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Josh’s Foraging Tip #1
Start in Your Own Backyard In order to begin gathering wild edibles, you must first learn to identify plants, whether edible or not, as positive identification is an essential foraging practice....
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Josh’s Foraging Tip #2
Be Willing to Try a New Food More Than Once I don’t know about you, but in my experience trying a new food isn’t always love at first bite. Sometimes I have to taste a wild plant, or a cultivated plant...
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Josh’s Foraging Tip #3
Attend a Wild Edibles Walk When I began my wild foods journey about a decade ago, I attended several walks in Massachusetts led by longtime forager and teacher Russ Cohen. Russ gifted me my first taste...
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Josh’s Foraging Tip #4
Embrace Scientific Names Knowing how to positively identify a plant is an essential foraging practice, and being able to name a plant precisely is a natural extension of this practice. As the common...
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Josh’s Foraging Tip #5
Keep a Foraging Journal The practice is simple: whenever you gather a wild food, make a note of what, where, and when you gather (e.g., first Common Dandelion leaves, backyard, 4/15/14). You might also...
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Josh’s Foraging Tip #6
Borrow or Buy a Book If, like me, you didn’t grow up surrounded by foragers, eating wild food at every meal, you may be hesitant to start nibbling the landscape. Maybe you’ve dabbled with some easy to...
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