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Believe it or not, your yard could contain edible wild plants!

It’s not just tomatoes, peppers, or other domestic plants that can be consumed, but wild plants as well.

So, if you’re planting or maintaining a garden, consider growing a few edible wild plants as well.

Here’s what you should know about edible wild plants, how to prepare them, and what benefits they hold.

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Video Transcript:
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Do you have a garden perhaps consider augmenting it with some edible wild plants. In today's video, we have top things you should know. Number one, what are the most common kinds of edible wild plants in the United States?

First on the list is perhaps surprisingly the dandelion. There's also the sunflower, wild asparagus, nettle garlic mustard, Wild Onion, mulberries, wild raspberry, blackberry purslane, and curl dock oh, and of course there are also always wild mushrooms. Just be careful which ones you pick.

Number two what are the benefits of eating wild plants? Well if you're into local food. Edible wild plants are perhaps the most food you can get.

They're also of course Very cost-effective and likely have fewer pesticides on them depending on where they're grown and what kind of procedure you usually buy. But of course, perhaps the main benefit of foraging for wild plants is that it's a fun activity that gets you outdoors and engaged in nature and number three of course if you start foraging for edible wild plants you have to be very careful. There are many poisonous plants out there so you should understand how to identify both the edible plants and the poisonous ones.

Here are a few tips on how to tell if a plant is poisonous plants often have milky white sap. They may come with thorns, vines, or fine hairs although there are a few edible plants with spines. As we'll see in a minute they may have pods with bulbs beans or seeds although again there are some nuts and seeds that are perfectly healthy to eat.

Another big tell, however, is an almond scent. This almost always indicates a plant is poisonous. Three-leaved foliage growth often indicates poison, think poison ivy pink, purple, or black Spurs on the grain head fully reminiscent of Dill parsley or carrot fronds and an intensely bitter or soapy flavor.

So as you can see from this list, some of these items are clear indications. Others may mean a plant is poisonous or it may mean it's perfectly edible. So as I mentioned earlier before you do any foraging in your area and know which ones are edible and which ones are dangerous, but now that we've covered the basics of edible wild plants.

Let's take a look at a quick case study. Sean Jardnisik has always loved prickly pear fruit but when he heard that the cactus could also be used as animal fencing, he was hooked on an experiment. The farmer and arborist brought a case of the spiny plant to Wild hope Farm in South Carolina to install it as a deer-proof garden fence.

The little Cactus quickly proved to be a huge success and Sean was soon evangelizing the use of prickly pear around the Tidewater area. As Sean will eagerly tell you prickly pear not only reduces the maintenance involved with fencing but it generates income as well. You see quickly, pear is not only a great natural barrier but a highly nutritious food.

In fact, wild hope Farm sold about 15000 worth of prickly pear fruit to local Brewers and farmers' markets in 2021.

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