Learn about 5 of the best edible wild plants growing in springtime in Australia. Free food everywhere.

Plants, Resourcediego bonetto29 August 2024wild edibles, spring, springtime, australia, learn, how to, forage, foraging, wild food, weeds, medicineComment

How to identify, harvest and eat Salsify. Oh My!

Oh, my! Salsify!
Learn about this common wild edible growing right now at the start of spring in the south-east and south-west of Australia.
It is yummy!

Plants, Resourcediego bonetto14 October 2022salsify, eat weeds, weeds, edible, tragopogon, eatweeds, foraging, forage, free, resilience, learn, how to, australia Comments

Cleavers, they stick to you and you can eat them too

Cleavers cling to you, and you can eat them too.
Learn about this amazing wild plant useful for food and medicine

The Weedy One - A short doco about a migrant journey to find connection through weeds.

The story of Diego Bonetto, a wild food forager who tells the tale of his struggles and finding his own path in a world he doesn’t quite fit.

EAT WEEDS A field guide to foraging

EAT WEEDS
A field guide to foraging

How to identify, harvest and use wild plants

mediadiego bonetto26 May 2022forage, foraging, media, book, eat weeds, buy, edible weed, edible, weeds, sustainability, survivalComment

My Garden Path - Eating weeds on Gardening Australia

Gardening Australia segment on how to forage for edible weeds. They are yummy!!

How yummy is this weed? Madeira vine, the edible menace

Madeira vine is a weed of biblical proportions. It is also edible and medicinal.

How to identify and eat wood Sorrel, check your lawn for this sour edible green

Wood sorrel is easy to find and to love, with heart-shaped leaves and showy flowers.

Plants, Resourcediego bonetto10 August 2021wood sorrel, oxalis, identification, food, food eat weeds, weeds, eat, eatweedsComment

Weeds, and why we hate them.

Weeds. Why do we hate them so much? Is it because we fear them? Is it any use to treat all uninvited plants equally? What happened that we can no longer share the earth with other species?

researchdiego bonetto25 February 2021weed, weeds, wildfood, article, rant, ecology, agriculture, invasive, history, opinion, writing, foraging, biodiversity, resilience, sustainability, sustainableComment

Wild food foraging - Ep 3

Make sure you know what you're looking at before you eat it. If in doubt, do not eat it.
The way to check on key identification features is through visual clues, but also by using your other senses like smell and touch.
A great way to remember this is through stories, so learn the stories related to the plants, 'cause that will remind you of the features.

Wild food foraging - Ep 2

The best to forage is your own garden, as there is where you know what is growing and how it is managed. In your garden, you will be able to take your time to learn about plants, how to identify them and expand your knowledge. Following from that you explore your neighbourhood where you will spot trees with overhanging fruits. Learn patterns and start mapping. There are food and medicine everywhere.

How to forage for wild edibles- Ep.1

There are food and medicine plants everywhere you look. From the great knowledge of Aboriginal people to the knowledge of migrants related to weeds and non-natives, we have plenty to celebrate. Here’s a four parts video series on how to forage for wild edibles.

Why foraging today?

Watch a short intro to a four-part series that want to present the what, how, where and why of foraging in Australia.

Resource, mediadiego bonetto1 July 2020foraging, wild, food, wildfood, edible, weeds, learn, how to, workshop, why, what, how, when, foraged, sydney, bonetto, chef, resilience, sustainability, ediblecities, edible city, survival, living, wolktolkComment

How to identify and use yellow dock and its close relatives

Once upon a time, they used to say that if you get stung by nettle you should find a dock leaf and rub it on, and the rush would be gone.

Is it true? Or is it just folk lore?

How to identify and use sow thistle, the perfect edible weed.

How to tell a dandelion and a sowthistle apart? Eat them both!
Sowthistle is an amazing ad celebrated plant food all over the world, including Australia.

Walking with knowledge can be a yummy journey.

I went to the country and had a feast of weeds. True story. Images and recipes attached>

Eventsdiego bonetto25 February 2019dishes, wildfood, wildfood store, store, wild, food, recipes, weeds, artistfarmerscientist, artComment

Working with regional communities for a greater good

Earlier in the year I worked with some amazing individuals and organisations to provide a feast of weeds.
Here’s the video of the event, what we wanted to achieve and how we did it. Thank you to all involved and looking forward to work alongside you all soon enough.

Eventsdiego bonetto9 November 2018wildfood, wildfoodstore, wild food store, weeds, recipe, dinner, bingara, community, artistfarmerscientist, art, artists, ecology, resilience, kscaComment

Why foraging?

Are you interested in foraging?
1-the best place to forage is your own garden.
2- positively identify everything
3-be nice to the colonies
Listen to a 10 minutes interview with Diego Bonetto to learn about it>