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Wild Edibles add Great Nutritional Value to Your Raw and Living Food Diet
“Edible wild plants are everywhere, abundant, local, free, and a sustainable source of variety in the diet. Support your local organic farmers, pull their weeds by the bushel-full, and eat them!” --Dr. John Kallas, Director, Institute for the Study of Edible Wild Plants & Other Foragables
Foraging for wild edibles is an excellent way to add nutrition to your diet without cost. Dandelion greens are everywhere. Did you know that they are packed with stuff that’s good for the body?
Raw Foodist and Free Wild Food Advocate Markus Rothkranz sells a 5 DVD Video program on finding and identifying wild edible foods in your backyard and vacant city lots.
John Kallas has some videos on the basics of foraging. He teaches how important it is to learn about foraging before eating any plant.
It’s important to know what you’re finding when you forage because you shouldn’t eat something if you don’t know what it is.
A great way to identify plants is with Sergei Boutenko’s iPhone app.
Sergei also has put together a video series on common wild edibles. We highly recommend watching this video series. He gives lots of great free information.
Before you start to forage and add these excellent wild edible foods into your raw diet, it's important that you get a very good pictorial guide in full color of the wild plants in your area. We highly recommend Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate! It is by far the most complete and lucid of the wild edible identifying books out there! Even Sergei Boutenko, after spending three days foraging with John Kallas, says "While I considered myself somewhat of a wild edible expert, I was humbled by the plethora of new plants that I had yet to discover."
If you can, also take classes in foraging in spring, summer, and fall so that you can identify with certainty the edible wild plants in your area during all of the growing seasons.
In addition to this information, Wild Plants for Medicine and Food provides some great articles about uses of plants and how to find them.
Where to Buy Edible Wild Plants
If you're too timid or busy to forage for your own edible wild plants, here's where to buy them.
Earthy Delights offers fiddleheads, morels and wild leeks from the Northern Michigan woods.
WildPantry.com specializes in wild, edible plants of Southeastern US including greens, roots, flowers, mushrooms, berries, and seeds.
For additional books on identifying and foraging for or harvesting wild plants, seaweeds and mushrooms, click here!
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