Level: 2
Category: Nature
Year: 1970

Edible Wild Plants

  1. Photograph, collect pictures of, or sketch 15 edible wild plants. Identify each plant in the wild.
  2. Identify in the wild five trees and five shrubs that have edible parts.
  3. Identify, prepare, and eat five kinds of wild berries or fruits, three kinds of beverages, three salad plants, three potherbs (greens) and two tubers or roots.
  4. Demonstrate the preparation of wild foods in each of the following ways:
    1. Boiling
    2. Roasting
    3. Frying
    4. Baking
  5. Demonstrate how to prepare four parts of the common milkweed or daylily for food.
  6. Explain how to identify three “odd shaped” edible fungi and how to identify the deadly mushroom amanitas.
  7. What root plant can be dried and ground into meal?
  8. Know at least eight families that include the poisonous or doubtful plants.
  9. What is the cardinal edibility rule?