Once you buy this program, it's yours! We'll be going through it together for the next 12 months but you'll be able to access it continually after that. AND you'll be welcome to join in the calls and have access to all the extras and Bonuses that will be offered to the folks who join next year, and the year after that, and the year after that, and so on and so on and so on... Which means that for one low price you get perpetual access for years to come!

While it's true that plants have particular environments and climates in which they like to grow, the edibles I'm choosing for this program are widely available across the United States, Canada and much or Europe. In fact, many of the plants you'll be learning about were originally brought over from "the old countries" with European settlers.

While I can't promise that every plant in the program will always be in your area, I've specifically chosen wild edibles that are found commonly across wide swaths of the country and grow in multiple regions. That way they will be good choices for as many people, in as many parts of Canada, the U.S. and Europe as possible!

If you live high in the mountains, or in a rainforest or desert area, or other more extreme environment, you may want to look for an edibles program that is more specific to your unique type of bioregion. Otherwise, there will be many, if not all, of the plants in this program readily and easily available to you!

Wild Edible World, along with every course you join, will be available in your individualized Course Library. When you sign up, you'll enter your email address and create a password. Your "Welcome" email will contain the link where you can log in to your personalized page showing all your courses and programs.

Everything for your Wild Edible World course will be right there, all in one place, and you can access it from any computer, laptop or table, or even from your phone!

I know, there is a lot of fear out there when it comes to Wild Edible plants. Our modern culture has internalized what Sam Thayer calls the "Poison Plant Fable". We've come to believe that almost anything that we don't buy in a store is out there waiting to make us sick or even kill us. We've been told over and over that there are many, many poison plants that look virtually identical to edible plants and even skilled botanists can't tell the difference between them.

The truth is, that's simply not true. According to the Native American Ethnobotany there are 31,566 kinds of vascular plants in all of Canada, the United States (including Hawaii) and Greenland. (Of those, indigenous tribes used 1886 as food.) According to the Peterson's Field Guide to Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants, there are fewer than 100 of these plants that are confirmed to have caused deaths in humans.

In fact, very few plants are deadly to humans. Many of those are already known to you as ornamental plants you have seen in flower gardens, such as Oleander, Delphinium and Lily of the Valley. Others must be ingested in such large or concentrated quantities that the possibility of ingesting enough to harm yourself without intending to is very remote.

There are also many foods we eat regularly, like potatoes, tomatoes and rhubarb, that have poisonous parts. Potato and tomato leaves can cause solanine poisoning. Eating even small amounts of the rhubarb leaf can be fatal. Yet we don't worry about them because we know what part of the plant to eat and when to eat it.

Wild edibles are exactly the same. One of the first lessons you will learn is understanding the Right Part, Right Time, Right Preparation. Just because part of a plant is edible doesn't mean all of that plant is edible, just like with the foods we eat every day.

As for even skilled botanists not being able to tell certain plants apart, that's not true either. Sure, there are plenty of plants that look similar to each other. Just like you see many similar looking foods in the grocery store. But none of them are identical. If you can tell the difference between a zucchini and a cucumber, or between a head of iceberg lettuce and a head of green cabbage, or between kale and swiss chard, you can tell the difference between any two plants out there.

It's just a matter of looking for the differences! In Wild Edible World I'll make sure you know exactly what to look for and how to differentiate between the plant you're looking for and any plants that may look somewhat similar, but probably not nearly as similar as you think. After all, if I asked you to write down a description of a head of iceberg lettuce and a description of a head of green cabbage, on paper they would sound virtually identical. Reading the descriptions you would think they were impossible to tell the difference. But if I sent you to the grocery store to buy a head of green cabbage, the odds of you coming back with a head of iceberg lettuce are pretty much zero! Right?

Wild edible plants are, in fact, just as safe as those foods you buy in the store. Once you know what to look for and how to use field guides with confidence and understand the steps of plant identification, you will realize just how easy it really is.

HOWEVER,
Just to be extra safe, since many of you will be brand new to wild edibles, EVERY PLANT IN WILD EDIBLE WORLD will be very easy to identify, very safe, and with no dangerous "look-similars" for you to worry about. If you ever have any concerns, you can contact me directly, post photos of the plants you've found into the Community and ask any questions you have to ensure that the plant you think you've found is the plant you have actually found. Your safety is always paramount and any time you are unsure, you should stop, wait and confirm before you go any further!

No problem! Once you join Wild Edible World it's yours. If you are too busy one month to go out looking, you can include that plant in your foraging once you have time again. If you've missed the edible part for the season, you can come back around to it that time next year to give it a try then.

You'll be able to access all the information on your plants long after our 12 months are finished. In fact, once you are a member of Wild Edible World you'll have access to all the calls and bonuses every time we offer this program in the future!

YES! All the Q & A Sessions and all the Interview with Experts will all be recorded and posted in your Course Library so you'll be able to access them any time you like.

PLUS in addition to the recorded videos, there will also be audio-only recordings posted, so you'll be able to consume your content on the go!

Absolutely not!
You don't need any previous experience with plants at all. Wild Edible World is designed for the average person! We start form the very beginning and provide you with all the information you will need to get started, get comfortable and get confident finding, identifying and trying wild edibles.

From the Video Introduction to the Field Guide Step-by-step, to the Bonus of the Plant Identification Workshop and the monthly Live Q & A Sessions, I'll be there to guide you every step of the way!