Medicinal weeds

Within the reach of your back steps, you can likely find medicinal herbs that stop bleeding, heal wounds, treat coughs and more.

Edible weeds are a great way to increase the foods you grow- and consume- without any additional work on your part. Here's a list of 15 edible weeds to try!

That daisy or chamomile like early spring wildflower might be daisy fleabane, Erigeron annuus. Perky fleabane grows in fields, roadsie ditches in North America.

Eating edible weeds is an easy way to increase your garden's productivity. While everyone loves to bring in the harvest, weeding is most people's least favorite part of gardening. What if weeding could be harvesting?

Common weeds that are good to eat include purslane, lambsquarter, dandelion, wild amaranth., and plantain. They are edible and delicious.

Creeping Charlie - not so creepy Glechoma hederacea Photo by Pam Broekemeier Earth Crown Creeping Charlie, also known as ground ivy, has had a bad rap for quite some time. Because it "creeps"

Though this plant is sometimes known as a weed, learning about the benefits might make you reconsider eliminating it from your garden.

Black-Eyed Susan is a beautiful perennial flower, but it also has potent medicinal benefits. It's closely related to echinacea, and it has many of the same medicinal properties. Just about everyone who's even paid passing

Luckily for us, foraging for mugwort is generally pretty easy in most areas, as it’s fairly widespread. Learn how to start foraging for this aromatic wild edible plant. #mugwort #foraging #homebrewing #wildplants