African olives
Learn how to ID and harvest this edible and medicinal wonder.
Beach mustard
A spicy addition to your beach walks.
Blackberries
This is an exceptional wild treat. Find out where and when to go.
Bunya
A native tree with enormous nuts!
Chickweed
Excellent food and outstanding medicinal plant.
Amaranth species
Widespread edible, rich in minerals and protein.
Blue Flax Lily
Sweet edible berries for a short season in summer.
Brazilian Cherry
Common garden and street planting in northern NSW/ S.E. Queensland.
Cleavers
The sticky rambler with incredible medicinal qualities.
Dandelion
Much celebrated edible and medicinal weed.
Farmer’s friend
AKA cobbler peg, this is a fantastic herb: food + medicine
Feral Apples
South East Australian country roads are lined with feral apples.
Fleabane
Used as insect repellant in folk medicine.
Mallow species
There are several edible mallows in Australlia.
Mulberry
One of the most foraged berry in Australia.
Magnolia
Did you know you can eat the magnolia flowers?
Neptune’s necklace
A yummy seaweed growing on rock platforms.
Onion weed
A common edible in people’s lawn
Plantain species
Learn how to tell apart the plantain species for food ad medicine.
Rambling dock
This is a common coastal wild edible.
Saffron milk cap
Learn how to forage edible mushrooms in Australia.
Sea lettuce
Learn how to harvest, cook and eat this nutritious seaweed.
Scotch thistle
Excellent wild edible available everywhere.
Shepherd purse
Widespread edible and medicinal plant.
Wild brassica
There are many close relatives of the shop veggies out there
Wild lettuce
The wild counterpart of the commercial lettuce.
Dock
There are several docs in Australia, exotic and native, all edible.
Fennel
Excellent and abundant wild edible
Feral Plums
The treat of summer.
Flatweed
AKA Cat’s ears, this common bitter edible is everywhere
Golden kelp
Learn how to harvest and use seaweeds in Australia.
Madeira vine
This is yummy. And a menace. Eat it up!
Nettle
Ancient food and medicine all over the world.
Pink peppercorn
A floral, spicy fruit available on trees all over southern Australia
Purslane
Summer’s super nutritious edible weed
Robinia
This common street planting has edible flowers.
Salsify
Also known as oyster plant this common spring edible is a treat
Scurvy weed
Excellent and versatile native edible.
The slipperies
There are three main variety of Suillus mushroom in the forest. All edible and yummy
Sow thistle
Much celebrated edible weed.
Three corner garlic
Exceptional garlic substitude growing wild in southern Australia
Wattle
Amazing seasonal, marker, yummy seeds, flowers and more.
Wood sorrel
Learn about this common edible and sour treat.