These “Five Coffee Substitutes to Find in Wild Plants” can be foraged for in your garden, backyard and in the woods. During the great depression, families supplemented their limited grocery budget by herbal wildcrafting knowledge handed down generation by generation. The homesteaders who knew which plants were edible and delicious had healthier well fed children.
Adults love to drink their cups of coffee throughout the day, it is warm comfort in a mug.

Coffee is one of the most popular of all beverages consumed all across the US. Most people can identify coffee beans and ground beans in stores when the go shopping. However, there are actually a number of not so widely known plants that can be used to make coffee. Unfortunately, not a whole lot of people outside of the foraging community that would have any idea what they are. This article was designed to introduce the reader to some alternative plants that can be used to make a type of coffee.
