wild greens
Uncultivated edible plants
Wild greens are edible leafy plants gathered from uncultivated land rather than grown in gardens or farms.
The category includes dandelion, lamb's quarters, purslane, and dozens of other species foraged from fields, forests, and roadsides.
She learned to identify wild greens from her grandmother.
Wild greens often have stronger, more bitter flavors than cultivated varieties.
- foragingSeeking wild food sources
- dandelionYellow flower, white puffball
- nettlesPrickly plants causing rash
- purslaneSucculent edible weed
- bitterSharp, unpleasant taste
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- edible plantsvegetable, lettuce, carrot, spinach, cabbage
- food procurementforaging, harvesting, fishing, gathering, berry picking
- foraged foodsdandelion, blackberries, blueberries, nuts, mushrooms
- Southern Foodfried chicken, collards, biscuits, grits, cornbread
- Wild Foodsramps, fiddleheads, morels, chanterelles, elderberries
- famine foodspotato peels, tree bark, nettles, acorns, sawdust