Another one I haven't tried yet but will this Spring is Poke Sallet.  The plant is generally called Poke Weed.  We called them Inkberry Bushes as kids.  They grow all over the place around here.  I have a nice patch of them growing in my vegetable garden and at various locations throughout my yard. 
   As kids we were told that they are poisonous so other than to stain things with the berries we left them alone.  If you don't harvest and prepare them properly they are toxic so pay attention if you're going to try them. 
    You have to harvest them while they're young shoots.  Once they get over 18" tall and the stems start to turn red it's too late.  To prepare them you have to boil them for ten minutes, drain and rinse them, then repeat the process.  The beautiful, delicious looking berries are not edible. 
    They are very abundant around here and when harvested and processed properly they are good for you.  I've been told they taste something like Asparagus.  In another two months they should be ready to pick.  I'll let you know how it goes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytolacca_americana

slingbadger wrote on Feb 27^th, 2024 at 6:13am:

   
Around here we get wild garlic.  Locally we call it Onion Grass.  We might be talking about the same thing.  The entire plant is edible.  It grows in great abundance here.
It's a very hardy plant. During a mild winter like we just had in New Jersey it will grow right through the season.  It is considered a weed and an enemy to pretty, proper lawns.  No one harvests it which is insane. 

    The finished product.  It tastes exactly like Asparagus but it's more tender.  It is absolutely delicious.   Now as long as I don't get sick I've found a great, free food source. 
    I was very cautious in preparing it for the first time.  I overcooked it just a bit but it's still fine.

    There is something that is hard to understand.  Someone had to be the first to eat Poke Sallet.  The plant is poisonous.  The berries are poisonous.  So what possessed someone to take just the shoots of Pokeweed and boil and rinse them twice then eat it?  Someone must have been desperately hungry to try such and experiment.

Good point, IG.  Out of desperation someone probably tried the process on many plants.  Poke Sallet happened to be one of the ones that didn't make them sick. 
   I mentioned on another thread that the leaves of the Mulberry Tree are edible.  I've read that you should make tea out of the older leaves and eat the new ones.  I tried some young Mulberry Leaves this morning for the first time.  They were absolutely delicious... sweet like White Clover but more mild.
    Last year the Mulberry Tree in my yard bore fruit for the first time.  I was a little disappointed that there wasn't more.  Plus the berries could have been a little bit sweeter.  I chalked it up to it being the first year the tree ever bore fruit.  Hopefully this year it will do better.  There are a lot more berries on it this year.  It will be a few weeks before they're ripe so I won't know if they're sweeter until then.

2020 was a really wet year for my family's property up in Northern Washington. I went with my mom for about 4 hours and picked a couple of quarts/liters of these. Enough to make a pie for my wife for her birthday. It was a darn good pie too. No extra sugar needed to be added as they were very sweet.

IronGoober wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2024 at 1:18am:


   I think you picked regular wild strawberries.  The one pictured is a Ground Strawberry.  It's tiny, like half the size of a pea, and it has almost no sugar in it.  Without some help they wouldn't make a very good pie.  But once you get used to the lack of sugar they're not bad.

Rat Man wrote on Jun 12^th, 2024 at 11:07am:

True statement.  I think most young people now days, if you told them to do anything with their hands other than tap on a smartphone, they would look at you as though you were speaking another language.