Don't bypass edible plants, nuts, and even insects! Learn how to forage. Here are the basics for getting started on this fun survival skill.
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!
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!
Winter foraging in a cold climate is a great outdoor family self-reliance activity. Here are 65+ wild foods to find - what's missing? Let me know and I may add your suggestions!
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.
Goldenrod is helpful for making salves for sore muscles, tea for your kidneys, and may be useful for respiratory woes.
These 8 edible mushrooms are easy to identify and are great for beginning mushroom hunters. Learn how to forage for wild mushrooms!
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
Just about everyone knows what ginger looks like and that it's a tropical plant. Before modern international trade, fresh ginger was a real treat. Early colonists in the US found a tasty substitute that that
Self-heal is a common herb, a highly nutritious edible plant, and a medicinal powerhouse that is also known as heal-all or woundwort.
Foraging wild grains and seeds was once a way of life for humans around the globe. There are literally hundreds of species of edible seeds, far more than the cultivated grains that make up our
Are you intrigued with the idea of foraging but intimidated by where to start? Foraging can be safe and a basketful of fun!
3 wonderful spring foraging recipes made with edible weeds that everyone can identify, and that kids will love to make and eat
Discover the best books on Northeast foraging! Explore a curated list of my favorite resources for identifying and preparing wild edibles and medicinal plants in the Northeastern part of the US. Enhance your foraging adventures with these invaluable guides.
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 […]
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!
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
Edible wild berries and fruit are some of the most rewarding things to find when you're out foraging wild edible plants. Wild berries and fruits often don't require preparation and cooking, unlike roots and greens.
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.
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
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!
Foraging wild grains and seeds was once a way of life for humans around the globe. There are literally hundreds of species of edible seeds, far more than the cultivated grains that make up our
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
Edible wild greens start popping up in early spring and are plentiful and easy to forage. They're nutritious, delicious, and free!
Edible wild plants include more than just the occasional harvest of wild blackberries and dandelion greens. Serious foragers seek out all manner of unique edible wild foods, from greens and herbs, to berries, roots, bark,
Queen Anne's lace is a pretty flower also known as wild carrot. It's edible and medicinal with distinct identifying factors and many uses.
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!
Learn about what to forage in fall! Autumn is an abundant time for foraging and wildcrafting. Fall foraging includes berries, nuts, roots, and mushrooms.
Did you know wild violets are edible, medicinal, and fun to cook with? Check out these 25 creative wild violet recipes!
Foraging for wild food is an important homestead tool. If you are able to ID common wild edible plants, you will always have food & medicine.
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.
Did you know there are dozens of wild herbs you can forage? Find out the best herbs to find growing wild throughout the year.
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
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!
Edible wild greens start popping up in early spring and are plentiful and easy to forage. They're nutritious, delicious, and free!
Edible wild plants and herbs have so much to offer. Learn wildcrafting to help you explore the visual characteristics of plant and more. Check it out here!
Want to start foraging for food? Check out these wildcrafting tips for beginners from Turning the Clock Back.
Clover is a widely available edible wild plant with medicinal uses. Here's what to know about identifying and using edible clover.
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!
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.
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!
Edible wild plants include more than just the occasional harvest of wild blackberries and dandelion greens. Serious foragers seek out all manner of unique edible wild foods, from greens and herbs, to berries, roots, bark,
Edible pine needles make very tasty cookies, drinks, and syrups! Get all of the foraged pine needle recipes you need here.
