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 new main dish that combines ramps and sweet rocket: mouthwatering wild leek cannelloni.
• Lemon pairs well with nettles to make stinging nettle cake, a nutritious, mouthwatering snack.
• A low-growing, spreading, rhizomatous shrub with shiny, evergreen leaves: wintergreen.
• A plant that's native to South America (principally the Parana River region), alligator weed.
• Two new delectable recipes: fermented apple sauce and sunchoke fruit cake.
• A new vegan soup recipe that has a rich, nutty and absolutely delicous flavor: vegan sunchoke soup.
• A couple of recipes that are great for the immune system: Elderberry Ginger Syrup and Elderberry Ginger Soda.
• A plant with a thick, branching tap root that is native to North America, aniseroot.
• An herbaceous perennial plant in the Asteraceae (sunflower) family, jerusalem artichoke.
• A wind and drought tolerant plant that is one of the tallest in the aloe family, bitter aloe.