Life Skills

🌿 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 2 · Soil & Seed

Wild Seed ID

ID 5 wild seeds + 1 lookalike with the key.

Wild seeds, wild starches

Long before fields, people lived on wild seeds — acorns, hickory, wild rice, amaranth, lambsquarters. Most need leaching or grinding. None should be eaten without certain ID.

Drag & Sort

Edible, toxic, or look-alike?

Sort each into the right bin. When unsure → DON'T eat.

Tray

Acorn (after leaching)Wild garlic (smells like garlic)Lily-of-the-valleyLambsquarters seedYew berry / seedAmaranth seedDeath camas bulb

Edible (with prep)

Toxic / DO NOT EAT

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Daily Streak

Acorn leaching streak

Change the water on shelled acorns each day until the water runs clear. Mark today when you've swapped the water.

Current streak

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Goal

5 days

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Seed Forager

You found, ID'd, and prepared a wild seed.

ID'd 3 wild seed-bearing plants with a key
Avoided 1 toxic look-alike (named it)
Harvested under the Rule of Thirds (took ≤ 1/3)
Processed and tasted one wild starch

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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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🖐️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.
👃Smell test
Crush a leaf gently between your fingers. Does it smell like onion? Like mint? Like nothing? Smells are clues.
👀Three look-arounds
Look at one leaf, then up at the whole plant, then down at the ground. What grows near it?
🧺One basket, one plant
If you collect, keep each kind of plant in its own little bag. That way nothing sneaky gets mixed in.