The Beginner's Guide to Foraging
Reap the bounty of nature’s pantry by learning to identify and responsibly harvest wild edibles on the trail or in your neighborhood.
Learn to identify edible versus poisonous plants, wildflowers and trees along the trail with help from Backpacker’s backcountry plant identification guides.
Learn to use bark, leaves, and other features to tell common types of trees apart on your next hike.
Reap the bounty of nature’s pantry by learning to identify and responsibly harvest wild edibles on the trail or in your neighborhood.
Chow down on these edible plants, all found across the U.S. Briana Wiles, author of Mountain States Foraging and owner of Rooted Apothecary, and Kat Mackinnon, RH (AHG), Botany Program Director at the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism, give you the goods.
Find home anywhere, one leaf at a time.
Forage away, but whatever you do, don't ingest any of these killer plants.
Forage wild berries and then use this guide to prepare killer backcountry meals.