r/foraging Jul 28 '20

Please remember to forage responsibly!

1.5k Upvotes

Every year we have posts from old and new foragers who like to share pictures of their bounty! I get just as inspired as all of you to see these pictures. As we go out and find wild foods to eat, please be sure to treat these natural resources gently. But on the other side, please be gentle to other users in this community. Please do not pre-judge their harvests and assume they were irresponsible.

Side note: My moderation policy is mostly hands off and that works in community like this where most everyone is respectful, but what I do not tolerate is assholes and trolls. If you are unable to engage respectfully or the other user is not respectful, please hit the report button rather then engaging with them.

Here is a great article from the Sierra Club on Sustainable Foraging Techniques.

My take-a-ways are this:

  1. Make sure not to damage the plant or to take so much that it or the ecosystem can't recover.
  2. Consider that other foragers might come after you so if you take almost all of the edible and only leave a little, they might take the rest.
  3. Be aware if it is a edible that wild life depends on and only take as much as you can use responsibly.
  4. Eat the invasives!

Happy foraging everyone!


r/foraging 6h ago

Creeping (Orange) Raspberries Haul

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492 Upvotes

While vacationing with my family in Vancouver (WA) we stumbled across a huge patch of creeping raspberries that was actually having a huge crop. Had seen occasional berries before but not these. Gathered for about 20 min and had a nice snack the next day.


r/foraging 3h ago

Is this hemlock or carrots? Beaverhead Deerlodge National Forest, near stream (Montana)

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35 Upvotes

r/foraging 2h ago

Plants Sumac berries for lemonade

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18 Upvotes

I wanted to post these here since this is my first time making sumac lemonade. Are these clusters good enough to make the lemonade, I shook them out for bugs. I red the darker red they are the better they taste. Is that still accurate?


r/foraging 23h ago

Plants Prickly pears!

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381 Upvotes

I found a nice little cactus patch close by and made some agua fresca. 10/10, very refreshing with a little lime juice. When they’re in season again I might go looking for some nopales too!


r/foraging 16h ago

Plants Wild Hazelnuts!

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92 Upvotes

Wild hazelnuts!

I foraged these from a park but am curious what is the dark brownish jelly I found in one? ( it kinda looks like a jelly coconut thingy). I think the white ones are unripe

I have a huge bag of them lol


r/foraging 5h ago

Plants a ton of tiger nut sedge has volunteered in my garden this year. what to do with it?

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10 Upvotes

SW Michigan

ive read the tubers of this stuff are edible, also called earth almonds or tiger nuts. apparently its used to make horchata? wondering if anyone has tried it before and any recipes they recommend!

its growing on a small slope in my backyard that im trying to restore into a native habitat. ill let this stay since its native to the US but i dont want it to take over the entire slope so im hoping to make some use out of what i end up pulling out!


r/foraging 19h ago

Update on my yard foraging

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141 Upvotes

I posted a few days ago about how my yard is full of broadleaf plantain and that I was thinking about harvesting the natural psyllium husks.

I spent about an hour today cutting and collecting some. I barely made a dent because they really are everywhere in my yard. I'll spread them out on the shelves of my dehydrator and slowly dry them before I try to figure out the best way to separate the husks from the stem.

This seems like a lot but in reality will probably only yield a quarter cup of husks if that.


r/foraging 1h ago

ID Request (country/state in post) Raspberry variant? in MA, USA

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thx!!! ik u guys do this all day -_-


r/foraging 4h ago

ID Request (country/state in post) Are these plums?

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6 Upvotes

Or something else edible? Northamptonshire - England. Multiple trees in my local park. I’m guessing the same fruit at different stages of ripeness, but I’m new to this.


r/foraging 32m ago

ID Request (country/state in post) What species of *Rubus*? Found in MN near the Twin Cities.

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I am a surveyor and was out...surveying, and found these. I can't pin down what species these are. Any help would be appreciated. I only snapped the one picture. Thanks!


r/foraging 3h ago

ID Request (country/state in post) Is this a mulberry tree?

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4 Upvotes

It looks like mulberry to me but i thought mulberry was always like viney/bush type! Am i wrong


r/foraging 5h ago

Mushrooms Is this young Chicken of the Woods? Found growing off the base of a tree, Massachusetts, USA

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6 Upvotes

r/foraging 15h ago

Salal (Whidbey Island, WA.)

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29 Upvotes

Growing up in Seattle I’ve seen salal my entire life, but only learned it was edible in recent years, and finally tried it this weekend. I was staying in Oak Harbor, Whidbey Island, and salal was covering the area.

I’d rinse and soak a handful at a time and found they were very blueberry-like. I dig em!


r/foraging 20h ago

Plants Wineberries Are Ready !

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69 Upvotes

They grow wild here in southern New England. I call them "gummi raspberries"


r/foraging 2h ago

ID Request (country/state in post) USA-IL is this riverbank grape or something that gonna poison me.

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2 Upvotes

r/foraging 4h ago

ID Request (country/state in post) Wild cherry?

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3 Upvotes

Found in Eastern Michigan


r/foraging 3h ago

Just returned from a mushroom foraging trip in Yunnan China. Part 1

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2 Upvotes

Sharing my post from mycology on my mushrooms foraging trip in Yunnan China.


r/foraging 18h ago

ID Request (country/state in post) Purslane or spurge?

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26 Upvotes

Found in Wisconsin, not sure which especially because of how green the stems are. No milky sap or anything, which makes me believe it is purslane but I have zero experience with either and little foraging experience in general, so I was hoping to get more information here.


r/foraging 1h ago

Perilla found in south Charlotte if you're interested. If was in the Fourmile Creek Greenway near the where the creek intersects Elm Lane. Or just walk 5 minutes heading south-west from Rea Road Trader Joe's.

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r/foraging 1d ago

Mushrooms Basketful of yellow goodness.

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120 Upvotes

It's chantarelle season!


r/foraging 11h ago

Can I have confirmation that this is definitely yarrow?

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2 Upvotes

Thanks!


r/foraging 19h ago

(bay area CA) assuming this is elderberry?

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16 Upvotes

We have all these bushes that i think are elderberry that grow outta hand all over the place that no one planted. but wanted to make sure before i make myself sick making elderberry syrup hahaha


r/foraging 16h ago

Plants the hospital trimmed their mulberry shrubs :((

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7 Upvotes

i go to the local hospital a lot due to my disabilities and while there likes to check out the local flora. there's a few mulberry shrubs that i like to see if they're fruiting or not, and i came to find out that they trimmed their mulberry shrubs. i'm a bit sad about it.

got a handful of mulberries though, some maybe sour but i like it even then.


r/foraging 19h ago

Choke cherry

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9 Upvotes

Hello, I just moved onto this property and have apple trees and a few trees that look like this. I tasted one and it reminds me of the choke cherries I ate while I was a child, just wanted too get a few other opinions. I live in southern Montana and these pictures were taken about a week ago.