Welcome to Edible Wild Food

Are you concerned about the quality of today’s food choices? Does the increasing cost of food leave you with no choice but to buy more processed food? Or are you concerned that the next storm is going to take down the grid for a period of time? Foraging for food is your answer!

Welcome to EdibleWildFood.com. Here you will learn about edible weeds (including aquatic plants), mushrooms, trees and shrubs, flowers, wild food recipes, and valuable information about herbal remedies and other related information.

EdibleWildFood.com offers courses, plant walks, workshops and other unique experiences tailored to the needs of your group. Learn the wonders of natural foods, the tastes of wild plants and the delights in our forests.

Benefits of Wild Edible Plants

There are numerous benefits to eating wild edibles such as:

• They are free.
• They are genetically stronger than other food.
• Longer root systems make most weeds drought-resistant.
• Most edible plants and weeds are more nutritious than hybridized store produce.
• Eating local wild plants means that the plant fights off the same organisms as your body therefore making them highly beneficial for the immune system.
• Wildcrafting (picking your own) edibles means you get exercise, vitamin D (sunshine) and get to be in a natural, relaxing setting.

What's New

Check back here on a regular basis for our latest additions and news.

• A tasty treat with an evergreen twist: gluten-free spruce tip cookies.
• A common shrub that is one of the first to bloom in springtime, red elderberry.
• A perennial plant in the Aristolochiaceae family that grows in colonies, wild ginger.
• A saprobic and parasitic fungi that grows in solitary or in groups on decaying wood or living trees, red belted polypore.
• A brownish, edible mushroom that grows similar to the Hen-of-the-Woods: black staining polypore.
• A savory and satisfying soup, miso morel soup.
• A good source of vitamin D, B3, copper, and potassium, and a prized delicacy in Japanese cuisine: matsutake mushrooms.
• Often the first morel to appear on south-facing slopes during spring, black morel.
• A unique shrub that is literally armed to the teeth: devil's club (only buds in springtime are edible).
• An edible yet highly decorative and colorful flower: pansy.