What wild edibles have you ate if any?!

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There are many to be had right in my backyard. Some examples of those I have foraged in the midwest include: may apples, mushrooms (morel, giant puffball, sulfur shelf), raspberries, blueberries, huckleberries, ground cherries, apples, black walnuts, acorns, burdock root, dandelions, purslane, stinging nettles, wood sorrel, mulberries, winter cress, violets, red clover, curly dock, grapes, gooseberries, elderberries, day lily buds, mint, garlic mustard, and many more.

The availability of wild edibles will depend on where you live, of course, and the season of the year. Wild plants have a growing season where they are the best just like domesticated produce. In fact, some plants could be exceptionally bitter, unpalatable, or even poisonous in the wrong season.

Which brings me to the next point. It is great that you want to incorporate these foods into your diets, as I also believe that they are nutritionally superior to produce from the supermarket. You should take several precautions to being with. Be absolutely certain of proper identification by diligent study. The best way would be to join a foraging or plant identification trip at a local nature preserve or join a local who is familiar with the native flora. Some plants and mushrooms are deadly poisonous, so you must be very cautious. And some plants (pokeweed, for example) may be edible during a very narrow window, outside of which they are unpalatable or even toxic. Such plants are best avoided. Even those that you are certain of could provoke a sensitivity or allergic reaction. Sample only small parts of new plants before you being eating more regularly.

Another concern you should have is that some edible plants are endangered or otherwise rare. Become familiar with the endangered species in your area by consulting the Department of Natural Resources or equivalent. Be aware of any local ordinances against foraging if you are in a park or preserve.

Good luck at any rate. Foraging is a fun activity that gets you outside with plenty of sunshine and fresh air.

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I make tea from roses. But I grow them like any other food. I collect nopales and fry them as well as use their fruit in drinks and jelly as well as ferment it into wine. I collect quite a few wild fruits to make wine, but usually the animals get to it before I can. Besides it takes allot to make wine.

As far as wild fruit go they tend to very in sweetness from year to year and even tree to tree. But that is true about any wild plant. I pick wild grapes and often harvest neighbors plants that they no longer tend to.

My wild gardening is mainly for my brewing and making jelly. I do not use them much in my normal diet. For that I have a garden where I specifically grow what I want to eat.

wild rose hips make a great tea that tastes very much like apples.
I have eaten wild plum, chokecherry, juneberries( some people call them saskatoons) and crab apples.
When I was a kid we picked all those each season for jams, jelly and sauce. If you think blueberry pie is good, you should try juneberry pie. It is soooooo good.
My mother also harvested wild mushrooms after a rain.
I have also sampled wild raspberrys.
the biggest problem with sampling a wide variety is that not everything grows everywhere.
I would find it difficult to eat pine bark and cactus in North Dakota unless I was in town because pine trees don't really grow out in the prairie and the cactus there are so low to the ground that you really got to watch for them.

Wild, (are there any other kind) Dandelions. The stems can be crushed and the sap fermented into wine. The yellow flowers can be dipped in batter like mushrooms or zuccini and fried. And the leaves are like either fresh salad or steamed like spinach. Or chopped into soups. The roots of very old plants can produce very good tubers, like radishes in taste.

Be sure and blow the white heads and make more to eat and enjoy.

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In my backyard is a tangle of wild blackberries, blueberries and raspberries. They taste so wonderful when eaten from the wild, and make awesome jellies, vegan pies, and preserves. I gather as many as possible and freeze them, so I can have affordable berries in the off-season.

Generally just berries like wild blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and mulberries. I love mulberries. ::sigh:: There was a mulberry at a park where they held a Renaissance Festival and I used to stop and eat them all the time.

Dandelions are about the only wild edible that I've eaten. From the local forest to my salad bowl in 10 minutes - can't get fresher then that! :)

Buckrams, dandelion, daisies, mushrooms...
Where I live it's quite common that people go to the woods and pick the edible plants when they're in season.

well i think cactus is prickly haha
anyway try mulberries or vitamineralgreen
contains most of the stuff u listed so ya
ive only had wild mushrooms, raspberries, lingonberries n those russian tiny red berries
ok or try these
chumapdak, rollinia, atomoya, ice cream bean, white sapote, rosehip, white chateau mullberries, beach cherries, soursop, merang, inga bean, durian n pine nuts

Hello

Dandelions
Grass
Nettles (dried into tea)

"have you ate?'' lol. I am eating a kiwi fruit right now. that's it. Learn English.