Favorite Edible Plants Of The Backcountry ?

[Sytes]

Service berries, strawberries and raspberries Huckleberries are great for eating as is or making a rough marmalade.

Wild Onions are fantastic placed inside trout and wrapped in Aluminum foil. Soak the stalks(?) flip the foil wrapper in the fire-coals after a bit. The liquid and the water really infuses the onion flavor into the trout.

Stinging nettle is pretty darn good spinach like side for trout (boiled).


Favorites?

 

[rideold]

I'm a big fan of lemonade berries to suck on during those hot summer hikes.

 

[geewhiz]

I pick any kind of mushroom I see and eat it. Haven't had a bad one yet. Must have just gotten lucky.


Did I mention that I pick any kind of mushroom I see and eat it??

 

[jlong17]

Any type of berry. Any. The way @Big Fin is with grouse, I am with berries. I literally cannot walk past a patch of them. Doesn’t matter what I’m doing, how full I am, how tired I am, or how angry I am… I get so dang fat and happy off them

 

[2rocky]

Huckleberries are the best of all the wild plants. Although I've never looked for or found morels...

 

[MITCHMO]

Can’t walk past raspberries without going to town. Blackberries are a no go for me. Too many seeds. Wish I was better at identifying plants so I wasn’t worried about eating them. We always used to eat wintergreen berries as well.

 

[Gellar]

I like to forage. Ramps and morels in the springtime, oyster mushrooms and blackberries in the summer, chicken of the woods in august and September.
For greens I like to do nettles in the early spring, dandelions, plantain and catttails are good too. Woods Sorel to give fish a lemony flavor is fun. Sumac lemonade in the fall is a hit with the kids. In the winter I like to pick watercress for a nice fresh green salad.

 

[Sytes]

I've thrown collected wild berries Into the really enjoyable (and simple as hell) Mountain House granola meals.

@Gatekeeper 's comment about wild blueberries in pancakes @ camp prompted that thought.

At 21 I hiked from the east glacier train station, up to Cameron Lakes (Canada) and back down West glacier. Picked up the train and continued on my journey. 260 some miles, over a month hiking with "undesignated camp permits". Many occasions, I ran into campers leaving and unloading food weight. Only had to hike out four occasions to replenish and gain new permits.
One of my favorite meets was with a Sierra Club group. We had amazing complete wild salads, etc! I contributed trout.
While my thoughts of the Club itself are not too favorable, that memory is one of my most enjoyable parts to that trip.

Run on. Apologies. Great memories re-kindled.

 

[Sytes]

I'm a big fan of lemonade berries to suck on during those hot summer hikes.

Had to look that up. They in the Big Bear area? San Gabriel Range?

 

[Lean Elk]

Morels!

 

[Sawtooth]

Huckleberries, thimble berries, wild stawberries inland, and blackberries along the coast

 

[Gellar]

I’ve probably missed a few opportunities at black bears and moose because I was to busy scarfing down blueberries in Ak and not paying attention. In college when I worked in the BWCA I would pick blueberries and a girl at the outfitters would have pies and muffins made by the next day!

I would like to go to the desert and pick prickly pear cactus fruit sometime. We actually have them here but I’ve never seen them produce a viable fruit.

We have tons of wild plums and apples in the woods.

 

[D4570]

I like raspberries and chokecherries.

 

[rideold]

Had to look that up. They in the Big Bear area? San Gabriel Range?

I'm in the front range of Colorado and we have them around most places here. It may be that the name is used for more than one subspecies.

 

[MTelkHuntress]

Huckleberries are also my favorite but I've been enjoying elderberries the last couple years. Even started marking them on my map when I'm hiking around.
I suck at finding morels but they sure are a treat!

 

[Straight Arrow]

Wild onions with trout over the campfire ... delicious!
Morels sautéed in butter over wild elk tenderloin, with a pinch of garlic ... scrumptious table fare!
Huckleberries with ice cold freshly filtered high fast mountain stream water ... nothing more refreshing!

 

[MThuntr]

Anything that is edible I'll eat. Grouse whortleberry (same genus as blueberries and huckleberries) are my favorite but you practically need an acre of them to get a sandwich baggie full of them. I'm a fan of thimbleberries if I can get to them before they dry out.

 

[Islander]

Wild persimmons when perfectly ripe. Carolina Tea (cassina). Raspberries of course. Oxalis.

 

[dirtclod Az.]

I love meadow muffins and road apples!

 

[Dakotakid]

Growing up we ate Indian turnips but the tops are probable dried off by now making it difficult to find.