without a photo. Granting location does make it easier, since the map opens where you are, but nothing is required to browse the map or the field guide.

The map's job is to answer one question: what can I actually pick near me, right now? By default it shows what's croppable this season, so you're not walking out to a spot that won't be ready for months. You can filter by plant type, by readiness, or by forager, and search anywhere in the UK by town or postcode to plan a trip before you leave the house.

Because the map is built from real finds logged by real people, it reflects the ground rather than a static database — the more foragers log, the better the picture for everyone.

A find isn't a one-off. Foragers can record what a plant is doing on a given day — in leaf, in flower, fruiting, ripe, or nothing there today — and those observations keep the map's seasonal status current. A spot that was ripe last week and stripped bare this week tells the next person the truth, not last month's optimism.

Over a season, these updates turn the map from a list of locations into a living account of what's happening across the country.

Foraging well means knowing where you shouldn't pick as much as where you can. The map flags known restricted zones — Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) and other designated or protected sites — as coloured areas you can see before you set out. Tap a zone and you get its designation, the official source it's drawn from, and what the restriction means in practice. The app is deliberately cautious here: a flagged zone means "check before you forage," never "you may forage here," and it asks you to verify against local guidance, because designations change and no map replaces the landowner's rules.

Alongside the map, a plain-English guide to UK foraging law explains your rights and responsibilities — what the law actually says about picking for personal use, landowner permission, and protected species. Read the UK foraging law guide.

Foraging is often social, and the app lets you keep it that way on your own terms. Create a private group, invite people by email, and pool your finds on a shared community map that only members can see. If you'd rather find your people, you can discover local groups within 50 miles — or stay entirely invite-only and keep your group closed.

Every feature described here is included. There's no subscription, no paywall, no ads, and no premium tier holding features back. You don't even need an account to browse the map and the field guide — you only sign up when you want to log your own finds.