Foraging for Edible & Medicinal Plants

Identify narrow leaf plantain by parallel veins. Use this edible herb for coughs, wounds, dermatitis, and insect bites with internal and external preparations such as tea or poultice.

Learn to identify chickweed, an edible and medicinal weed with white flowers, and explore its uses in salads, stews, pesto, and internal and skin applications.

Identify white clover by its three leaflets, then use its greens and flowers in salads, teas, and infusions for fever, cough, cold, eye infections, and rheumatic aches.

Recognize the daisy as an edible and medicinal plant with white petals and a yellow center; use leaves in salads and prepare tea, salve, or oil for coughs and inflammation.

Harvest yarrow, a woolly perennial with feather-like leaves on the west coast, recognized as edible and medicinal; use the whole plant in foods and remedies, beware lookalikes like wild carrot.

Explore purple dead nettle, a fast-growing edible and medicinal plant with square stems and hairy leaves. All parts are edible, especially the leaves, for salads, teas, poultices, and anti-inflammatory uses.

Learn to identify maple blossoms and distinguish them from look-alikes like Japanese maple, explore edible uses in salads and soups, and note their vitamin C, collagen production, and calcium content.

Discover the dandelion, edible flowers to roots, used in salads, soups, and stir-fries, with roasted roots as faux coffee and bitters for digestion, noting latex allergy from the milky sap.

Join a walk through an urban landscape to explore edible and medicinal plants, learning to avoid poisoned sites near invasive species while spotting dandelion, chickweed, cat's ear, and blackberry.

thank you for joining this free course and applying the basics of foraging for edible and medicinal plants, inspiring beginners to go out and start foraging confidently—happy foraging.

Learn to make infused oils and salves from foraged plants like dandelion. Blend beeswax with the oil to create a versatile first-aid salve.