Identifying edible plants

Edible weeds are a great way to increase the foods you grow- and consume- without any additional work on your part. Here's a list of 15 edible weeds to try!

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Edible wild plants include more than just the occasional harvest of wild blackberries and dandelion greens. Serious foragers seek out all manner of unique edible wild foods, from greens and herbs, to berries, roots, bark,

Beware of those bright colored fruits growing in the wild, because they may be edible berries, or they could be fatally toxic.

Common purslane is a highly nutritious edible and medicinal plant that readily grows. Learn to find, identify, use and purslane!

One of my favorite fall wild edibles is a pain to crack open, but well worth the trouble. If you can break into the armored fortress that is a hickory nut, you won't be disappointed. The fatty nut meats of most species are rich, oily, and pecan-flavored. This flavor shouldn’t be a surprise since pecans are a southern species of hickory. Here’s how to identify and use the highest calorie wild plant food in the U.S.

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I have been messing around with edible wild plants for many years. There are various schools of thought on foraging edible plants, and after all these years I have, of course, developed my own. I like weeds that grow just about everywhere. Weeds that are easy to identify and are easily picked without digging things up, finding roots, or requiring undue processing. That is why I probably consider myself A Practical Weedivore.When studying the use of some wild plants, you will find there are…