Well preserved has a tip for when you are picking dandelion flowers to make jelly or wine or some other recipe. They offer advice on the easiest way to get the petals and not the green parts.
Category Archive: Wild Food Foraging
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Jun 14
52 Plants In The Wild You Can Eat
My family survival plan brings us 52 different wild edibles. Some of these like purslane and dandelions I already knew about and have eaten but many of these I did not know were edible. Nice to learn in case its ever needed. The way grocery prices are going I may need this info sooner rather …
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Jun 08
Plantain, the amazing HERB/WEED growing in your yard!
Natural & Frugal Raising 6 Kids website shares multiple uses for Plantain. This article explains why you want to learn how to identify it, how to pick it and recipes to make for different purposes. I am fond of it because plantain is an anti-inflammatory, germ killer & helps heal wounds. Do you have a …
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May 31
How To Eat A Rose – Tips & Recipe Video
You can eat the petals off of any variety of rose, no matter their color or size. It is essential that they be un-sprayed by pesticides to be edible. Rose petals have different flavors. Some variety of roses taste like light sweet strawberries, while others taste slightly sour or spicy. The darker the color of …
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May 21
Harvesting and Roasting Yucca Fruits
If you live where there are yucca, Martin Survival shows you how to harvest and roast them. Sure doesn’t look like food but its free and if you ever needed to eat them at least with this video you would know how to eat them.
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May 17
Dandelion Fritters and Greens Cooking Recipe
Deep Roots At Home website shares a tasty dandelion fritters and greens recipe. You may not have to go far, maybe to just your front yard but it is still considered a foraged wild food. Please try this recipe once and you will be amazed at how truly flavorful it is. I look at dandelions …
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May 16
How To Process Acorns To Make Acorn Coffee
Taste Of Beirut website shares how to make coffee from acorns. Gathering acorns, how to process them and to brew them into a coffee. Being resourceful and learning how to forage for wild foods is an amazing skill that everyone should learn. We all may encounter hard times and having this kind of knowledge to …
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May 14
It’s Called Gleaning. No Relation To Glee.
Great article from NW edible on gleaning. “Gleaning (also called scrounging) is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers’ fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest. Some ancient cultures promoted gleaning as an early form of a welfare system..source.” She sort of …
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May 13
How to Make a Cattail Fluff Pillow
Simply Homemaking shares a tutorial on how to make a cattail fluff pillow. Cattails are a familiar sight along the shore of any marsh, pond, lake, or river. They can often be seen growing in ditches along roadsides. Cattails are tall, stiff plants, growing almost ten feet tall. The leaves look like giant blades of …
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May 10
Edible Flowers
Nice little video showing a variety of edible flowers. Daria Walton tells which ones you can eat and explain a little about how they taste. I love that she includes greens that have bolted. I am always so sorry to see them go but turns out the flowers are edible and taste the same as …
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