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
Boreal Canada
Long winter, short productive summer, focus on berries and evergreens.
Key items
- Blueberry
- Cloudberry
- Lingonberry
- Labrador tea (in moderation)
- Spruce and fir tips
- Reindeer lichen (boil/soak)
Regional caution: Baneberry looks like currants and will stop the heart — no red berry from a single-stem raceme.