2025 Foraging Roundup — 33 Plants on Four Acres
Last year I rarely left the four acres that we live on. I’m my elderly mother-in-law’s caretaker and she can’t be left alone for very long. The majority of my foraging was done on these four acres, and upon occasion three miles up the road at my own mother’s house. The last time I had done one of these posts I was at 30 wild foods that I had eaten off of our land last year (this does not include a couple of plants from my mother).
Beaked cornsalad, henbit, redbud, dandelion, pepperweed, purple deadnettle, lyreleaf sage, sheep sorrel, yellow wood sorrel, honeysuckle, blackberry, wild garlic, shiso, American beautyberry, asiatic day flower, American persimmon, wild lettuce, butternut, chickweed, prickly pear, dewberry, cutleaf evening primrose, amaranth, mimosa, elderflower, muscadine leaves, native black cherries, burnweed, sowthistle and winged sumac.
In the autumn and early winter I added two more wild plants (and used muscadine grapes to make wild fermented wine in addition to the leaves I used earlier in the year):
Muscadines, trifoliate orange, and goldenrod.
Though I didn’t eat it, I also foraged resin from the loblolly pine which I used to make pine salve.
