Basic Survival Skills Series: Part 4 - Can You Identify The Edibles?

We can do all the prepping we want, but even the best of the best with the biggest pocketbooks and stockpiles of foods will eventually run out unless there's an additional source of foods coming in. Gardening is a great way to make your food storage stretch, but knowing what edibles are growing in the wild around you is another important food source. I've gathered a few links to sites that will help you identify things you can find in your back yard, along a roadside, or in the wild. Please take a minute to look through them. Some of these links will have the same plants on them from the other links, but if you go through them all you'll be able to pluck the info for each individual one out and print the picture to put in your prepper notebook for future reference.


Wild Food Guide: How To Identify The Best Wild Edible Foods (by Outdoor Life Survival)


Surviving In The Wild: 19 Common Edible Plants (by The Art Of Manliness)


Foraging: 52 Wild Plants You Can Eat (by RealFarmacy)


Identifying Wild Mushrooms (by Jeannine Tidwell, on the Twin Eagles Wilderness School Site)
    
  -  This link shows 4 distinctive mushrooms, known as the Foolproof Four, that are edible. Some edible mushrooms have poisonous lookalikes, but these 4 are pretty self set in their appearance.


Discover Wild Edible Plants (Again by Jeannine Tidwell, on the Twin Eagles Wilderness School Site)

 - This link has a good list of edibles, you may want to look further into pictures for each one.


15 Edible Plants To Forage In Your Own Back Yard (by And Here We Are)


When SHTF, Know What Plants You Can Eat...and Shouldn't (by RECOIL)





(Please note that I do not take any responsibility for harm, incidents, or accidents that are caused from eating any plants or mushrooms in the wild. Make sure you are absolutely positive that you have correctly identified these plants/mushrooms before eating them, and make sure you have prepared them correctly. I also suggest taking a course on edible that can be found in the wild. This will give you a hands on experience which will leave less or no room for mistakes.)