Originally Posted by Tina

I'm at the very early stages of learning about tortoise nutrition but it seems that toxicity is the first issue (so yes if safe for humans then safe for tortoises) but then there's the issue of whether a plant is high in certain things (oxalates which inhibit calcium absorption for example) so in that case not necessarily as safe for torts to eat as humans. The group I tend to go on to learn about nutrition is a yahoo group called TortsNutrition which you should join if you have an interest in this. It was you that mentioned Ray Mears wasn't it? Funnily enough I looked at his Wild Food book in the Garden Centre earlier today and thought that it had some really useful info in that I could use when feeding the torts but didn't have time to look through it properly. I think I'll go back at the weekend and have another look and purchase it if it's as good as I think.