Why gardeners should learn Foraging

[FeralForaging]

The plant in the video was Common Blue Violet - Viola sororia

[bl]

Need to get on this level. I’m at the eat dandelion level currently

[SheenaSpeaks]

My neighbors hate me because I let chunks of my yard just grow so I can ID the plants.
For instance, those monster greens in my yard are not weeds. They are curly dock. <3 my side yard is growing geranium and dandelions. the 5-0 can suck it lol

[michellerizzoandersen]

Lol…the mailman though I was pulling weeds. I told him I was harvesting. He laughed until I mentioned some things and about the benefits of dandelion leaves and roots and how my Italian grandmother and I would walk in the woods to forage for wild greens. He said he was gonna leave his to grow and make some dandelion greens for him and his wife. These violets grow all over my lettuce and arugula beds. I just roasted em with the chiles, onions, and tomatillos and made salsa with em. Game changer. Definitely making that again.

[DannyLovesBooks]

Honestly knowing foraging had helped so much in my gardening. All of my classmates ask me to identify weeds because our most common "weeds" are edible plants 😂

[evientually]

I tried violet greens (seasoned like turnip or collard greens, cooked like similarly easy-wilting spinach) not long ago and LOVE them. I make violet syrup every spring (for violet soda) and have some oil and a tincture, and I've made candied/crystallized violet flowers but the greens and the soda are my favorite uses for violet so far.

[cognitivedissonance]

The epic thing about this is that as you journey from gardener to gardener+forager, you also become a better cook.

Everybody will always ask "what's that flowery/peppery/lemony/slight bitter/woodsy note in the dish, it's great!" and you get to play with and make weird fusions of forgotten flavors that people of the past used on the daily.

[stonedapefarmer]

I haven't even had to "go foraging" because all of my greens have been things I've weeded from the garden.

[kathleenrmorris]

I love how, the more "weeds" I make friends with, the easier gardening becomes. it's a lot harder to kill something once you learn it's name

[Sofia-Stella-n-Luna]

You’re the one who turned me into a foraging fanatic! Now I know my rich, neighbors must wonder wtf I’m doing when I’m standing, really just inching along the perimeter of my yard, staring at all the wild vegetation that grows on the other side of my fencing. I live along a tidal marsh in New England so there’s just a crazy bunch of stuff that grows here! Thank you for peeking my new interest! ❤

[HopeRock]

Foraging would be a great school subject. It's practical and fun, can be integrated into biology or PE.

[sauronwasright]

Yeah this is the basis of my native plant garden. I want to know every possible edible plant that will just grow anyways and then let it explode

[pocketsand]

Gardeners learning more about recognizijg plants and their habitats really helps plan the garden better.

[calvinsweet]

I actually have a wild greens garden. lambsquartr, dock, dandelions, etc... so good!

[doriweishaar]

So I'm not the only one scouring my lawn for food lol.
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I live in the country and I'm always wandering my properly collecting wild lettuce, plantain, dandelion & dead nettle etc. Thanks for the great content !

[tamaraspillis]

"Sweet violets, sweeter than all the roses..."

[MaggMoppArts]

I once got told that I was the person someone would want with me in a crisis because I could "Turn lawn into lunch" 😆

[jokercardzz]

"here i made you some soup"
"Its green, whats in it?"
"Grass"

[bobbunns]

As a gardener, you have a single plot, as a forager, the whole worlds your garden

[bethanysmith]

Im mainly pulling grass from the garden. Im currently keeping an eye on the plantains and goung to be sprinkling some of their seeds into the corners of the beds so theres better plants in the future since theres so many uses for them. You can eat them or use them to make a salve.