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🌿 Foraging & Wild Foods Identifying plants, ethical harvest, lookalikes, the forager's rules. Four age tiers — pick yours and dig in. Every tier is hands-on, not just reading.
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Week 1 · Nature Detectives Sharpen your eyes. Notice everything.
View week curriculum → Little Explorer · 5–7 Field Researcher · 8–10 Scholar · 11–14 Apprentice · 15–18
Week 1 · Nature Detectives
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Little Explorer · 5–7 Field Researcher · 8–10 Scholar · 11–14 Apprentice · 15–18
The first rule Meet 5 plants Sit spot
The forager's law
Never put a plant in your mouth without a grown-up The woods are full of food and full of medicine — and a few plants that will hurt you. Today we learn the rule that keeps every forager safe.
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1 🖐️ Hands, not mouth
We learn plants with our eyes, fingers, and nose first. Tasting is last and only with a grown-up who knows the plant.
2 👃 Smell test
Crush a leaf gently between your fingers. Does it smell like onion? Like mint? Like nothing? Smells are clues.
3 👀 Three look-arounds
Look at one leaf, then up at the whole plant, then down at the ground. What grows near it?
4 🧺 One basket, one plant
If you collect, keep each kind of plant in its own little bag. That way nothing sneaky gets mixed in.