Dandelion
Whole plant edible. Bitter greens in salad, roots roasted like coffee. The easiest starter weed.
You've been mowing dinner. Eight common weeds you can eat today — and the one rule that keeps it safe.
Whole plant edible. Bitter greens in salad, roots roasted like coffee. The easiest starter weed.
Not the banana. Young leaves in salad; a crushed leaf soothes bug bites.
Mild salad green. ID tell: a single line of hairs on the stem. ⚠ Avoid milky-sap lookalikes (spurge).
Leaves and flowers are edible raw or as tea. Everywhere, and hard to mistake.
Succulent, lemony, omega-3 rich. The sidewalk-crack weed worth eating.
Wild spinach — cook it. One of the most nutritious weeds going.
Heart-shaped leaves and flowers, both edible; pretty in salads.
Shamrock-shaped, tart and lemony. A bright trail nibble.
A proper field guide with color photos and lookalike warnings turns "I think" into "I know." Our pick is The Forager's Guide — 400 plants, every lookalike documented.
Ten common wild foods, where to find each one, and the #1 lookalike to avoid — on one printable sheet. We'll email it to you.