The Basics of Foraging |
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The first thing to do before eating a wild plant is to identify it correctly. Be completely sure you know what the plant is, and that you have the right one. Edible plants that resemble poisonous ones are not covered in this book. You must also avoid eating poisonous plants through carelessness. Make sure you and the children don’t include pieces of nearby plants along with edibles—check their bags. Make sure children never eat any wild plants unless they’ve been identified by a knowledgeable adult. Make sure you avoid carelessness that could lead to eating something poisonous. Make sure you and the children don’t pick pieces of nearby plants along with edibles—check their bags. And make sure children never eat any wild plants that haven’t been identified by a knowledgeable adult. |
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‘Of what are you afraid, my child?’’ —Peter Newell, Wild Flower |
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This book covers seventy-six of the very best-tasting, common, and easy-to-identify wild edible plants of the contiguous United States and southern Canada. Using it will make their certain identification easy. Teach children to learn a small number of plants extremely well. Dandelions, mulberries, cattails, wood sorrel, sheep sorrel, common plantain, long-leaf plantain, red clover, and white clover are good ones to start with. Study them carefully, and watch how they change with the seasons. You may ?branch out? to other plants later. If you can identify and point out poisonous wild plants, do so but don’t let young children collect them. If you collect them yourself, be sure to label the bags carefully, and don’t store poisonous plants in refrigerators that others have access to. |
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