Edible Wild Plants
Overview
God has set a table for you outdoors! Learn what’s out there that you can eat, and what you should stay away from. Then positively identify an edible wild plant, find it, harvest it, prepare it, and finally - eat it!
Investiture Achievement Connection: This Honor is related to the Investiture Achievement requirements for FRONTIER VOYAGER Nature Study which require (as one of two options) “Identify, prepare and eat 10 varieties of edible wild plants” which is a good start on Requirement 3 of this Honor. This Honor is a popular choice for the Level 2 or 3 Nature Honor required of FRONTIER VOYAGER.
Requirements
1. Photograph, collect pictures of or sketch fifteen edible wild plants. Identify each plant in the wild.
2. Identify in the wild five trees and five shrubs which are edible.
3. Identify, prepare, and eat three 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:
- a. Boiling
- b. Frying
- c. Roasting
- d. Baking
5. Demonstrate how to prepare four parts of the common milkweed or day lily 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 8 families embracing the poisonous or doubtful plants.
9. What is the cardinal edibility rule?
1. Photograph, collect pictures of or sketch fifteen edible wild plants. Identify each plant in the wild.
2. Identify in the wild five trees and five shrubs that are edible.
3. Identify, prepare, and eat three 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:
- a. Boiling
- b. Frying
- c. Roasting
- d. Baking
5. Demonstrate how to prepare four parts of the common milkweed or day lily for food.
6. What root plant can be dried and ground into meal?
7. Complete the following:
- a. Know at least 8 families embracing the poisonous or doubtful plants.
- b. Determine whether any of the plants you plan to eat have poisonous look-alikes and be able to distinguish them.
- c. List three plants that are safe to eat in small quantities. What makes eating large portions of these plants risky?
- d. Name at least one plant that contains both edible and poisonous parts. Which parts are edible? Which parts are poisonous, and why?
8. The cardinal edibility rule is to never eat any wild plant unless you have positively identified it and know that it is edible. Discuss the importance of this rule.
1. Photograph, collect or draw 15 wild edible plants and make an album of them. For each plant, indicate its common name, its edible part, its use and where it can be found.
2. Identify, prepare and eat 5 types of wild fruit or berry, 3 types of beverage, 3 salad plants, 3 potted herbs and 2 tuberous roots.
3. Make a list of edible wild foods that you can then prepare in each of the following ways:
- boiling
- fry
- grilling
- bake
4. Identify 5 edible and 5 dangerous mushrooms.
5. Know at least 5 families belonging to the category of poisonous or doubtful plants.
6. List at least 5 general rules of edibility.
Answer key & resources
- Answer Key (General Conference)
- Answer Key (North American Division)
- Acorn
- Amaranth
- Autumn Olive
- Beech Nuts
- Blackberry
- Bladder Campion
- Blueberry
- Cattail
- Chicory
- Clover
- Cranberry
- Dandelion
- Day Lily
- Evening Primrose
- Goldenrod
- Gooseberry
- Greenbriar
- Lepidium virginicum
- Milkweed
- Morel mushrooms
- Pickerelweed
- Pine Needles
- Pine Nuts
- Plantain
- Puffball Mushrooms
- Rose
- Sassafras
- Sheep Sorrel
- Spicebush
- Strawberry
- Sulphur shelf
- Sumac
- Wild Carrot
- Wild Garlic
- Wild Onion
- Wintergreen
- Wood Sorrel
Master awards
This honor counts toward:
Investiture Achievement
This honor is required, suggested or listed as an option in:
See also
- Wilderness Leadership - AdvancedHonor
- VoyagerReference
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