This chapter provides an overview of food plant gathering in mainland France today. After identifying a sample of 484 species of tracheophytes likely to be gathered for food uses, it shows using numerous examples that wild plant species for food purposes and the ways in which they are gathered fall into different categories with blurred boundaries—various food uses, food but also therapeutic uses, wild plants that are sometimes also cultivated, amateur for self-consumption or professional and commercial gathering, etc. It also looks at the issue of the sustainability of gathering in terms of measures to protect gathered species, as well as the knowledge and skills required for this activity. In conclusion, he discusses some of the political implications of this activity.