Become the Friend Who Can ID Any Tree and Wow Your Hiking Partners Forever
Learn to use bark, leaves, and other features to tell common types of trees apart on your next hike.
Plants
Learn to identify edible versus poisonous plants, wildflowers and trees along the trail with help from Backpacker’s backcountry plant identification guides.
4 Edible Berries Every Hiker Should Know
There’s nothing sweeter than foraging for your trail snacks. Here's how to recognize four common wild fruits.
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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.
4 Edible Plants for Beginner Foragers
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.
Why Hikers Should Know Their Plants
Find home anywhere, one leaf at a time.
11 Deadly Plants You Should Never Eat
Forage away, but whatever you do, don't ingest any of these killer plants.
How to Cook With Wild Berries
Forage wild berries and then use this guide to prepare killer backcountry meals.