The Salad of Many Things is Miles Irving’s pièce de résistance for getting the benefits of edible wild plants into people’s diet. Since each wild plant is a power house of micronutrients and health promoting ‘phytonutrients chemicals’ when you combine lots of them them into a single salad and eat it, you ingest thousands and thousands of bioactive compounds in one go. Coupled with the high fibre content of most wild plants you also tick both boxes for ‘how to enhance your gut microbiome’ as recommended by the latest research: 1. Eat many different plants and 2. Eat more fibre.