Edible weeds are all around us, often unassuming, always resilient, and humble. These 12 edible and useful backyard weeds are easy to forage for. Most are wild plants you have likely seen your whole life without realizing how amazing they are. Learn all about these wild-growing, strong, edible, and useful weeds! Edible Backyard Weeds Weeds are…
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 edible, have herbal uses, and come up in late winter or early spring. Foraging for wild violets is easy, as they grow almost everywhere! Wild violets are a super useful flower, and easy to spot! Learn how to identify and forage for wild violets, and the many ways to use them in…
Foraging Yarrow: Identification, Look-alikes, and Uses
Yarrow is an amazing wild-growing edible and herbal 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! Foraging for Yarrow Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is a flowering perennial plant in the Asteraceae family, which is a very large family…
Chickweed Foraging: Identification, Look-alikes, and Uses
Chickweed is a highly nutritious edible and useful herbal 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. Foraging for Chickweed Ever since I’ve been a wild food forager I’ve always known about chickweed, but…
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 supportive plant, often called “nature’s band-aid.” From varieties of plantain to its edible and herbal uses, here’s everything you need to know…
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…
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…
Should You Save Dandelions for the Bees? 6 Things to Consider.
Have you ever heard that you should save dandelions for the bees? Here are some things to consider about dandelions and bees. Read on to learn more, 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 I…
Foraging for Purple Dead Nettle: an edible backyard weed
Purple dead nettle (Lamium purpureum) is an easily foraged edible plant that is likely growing in your backyard or nearby. Often considered a common “weed,” it has been traditionally used for both culinary and medicinal purposes, making it a good foraging opportunity this spring! Wildcrafting Weeds If you want to learn more about the edible…
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…
