edible plants training
Edible Plants Training equips agriculture professionals with essential field skills to safely identify, test, and harvest key wild edibles, steer clear of toxic look-alikes, and evaluate habitats. This enhances food security, promotes sustainability, and supports effective land management practices in temperate regions.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course provides practical skills to identify, test, and safely utilise common wild edible plants in temperate North America. You will learn basic field botany, toxicology essentials, a systematic plant testing process, and in-depth profiles of species such as dandelion, plantain, nettle, and wild garlic. Gain confidence through a one-day field plan, ethical foraging practices, and trusted reference resources.
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Develop skills
- Rapid field identification: use key plant characteristics to safely confirm edible species.
- Pocket testing workflow: follow a straightforward sequence before tasting any wild plant.
- Toxic plant awareness: quickly recognise poisonous plant families and contamination indicators.
- Edible plant profiles: identify 5–7 essential wild foods, their usable parts, seasons, and similar non-edibles.
- Field documentation: record, label, and store plant samples for verification by experts.
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