This chapter for the Routledge Handbook of Food and Landscape (2018) addresses the place of one of the oldest human landscape practices – foraging – in a world where the business of nourishment and the lands that produce foodstuffs continue to be developed on relentlessly industrial lines. Arguing that foraging, agriculture and hunting are, in practice, less clearly separable than might initially be supposed, I examine key writings on foraging from the Middle Ages to the present day and use them to frame contemporary examples of foraging practice, including my own.