The goldenrod plant, also commonly known as solidago, blooms in the late summer and early fall in most regions. It has notably beautiful deep yellow-gold colored flowers and is also edible and medicinal. Learn all you need to know about identifying and foraging for goldenrod and using its flowers and leaves! Wildcrafting Weeds If you…
Summer Foraging
Kick off your summer foraging expeditions with our foraging guides. You'll discover the joys of finding delicious berries and healthy herbs in the wild like Plantain, Mugwort, Lemon Balm, Mullein, even Cattails!
Foraging Queen Anne’s Lace: Identification, Look-alikes, and Uses
Queen Anne’s lace is a pretty flower you’ve likely seen growing in fields and along roadsides your whole life. Also known as wild carrot, this delicate-looking beauty is edible and medicinal. Queen Anne’s lace flower has rich folklore, and distinct identifying factors to go with it. Easy to find, important to identify properly, and with…
Foraging Purslane: Identification, Look-alikes, and Uses
Common purslane is a highly nutritious edible and medicinal plant that readily grows in most areas. While known as a weed that may annoy some gardeners, the purslane plant is one you’ll grow to love. Even purslane flowers are edible, along with their leaves and seeds. Make friends with common purslane, and before you know…
Foraging for Self-Heal (Heal-All or Woundwort)
Self-heal is a common herb, a highly nutritious edible plant, and a medicinal powerhouse. Also known as heal-all or woundwort, these plants have historically been used for centuries for a variety of healing and health-beneficial purposes. Self-heal is easy to identify and forage, and has many uses for modern herbalists! Wildcrafting Weeds If you want…
12 Edible and Medicinal Weeds to Forage in Your Backyard
Edible weeds are all around us, often unassuming, always resilient, humble, and beneficial. These 12 edible and medicinal backyard weeds are easy to forage for, as most are wild plants you have likely seen your whole life without realizing how amazing they are. Learn and benefit from these wild-growing, strong, nutritious, edible, and medicinal weeds!…
Foraging Yarrow: Identification, Look-alikes, and Uses
Yarrow is an amazing edible and medicinal plant that is very common. Here is everything you need to know about foraging yarrow, a powerful plant you might have growing in your own backyard! Wildcrafting Weeds If you want to learn more about the edible and medicinal weeds that surround us and how to use them,…
Foraging for Elderberries & Elderflowers: Identification, Look-alikes, & Uses
Well, the season is now upon us… what season, do you ask? Elderberry season! This extremely important wild edible and medicinal plant starts getting ripe berries any time from July to September, depending on your specific location and elevation. Here in southern Oregon elderberries are perfect from mid August to early September. Before the berries,…
Foraging Plantain: Identification and Uses
Even if you don’t know this plant by name, you’ve almost definitely seen plantain growing in the wild before! Typically dismissed as a weed, plantain has a long history of use as a healing plant, often called “nature’s band-aid.” From varieties of plantain to its edible and medicinal uses, here’s everything you need to know…
Foraging St. John’s Wort + How to Make St. John’s Wort Oil & Salve
When the sunny yellow flowers of St. John’s wort start to appear then I know that summer is here! It is such an unassuming little plant that often grows along roadsides, but it is a powerful herbal ally. It is a great plant to know how to forage for, as it grows nearly everywhere and…
Sonoran Desert Foraging: What to Forage in Summer
While it may not seem like there is much to forage in the desert, there are quite a few edible and medicinal plants that have been used throughout history! Learn about Sonoran Desert foraging and what is available in the summer in this sparse but beautiful desert region. Wildcrafting Weeds If you want to learn…
