Wild food The sustainable choice
YOUR GARDEN has been overtaken by weeds. The herbs you’ve planted are long gone and forgotten. But what if those weeds could be your first edible harvest? The activity of foraging is booming, and eating common weeds is only step one when it comes to rethinking what should go on to our plates. From chicken of the woods, aka wild mushrooms, to waterblommetjies, South Africa is home to plenty of indigenous delicacies worth exploring, but our landscape is also packed with invasive species.
EATING THE INVADERS
It’s pretty simple – an invasive
