Foraging
Edible Plants
Identify calorie- and nutrient-worthy wild plants, avoid the local look-alikes that will hurt you, and harvest without stripping a patch.
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General practice
- Positive identification with three or more features before eating anything.
- Universal Edibility Test only when nothing safer is available.
- Never harvest from roadsides, agricultural runoff, or land recently sprayed.
- Rotate patches and take no more than a third of what is present.
Regional focus
Arctic Circle
Tundra plants are small, slow-growing, and easily damaged.
Key items
- Crowberry
- Arctic blueberry
- Cloudberry
- Mountain sorrel
- Dwarf fireweed
- Sea beach greens on the coast
Regional caution: Harvest lightly — tundra recovers over decades, not seasons.