Are cities just a concrete desert filled with exhaust fumes and dog poop on every corner? Not by chance! Aside from shopping malls and high streets, surprisingly healthy treasures of the plant kingdom can be discovered in every city. All you have to do is find the courage to start looking.
In this book, we will introduce you to free-growing edible plants that can be found not only in nature, but also on built-up areas. You will also find here all sorts of important tips on when to collect herbs, when to harvest fruits and how to process it all.
Go discover edible nature in your surroundings!
• Local and seasonal crops: While avocados, goji and cashew nuts travel to us across half the globe, tasty fruits and plants with many nutrients can be found almost all year round right behind the barn - and without plastic packaging.
• Much healthier than popular superfoods: Wild fruits and wild herbs contain far more health benefits than supermarket fruits and vegetables, and even surpass many exotic superfoods!
• Thanks to harvesting, you can save money and still have fun: You don't have to go far, and you can still enrich your diet, strengthen your bond with the immediate surroundings, and at the same time spend time in the fresh air.
On the German platform mundraub.org, registered collectors of wild crops exchange information about sites, organize joint plantings and harvests and learn from each other. This platform thus serves as an inspiration to extend the idea of ​​joint ownership to other areas of life. Collecting wild crops will make you happy and enrich your life with natural culinary experiences. In the Czech Republic, the na-ovoce.cz platform works similarly.

Harvesting and collecting wild delicacies in the city almost certainly sounds paradoxical, but in practice you may encounter them almost everywhere - just look carefully around you!
And the best part is that the collected wild plants do not need plastic packaging or long transport, that they contain many more vital substances than ordinary vegetables from the supermarket and that they cost you nothing.