Foraging and Cooking with Invasive Species

By Marie Viljoen
Published on October 2, 2018
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Black locust occurs all across North America, and you can harvest the flowers to use in meals.
Black locust occurs all across North America, and you can harvest the flowers to use in meals.

A cornucopia of edible wild plants is growing under our noses. Despite the appealing qualities of these feral foods, most of them have been forgotten, overlooked, or dismissed as useless. Some are simply invisible.

The plants featured here are wild foods I use at home daily when they’re in season. By providing a range of recipes for these plants, I’m making what I hope is an irrefutable argument for bringing these ingredients from the foraging fringes to everyday cooking.

You can purchase this book from the Grit store: Forage, Harvest, Feast

Learn about and discover more edible invasives to use in your seasonal cuisine:

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