Foraging Tips: Identifying Elderflowers and Other Wild Plants

So this is an elderflower. These are super, super easy to identify once you know what the flower looks like. You’re driving on the side of the road. You see these big white blossoms right here? Okay? So I’m driving down this road, I’m like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, my gosh, is that an elderflower? Mark it out, pin it on your phone, come back in a month or so when it’s ripe and you know where all the elderberries are. You find a plum tree, you figure out what the plum blooms look like. You’re driving down the side of the highway, you’re on this road. This is literally. Let me show you. This right here is literally a ditch. Okay? They’re also not spraying. This ditch doesn’t look like. You gotta make sure you’re not in areas where they are actively spraying glyphosate and round up and all that crap. So I’m just driving, I see the white boom, Mark it on the map, and I’m gonna come back. The last time I did this, I got a. Just from one or two bushes, I got enough elderberries to make a liter and a half of the syrup. That’s plenty for you and your family. So that’s elderberry. Elderberry. There’s some wild grape in here. This is so easy to see. When it’s just green, you don’t notice this, but now that it’s super bright, it’s easy to spot all along here. It likes wet areas. Of course. And this is a wet area. This is the early buds, this is the flowers. Those are fall. You can make tea out of those if you want to take green cuttings. There’s tons of plants right behind me, so sometimes I come with the snips. Take a couple, plant them in the ground, propagate them, do your thing. Anyone else do anything like this? Cause this is like so, so, so good to find the good spots if you don’t have your own land or you just wanna find some plants that you don’t have yet.