Learn how to identify, harvest, and prepare the most delicious, abundant, and nourishing plants around—edible wild weeds and invasives. These wild herbs pack a medicinal punch and make for tasty, sustainable nutrient-dense dishes.
Some of the most nutrient-rich foods can be gathered for free in your yard or neighborhood. Check out the many edible wild greens you can forage!
Forage edible plants right from your own backyard with this guide to common 'weeds' that you can eat and that also double as herbal remedies.
Lambsquarters (Chenopodium album) is a fast growing wild weed that's easy to find and identify worldwide. Also known as wild spinach, the leaves are tender, sweet and delicious. Since it's a close relative to cultivated
These inspiring spruce tip recipes will help you make the most of this ephemeral foraged food. Spruce tip syrup, pesto, ice cream & more!
Spring is a great time for foraging! Learn what to forage in spring with this list of 20 edible and medicinal plants and fungi. Spring foraging is fun!
Dandelion greens have made their way into the supermarket, but what about the roots? Dandelion roots are both nutritious and edible. They can be foraged in the early spring before the plants send up flower
Spring is a great time for foraging! Learn what to forage in spring with this list of 20 edible and medicinal plants and fungi. Spring foraging is fun!
I've always wondered... How "hit or miss" were our ancestors when it came to foraging for food? After all, someone had to be the first person to try
Dandelion greens recipes use these wild and free spring greens that you can harvest in any unsprayed yard (or purchase by the bundle at the health food store). When people think of dandelions, the bright
Pine needle soda is a naturally fermented drink with foraged ingredients, also called pine needle sprite. It's light, bright, and refreshing! This recipe makes one 16 oz bottle.
Dandelions seem to take over every spring. Since we can't beat them, we might as well eat them...and drink them and wear them, too.
Learn how to forage for foods in season in spring, how to identify wild garlic, and try this deliciously easy recipe for wild garlic pesto. Includes a free printable wild garlic nature journal page. Wild Garlic Pesto Recipe Foraging 101 Foraging means to gather food from the wild: from woodland, hedgerows, fields, and rivers. It’s […]
Wild nuts aren't just for the squirrels, they're an abundant and nutrient-dense wild food that's just waiting for the harvest. Keep an eye out for these delicious wild protein sources and pack them away for winter
Miner's lettuce is a wild-growing edible weed that is highly nutritious. It's loaded with vitamin C and minerals and has medicinal properties.
Flour made from wild plants existed long before agriculture, and many of them have a lot more flavor and nutrition than storebought flour. While leavened bread is a product of modern agriculture and civilization, flour
Spring is a great time for foraging! Learn what to forage in spring with this list of 20 edible and medicinal plants and fungi. Spring foraging is fun!
Pineapple weed vinegar is an easy to make DIY wild foraged herbal vinegar with a delightful pineapple flavor.
Dandelion flowers have many uses! Here are over 50 dandelion recipes for drinks, sweets, savories, bath and body, and remedies.
Edible wild greens start popping up in early spring and are plentiful and easy to forage. They're nutritious, delicious, and free!
Purple dead nettle is an easy to forage edible and medicinal plant that is most likely growing in your backyard or somewhere nearby!
Dandelion seeds are edible! Every part of the dandelion plant is edible, and the seeds are no exception. Believe it or not, it's easy to harvest the seeds and separate them from the fluff, and
Fiddlehead ferns (Matteuccia struthiopteris) are a delicious wild foraged spring treat that's easy to find and identify in the spring season. The first time I came across fiddleheads was at a farmer's market, and I'll
Edible pine needles make very tasty cookies, drinks, and syrups! Get all of the foraged pine needle recipes you need here.
Edible wild greens start popping up in early spring and are plentiful and easy to forage. They're nutritious, delicious, and free!
Stinging nettle is a highly nutritious edible and medicinal plant with many benefits. Here are some delicious stinging nettle recipes!
Goldenrod is helpful for making salves for sore muscles, tea for your kidneys, and may be useful for respiratory woes.
This post includes affliate links, read here how these work. My little picky eater happily munches blackthorn berries from the hedgerows. She won't touch a banana. Or an orange. But hand picked sourer-than-lemon sloes she
Pineapple weed, also known as wild chamomile, is easy to forage for. It is a common plant that is edible and had many medicinal benefits!
Learn about what to forage in fall! Autumn is an abundant time for foraging and wildcrafting. Fall foraging includes berries, nuts, roots, and mushrooms.
Black Locust is a fun, edible tree with stunning white blossoms each spring. Foragers and bees alike love the flavor each spring, and they're fragrant enough that you can find the trees blindfolded. Black locust
Flour made from wild plants existed long before agriculture, and many of them have a lot more flavor and nutrition than storebought flour. While leavened bread is a product of modern agriculture and civilization, flour
Dandelion seeds are edible! Every part of the dandelion plant is edible, and the seeds are no exception. Believe it or not, it's easy to harvest the seeds and separate them from the fluff, and
Foraging is a great excuse to get outside and reconnect with nature in the first days of spring. Winter foods are weighing heavy on our stomachs, and it's time for something fresh...and green. Well before
Make this refreshing nettle iced tea with foraged stinging nettles!
After foraging for chickweed make this super tasty chickweed pesto! Chickweed is a very nutritious wild green and this pesto is a delicious way to enjoy it.
Stinging nettle is a highly nutritious edible and medicinal plant with many benefits. Here are some delicious stinging nettle recipes!
Every time we walk through the outdoors we’re stepping over potential food sources. Underneath the soil level are an entire ecosystem of microbes, bacteria, subterranean creatures, and wild edible roots. Join us as we take a look at some easily identified, nutritious roots to forage.
Dandelion flowers have many uses! Here are over 50 dandelion recipes for drinks, sweets, savories, bath and body, and remedies.
Dandelion recipes keep things wild in the kitchen in early spring, and there's nothing like bright fresh blossoms and zesty wild greens after a long winter of heavy food. Dandelions are exciting to backyard foragers
Pine needle soda is a naturally fermented drink with foraged ingredients, also called pine needle sprite. It's light, bright, and refreshing! This recipe makes one 16 oz bottle.
Go foraging for dandelion greens, then make this bright and nutritious dandelion pesto!
Dive into our guide on harvesting mullein. Learn the best practices for collecting, drying, storing, and utilizing mullein for its medicinal properties.
Wild nuts aren't just for the squirrels, they're an abundant and nutrient-dense wild food that's just waiting for the harvest. Keep an eye out for these delicious wild protein sources and pack them away for winter
Wild spinach (also called lambs quarters or goosefoot) is a tasty and versatile edible wild plant that's probably growing in your garden already. Here's what to know about identifying and foraging wild spinach. #foraging #ediblewildplants
