Wild Edible Plants -
Wild Foods For Superfood Nutrition!

Why Wild Edible Plants?

Wild edible plants are the wild superheros of the natural world. They have persevered through the ages and hold vital stores of nutrition to help us adapt to the earth's cycles and changes.

Edible wild plants have the energy and potency of a survivor that is thriving with unmatched life force!

Today, as we find most of our foods from the local produce store, wild edible plants can get lost to the natural hills or passed along the roadside.

They are making a comeback, however, and more and more people are taking a look down at the ground at this "wilder side" of life for a number of reasons.

There is Nothing Like Wild Foods!

• They are completely different from anything cultivated or hybridized.
• They do not require or need care by human hand and grow only in places that provide the highest quality nutrition to support life.
• Wild food is resilient, hardy, and nutritionally balanced food, growing in harmony with the cycles and structure of the nature's perfect design.
• These qualities, when ingested, provide us with a form of wild nutrition and spirit that works on an energetic level to help us adapt to environmental changes and conditions.
• Foraging for wild foods is like "shopping" in mother nature's garden. It is fun and it is FREE!

We love wildcrafting wild plants where we live or wherever we may travel. It is always good to have a wild edible plant guide on hand to acquaint yourself with the plants growing in your area.

Here we offer a few of our favorites that can be found in many locations in mid-latitude regions: wild edible greens, wild edible flowers and wild fruit and nuts.

Wild Edible Greens:

Learn more about some popular favorites, like miner's lettuce, chickweed, dandelion, purslane, mallow, sea kale, watercress, horsetail herb and more. We have been on many wild crafting adventures and love to share what we know and introduce you to some new plant friends. learn more...

Wild Edible Flowers:

Experiment with them in a salad or a top any raw food dish, raw chocolate cake or other dessert recipes.

Here we will show you some of our loved blossoms, that can be found painting the hills, forests, meadows and ocean sides.

You will enjoy their subtle tastes and bright colors that make your meals a form of art. learn more...

Check out our page on wild violets and making your own "violet honey"!

Wild Fruit and Nuts:

We have discovered many fruits and nuts growing in all kinds of climates and conditions. They are hardy survivors sometimes hundreds of years old! These old trees have deep root systems and wisdom from lifetimes of growth. Now that is a food I want to eat! learn more...

Come check out our Madrone berry and Desert Palm Fruit harvesting adventures!

Everyone should include some kind of wild food in their healthy diet plan.

Get your "wild nutrition" from edible wild plants that quite possibly are growing right outside your front door.

Pick up one of our favorite wild edible plant guides. A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and central North America (Peterson Field Guide)

Use them in raw food meals, salads, seed cheese recipes, raw soups, and as nutritive herbal teas.

It is great to know what is growing around you, wild foods are fun to learn about and a great adventure for the whole family!

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