The Forgotten Edible Plants of our Ancestors

  • Over time there are things that we forget. Ways of life that fall to the wayside because other things come along and take away our attention. The same goes for gardening and survival.

    If you look at your garden or any produce aisle, you are bound to find the basics, carrots, lettuce, tomatoes. Our ancestors survived for thousands of years, some without many of the produce items we have come to know and love in recent times.

    So what did they eat? Well, the answer may surprise you.

    I have compiled for you on the next page a list of plants that have long been forgotten many of which, helped keep our ancestors alive and in good health. Make sure to commit these to memory as you never know when you may need it!

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    15 Comments

    1. Clinton C. Lewis said:

      Please only post links that take people right to the source. When I open a page and then it say click next to continue, I click the x at the top and close the window. One page full of ads is enough, don’t try to send to another.

    2. Jo Nash-Schaeuble said:

      I love it!!! The lemony flavor in my salad and my grandlittles pick the flowers off and just eat them.

    3. Steve Dixon said:

      I used to throw this stuff out of the garden by the handfuls. Been sampling it the last couple years. A tad lemony

    4. Wynn Sheppard said:

      Do not eat this plant shown as mugwort.. It is not and is instead highly poisonous plant called Manihot.. It is edible after much preparation and boiling off the toxic cyanide which is found throughout the entire plant. It is not found naturally iin America but does escape peoples yards.

    5. Wynn said:

      Thank you… Mugwort images are easy to find and is a very useful herb.

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