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Spring Foraging

Spring is one of the easiest times to go foraging because who doesn't enjoy being outside in pleasant weather after a long winter of being cooped up indoors? Get started foraging today with our Spring Foraging Guide.

Soon you'll be happily harvesting plants like Yarrow, Dandelion Root, Nettles, even Easy to Identify Edible Mushrooms!

Foraging for Wild Violets: an edible early spring flower

Wild violets are both edible and medicinal and come up in the late winter or early spring. Foraging for wild violets is easy as they grow almost everywhere! Wild violets are an edible and medicinal flower, and easy to spot! Learn how to identify and forage for wild violets, and the many ways to use…

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Foraging Yarrow: Identification, Look-alikes, and Uses

Yarrow is an amazing edible and medicinal plant that is very common. Here is everything you need to know about foraging yarrow, a powerful plant you might have growing in your own backyard! Wildcrafting Weeds If you want to learn more about the edible and medicinal weeds that surround us and how to use them,…

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Chickweed Foraging: Identification, Look-alikes, and Uses

Chickweed is a highly nutritious edible and medicinal weed that grows nearly everywhere. Foraging for chickweed is easy, and it may even be growing in your backyard! Read more to learn how to identify and use chickweed. Wildcrafting Weeds If you want to learn more about the edible and medicinal weeds that surround us and…

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Foraging Plantain: Identification and Uses

Even if you don’t know this plant by name, you’ve almost definitely seen plantain growing in the wild before! Typically dismissed as a weed, plantain has a long history of use as a healing plant, often called “nature’s band-aid.” From varieties of plantain to its edible and medicinal uses, here’s everything you need to know…

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Dandelion Foraging: Identification, Look-alikes, and Uses

I don’t think I need to show anyone what dandelions look like. But I bet you don’t know all the wonderful uses that they have! They truly are the perfect Grow Forage Cook Ferment plant, and then some. They are so incredibly versatile, yet also plentiful. You know what I mean as I’m sure that…

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What to Forage in Spring: 20 Edible and Medicinal Plants and Fungi

Spring is the season of new beginnings and new growth. As the temperature starts to warm up and everything begins to thaw from the winter, spring foraging options increase! This is the time of year for fresh salad greens, tasty spring flowers and shoots, medicinal plants, and a few edible mushrooms. This list of what…

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6 Reasons You Don’t Need to Save Dandelions for the Bees

This may come as a surprise for many, but the truth is that you actually don’t need to save dandelions for the bees! Read on to learn why, and what plants and flowers you should be saving for bees instead. Do we really need to save dandelions for the bees? With all of the posts…

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Foraging for Purple Dead Nettle: an edible backyard weed

Purple dead nettle is an easy to forage edible and medicinal plant that is most likely growing in your backyard or somewhere nearby! You’ve probably seen this “weed” and didn’t even know that it has edible and medicinal uses. Wildcrafting Weeds If you want to learn more about the edible and medicinal weeds that surround…

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Foraging and Using Birch: Bark, Leaves, & Sap

Birch trees are one of my fall and winter foraging favorites, and they have many edible and medicinal parts! In this post I’ll focus on the different parts of the birch tree you can forage, as well as how to be mindful of the tree’s health and longevity. Read on to learn more about foraging…

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Foraging for Pineapple Weed (Wild Chamomile) + Pineapple Weed Tea

One aspect about foraging that I absolutely love is when I discover a plant that I’ve seen for years, since childhood even, is edible and medicinal! This was the case with pineapple weed, also known as wild chamomile. When I learned several years ago that it can be used in the same way as its…

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