Eat the Weeds Deck

Discover the wild edible foods around you—and learn the essentials of safe, smart, and sustainable foraging.

Foraging can turn an ordinary walk into a treasure hunt. But before you start gathering wild foods, it pays to know the basics. The Eat the Weeds Deck packs practical foraging guidance into a portable set of 50 reference cards designed to help you become a more knowledgeable and responsible forager.

Start with essential dos and don’ts, including positive identification, choosing safe places to forage, harvesting responsibly, and learning from trusted local experts. Build your plant-identification skills with approachable lessons in botany, from leaves and stems to flowers, fruits, seeds, and roots. Then discover why experienced foragers learn their local toxic plants first, with examples of dangerous species and potentially confusing lookalikes.

You’ll also meet approachable wild edibles such as dandelions, cattails, nettles, mulberries, wild strawberries, and more, along with helpful information about their uses and nutritional benefits. Perfect for beginning foragers, gardeners, nature lovers, and anyone curious about wild foods, the Eat the Weeds Deck is an inviting introduction to a rewarding outdoor pursuit—and a handy companion to the comprehensive book Eat the Weeds.

Deck Features:

• Essential foraging safety, ethics, and best practices
• Botany basics for understanding plant-identification clues
• Toxic plants, dangerous lookalikes, and common hazards
• Beginner-friendly wild edibles to start learning
• Nutritional insights into useful wild foods