Eat Weeds: A field guide to foraging: how to identify, harvest, eat and use wild plants

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The flower of the dandelion when harvested immediately pre- or post-bloom has a sweet taste many compare to honey that can be used in the making of wines and teas. Our back gardens may seem like unlikely places to forage, but many of those pesky weeds are actually valuable foods, loaded with antioxidants, vitamins and protein. Although the yard is a great place to start foraging, there are many other edible plants and fungi in Minnesota that can be found nearby. Few people today have experience harvesting wild food with their own hands, and with the advent of supermarket culture, monocultural systems of food production, and escalating urbanization, foraging knowledge has largely been lost. He has travelled extensively, documenting and recording wild food plants’ traditional and local uses in indigenous cultures.Garlic mustard is commonly found growing in shady spots, such as on the edges of woods and hedgerows. Hearst UK is the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd, 30 Panton Street, Leicester Square, London, SW1Y 4AJ.

is a love letter to the plants that many gardeners spend hours trying to destroy, a guide to 24 of Britain’s best-known weeds and how to use them to create tasty savoury and sweet meals, snacks and drinks. For thousands of years, and as recently as three generations ago, it was common practice all over the world to collect wild food; knowledge of what, when, and where to forage was a necessary part of daily life. It is part of the very DNA he grew up with on the land and this book is an invitation to observe the world around us with a whole new set of goggles. Using garlic mustard plants provides an all-season wild food and helps prevent the spread of the herb," Gardening Knowhow say.When I started out foraging, I found it excruciating not being able to identify wild edible plants correctly. When I was a kid, instead of spraying to remove dandelions, I would collect and then sell the blooms to the local winery to be used for dandelion wine. It’s probably indicative of the illness of our culture that dandelions have such a bad rap, because they are truly one of the most useful, nutritious, delicious, and soil-building plants in the garden! You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.