Stonecrop or Sedum is commonly grown as an ornamental plant in many gardens but is also an edible green that is actually quite tasty. Sedum is not a native plant but an imported plant that escaped cultivation very easily and is often found at old homesteads or compost piles where garden materials have been disposed. There are many types of sedums and most are safe, but the tiny creeping varieties that are often used in rock gardens should be avoided. Stonecrop has a very fres

Sorrel is a perennial plant with a very lemony bite. It is best identified by its glossy, narrow, arrow-shaped leaves with pointed lobes at the base. There are three varieties of Wild Sorrel that can be found all over Newfoundland. Sorrel should be eaten in small quantities due to the fact that it contains oxalic acid. But small amounts are perfectly fine to eat, so I regularly use sheep and garden sorrel in my salads for a nice lemony flavour. Sheep Sorrel: the much smaller

Lamb’s Quarters is also known as Wild Spinach, Pigweed and Goose Foot. It is a wild perennial green found in gardens, compost piles or areas with rich soil. Lamb’s Quarters can be harvested and used as a salad green. It has a spinach-like flavour with a very pleasant nutty aftertaste. It is one of my favourite salad greens and I use it very frequently in my mixed wild salad greens. Like spinach, it contains oxalic acid and should be consumed in moderation. The seeds it produc

A very tedious harvest but so worth the work! For such a tiny little berry, it is packed with big flavour. Wild strawberries are a low growing perennial found in meadows, yards, and other grassy areas. Berries grow much better in places where the grass around it isn’t growing too tall so it doesn't choke them out. These plans like to grow beside woodland trails and in grassy areas mixed with moss. The plants look like cultivated strawberries, but they are much smaller, with s

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