There are a ton of plants in your area that you can forage and eat, and they’re delicious. Whether it’s berries that you can eat as-is or use in deserts, or wild edibles that you can toss into a salad, we’ll tell you everything about how to recognize them and forage for them.
When you’re living off the land, there’s a wide variety of edible plants from which you can choose to eat. On the other hand, there’s also a wide variety of inedible plants which will make you very sick (or worse) if ingested. With that in mind, it’s important to know what you’re eating. When it
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Strawberries are a popular fruit commonly used in desserts. The mixed sweet and sour flavor is perfect for a variety of sweet treats including jams, preserves, cakes, pies, strawberries and cream and chocolate fondue. What about wild strawberries though? Even though they grow all across North America, we’re commonly taught that if you don’t know
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Most of us can’t grow our own coffee, but we can easily find this wild coffee substitute! Cleavers, Galium aparine, is a fast growing weed that can be found in damp areas and along fence lines. The plant has narrow lance shaped leaves that are very sticky. Cleavers is also sometimes referred to as “nature’s velcro”
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Easily found in many areas, Japanese knotweed has a slightly tangy flavor that makes it useful in any recipe calling for rhubarb. In the Spring, Japanese Knotweed comes into season. Also known as Fallopia japonica, it can be identified by simple leaves that alternate and appear to be a broad oval. Other names for the
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Learning to forage for your food is perfect for keeping your reliance off of others and on yourself. In the Spring and Summer, you will find a lot of edible plants, flowers, and roots to stock your own pantry with. The best part is that you can even plant some of these yourself, and have
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Crabapples or Malus sylesris, can often be found along fields in wooded areas. When cultivated in the home orchard or garden, crabapples grow up on trees that can reach up to 25 feet in height. The flowers of the crabapples begin as white, light pink to dark pink, and purple blossoms. The crabapple fruit will
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As the weather turns from bitter cold to warm, wet Spring, there will be lots of growth in fields, forests and your backyard. Many will be delicious edibles, mushrooms to go foraging for and just waiting to be enjoyed. I love foraging for morels and pheasant back mushrooms especially. They are a family favorite with
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In the Spring, you can find lots of yummy plants to enjoy. From green plants to yummy, ripe fruits, there’s a plethora of food to be found, if you just look. Growing along the sunny banks and around a forest edge, or even in your own backyard, wild strawberries are delicious. You can also find
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One of my new favorite items to forage for is chanterelles. This convex shaped, yellow to orange yellow mushroom can grow to be 1-10 inches across at the cap. When they are freshly picked, they have a delicious sweet scent, almost like apricots. The stalk is smooth, has no bulb around the base or ring and
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Are you curious about foraging and using yarrow? This is a plant with countless benefits – so let’s dive in! Personally, we love using, growing and foraging for yarrow. Yarrow, Achillea millefolium, is a green fern-like foliage with tiny flowers ranging in different colors. It can grow between ankle and knee height, and may allude
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