grasp the nettle– (UK) to deal bravely with a problem.
in order of availability (most common first)
see also alphabetical list of top 125 local edibles
and our Products page
Mushrooms
lobster
hen of the woods (maitake)
chicken of the woods
chanterelle
honey mushroom
leatherback milk cap
morel
boletes (some)
oyster
reishi
turkey tail
blusher
puffball
meadow
Russula (some)
ceasar’s
parasol
beefsteak
cauliflower
brick top
hedgehog
chaga
Greens
chickweed
dandelion
lambsquarter
nettle
violet
daisy
ramp (wild leek)
onion grass
sochane (coneflower)
comfrey
wintercress (creasy greens)
waterleaf
Shoots
Flowers
day lily
violet
elder
black locust
Fruit
elderberry
blueberry
persimmon
sumac
autumn olive
mulberry
spicebush
kousa dogwood
black cherry
paw paw
prickly pear
honey locust
apple
pear
cherry
beauty berry
Nuts
acorn
black walnut
hickory
chestnut
Seeds
lambsquarter
plantain
evening primrose
Roots
fairy potato (cinnamon vine, aerial tuber)
burdock
greenbriar (sarsparilla)
sassafras
The teeming Earth, yet guiltless of the plough,
And unprovok’d, did fruitful stores allow:
Content with food, which Nature freely bred,
On wildings and on strawberries they fed;
Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest,
And falling acorns furnish’d out a feast.
Ovid, Metamorphoses
