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Summer Foraging

Kick off your summer foraging expeditions with our foraging guides. You'll discover the joys of finding delicious berries and healthy herbs in the wild like Plantain, Mugwort, Lemon Balm, Mullein, even Cattails!

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Foraging for Self-Heal (Heal-All or Woundwort)

Self-heal is a common herb, a highly nutritious edible plant, and a medicinal powerhouse. Also known as heal-all or woundwort, these plants have historically been used for centuries for a variety of healing and health-beneficial purposes. Self-heal is easy to identify and forage, and has many uses for modern herbalists! Wildcrafting Weeds If you want…

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12 Edible and Medicinal Weeds to Forage in Your Backyard

Edible weeds are all around us, often unassuming, always resilient, humble, and beneficial. These 12 edible and medicinal backyard weeds are easy to forage for, as most are wild plants you have likely seen your whole life without realizing how amazing they are.  Learn and benefit from these wild-growing, strong, nutritious, edible, and medicinal weeds!…

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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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Foraging for Elderberries & Elderflowers: Identification, Look-alikes, & Uses

Well, the season is now upon us… what season, do you ask? Elderberry season! This extremely important wild edible and medicinal plant starts getting ripe berries any time from July to September, depending on your specific location and elevation. Here in southern Oregon elderberries are perfect from mid August to early September. Before the berries,…

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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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Foraging St. John’s Wort + How to Make St. John’s Wort Oil & Salve

When the sunny yellow flowers of St. John’s wort start to appear then I know that summer is here! It is such an unassuming little plant that often grows along roadsides, but it is a powerful herbal ally. It is a great plant to know how to forage for, as it grows nearly everywhere and…

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Sonoran Desert Foraging: What to Forage in Summer

While it may not seem like there is much to forage in the desert, there are quite a few edible and medicinal plants that have been used throughout history! Learn about Sonoran Desert foraging and what is available in the summer in this sparse but beautiful desert region. Wildcrafting Weeds If you want to learn…

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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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Poison Hemlock: How to Identify and Potential Look-alikes

When out foraging for edible and medicinal plants, it is just as important—if not more so—to know how to identify the poisonous plants that grow in your region. Poison hemlock (Conium maculatum) is one of those that everyone should know how to identify, as it can be quite prolific in some areas. Wildcrafting Weeds If…

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Foraging for Wild Fennel

I’ve been visiting family on the central California coast, which has been wonderful. I always like going to other parts of the country to see what I can forage, and the temperature here is so mild that you can pretty much find edible or medicinal plants year round. Late spring and summer is when the…

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