Backyard foraging

There is more food around us than we often know. Edible weeds are an easy and free way to expand your culinary repertoire. Here are 21 weeds you can forage.

Edible weeds are all around us, and they are often medicinal too. Here are 12 easy to forage for, wild-growing, strong, and nutritious weeds!

Take the harvest basket out to enjoy the outdoors and early spring foraging for food and medicine to fill the pantry and medicine cabinet.

Goldenrod is helpful for making salves for sore muscles, tea for your kidneys, and may be useful for respiratory woes.

Learn how to identify and use common wild edible weeds that might be growing in your backyard with this eBook: Wildcrafting Weeds: 20 Easy to Forage Edible and Medicinal Weeds.

Plantain is amazing! Forage for and use this common backyard weed! You'll never spray it again! The Homesteading Hippy

Did you know there are dozens of wild herbs you can forage? Find out the best herbs to find growing wild throughout the year.

Miner's lettuce is mild, fresh, crunchy, and succulent. It's one of my favorite spring greens, and it's as nutritious as it is delicious.

Rose hips are persistent fruits so you have plenty of time to harvest. Start when they first look ripe and continue until after frost.

Just about everyone knows what ginger looks like and that it's a tropical plant. Before modern international trade, fresh ginger was a real treat. Early colonists in the US found a tasty substitute that that