There are many plants that we've grown accustomed to pulling out of our gardens because they are too strong and take out too many nutrients. Many of these plants are actually edible and highly nutritious. You probably have many of these growing in your yard.
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Amaranth
The leaves are best when young, they can be eaten raw, but taste better when steamed or sauteed.
Learn from Green Deane about Amaranth, a long-cultivated but also wild food, vegetable and grain. . . Vegetable Amaranth 1-2 feet high Grain Amaranth - much taller Leaves dark on to
The Redroot Pigweed is a type of Amaranth, that creates thousands of little black seeds. These seeds are edible, but the hard seed casing isn't very easy to cook with, as there is more undigestible se
Common name: Redroot pigweed Family: Amaranthaceae Height: Up to 6 ft. Foliage: Simple, alternate leaves with long petioles Flowers: Small, green with 3 spine-like bracts arranged into densly
Rumex Dock Sorrel Buckwheat
Leaves and seeds from all memebers of the Polygonaceae family are edible.
Learn from Green Deane how to identify and prepare Rumex (Sorrel) a spring time green and wild food around the world. eattheweeds.com . . Leaves look like a little sword Leaves turn pi
Height: Up to 3 ft. Foliage: Leaves broad, with nearly entire slightly wavy margin Flowers: Small greenish in dense clusters of ascending racemes Bloom time: June to September Habitat: Pasture
Garden Time - Don't Kill your Weeds, Eat Them Why apply chemicals to remove your weeds, when you can harvest them to eat! We wander through a backyard to assemble a salad with a plant expert
Chamerion Rosebay Willowherb It's called Fireweed because of it's ablility to establish itself after fires. It can also survive oil spills. It is a "Pioneer species". The leaves of firew
Water plant that looks like a lilypad. Miner's lettuce, Winter Purslane, Spring Beauty, and Indian lettuce. AKA: Montia perfoliata. VIDEO: Stalking Wild Greens: Miner's Lettuce Miner's let
Yellow Mini-sunflower Wildflower Weed, Yellow-green corollas, with no real petals. AKA: Disc Mayweed /Chamomilla suaveolens /Artemisia matricarioides The flowers have a chamomile/pineapple s
Dandelion All parts of the dandelion are nutritious. Most of the time the dandelion is very bitter, this can be remedied by cooking, boiling, etc.
This is the Dandelion in it's seed stage. Kids love to blow these seeds into the wind and make wishes while the air carries these little weed parachutes into the middle of your lawn. The leaves a
Height: Up to 12 in. Foliage: Variable in shape from lobeless or entire to deeply lobed with soft points Flowers: Yellow, strap shaped ray flowers, 100-300 per head Bloom time: May to June
The Taraxacum officinale or 'Dandelion' as it is commonly known, is considered a major pest or weed in North America. It is easily identified, and commonly known by most people. It is the little yello
Portulaca oleracea Common Purslane, AKA Verdolaga, Pigweed, Little Hogweed or Pusley It has a slightly sour and salty taste, Purslane is commonly eaten throughout Europe, Asia and Me
Oregon-grape (Mahonia aquifolium, Berberidaceae) is an evergreen shrub related to the barberry. The Oregon-grape is not closely related to grapes, but gets its name from the purple clusters of berr
Groudsel or Dandelion-like Aster. AKA Hare Thistles, Hare Lettuces, Puha, Rareke The stem contains a milky sap. Like the true thistles, sow thistles are in the family Asteraceae.
Foraging is one of the most empowering skills a person can have. Not only does it connect you to your environment, it enables you to utilize what is already around you, for free. Along with learning w
