With the arrival of July comes the realization that 2025 is — somehow! — halfway over. As befits a month where many things ...

Richard Mabey‘s first book, Food for Free, a guide to foraging for wild plants published in 1972, is still in print, and still popular. Since that book debuted, he’s averaged a title a year, including ...

Richard Mabey's delightful new book "Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants" sings the praises of the pesky but resilient plants that will grow where nothing else will.

Mabey as a writer really knows how to let an anecdote rip across the page, and his sources... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo Skip to main content ...

If you're looking for weed-banishing advice, this is not your book, ... Books; Richard Mabey's 'Weeds' sees a purpose for the plants we demonize . Updated: Jul. 12, 2011, 11:00 a.m.

In “The Cabaret of Plants,” prolific writer and naturalist Richard Mabey writes about the many mysterious ways plants interact with their environments.

Richard Mabey’s Dreams of the Good Life (Allen Lane) is available from the Telegraph for £14.99 (plus £1.35 p&p). Caspar Henderson is the author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings (Granta) ...

No history of environmental campaigning in Britain would be complete without Richard Mabey. It is more than half a century since his first book, Food for Free (still in print) revived the ...

A 1936 photo depicts a man showing the underside of an enormous South American water lily, a Victoria regia, which is said to have inspired Sir Joseph Paxton’s design of London’s Crystal ...

In his latest book, The Accidental Garden, acclaimed nature writer Richard Mabey explores the creativity and ingenuity of plants, insects, birds and… ...