Discover over forty wild food plants you can forage and harvest in April.
Availability should only be seen as a rough guide. Variations in climate and location will make a difference to what’s available.
Bramble – Rubus fruticosus agg.
Shoots: Raw, cooked
Brooklime – Veronica beccabunga
Leaf: Cooked
Charlock – Sinapis arvensis
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Chickweed – Stellaria media
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Shoots and tips: Raw, cooked
Cow parsley – Anthriscus sylvestris
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Stem: Raw, cooked
Crosswort – Cruciata laevipes
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Shoots and tips: Raw, cooked
Dandelion – Taraxacum spp.
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Darwin’s barberry – Berberis darwinii
Flowers: Raw
Flowering currant – Ribes sanguineum
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Flowers: Raw, cooked
Garlic mustard –Alliaria petiolata
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Shoots and tips: Raw, cooked
Greater stitchwort – Stellaria holostea
Shoots and tips: Raw, cooked
Ground elder Aegopodium podagraria
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Ground ivy – Glechoma hederacea
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Flowers: Raw
Hairy bittercress – Cardamine hirsuta
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Shoots and tips: Raw, cooked
Hawthorn – Crataegus monogyna
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Flower: Raw
Hedge mustard – Sisymbrium officinale
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Hogweed – Heracleum sphondylium
Leaf: Cooked
Shoots: Cooked
Horseradish – Armoracia rusticana
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Lime – Tilia spp.
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Mallow – Malva spp.
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Mint – Mentha spp.
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Shoots and tips: Raw, cooked
Mugwort – Artemisia vulgaris
Leaf: Cooked
Shoots: Cooked
Navelwort – Umbilicus rupestris
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Nipplewort – Lapsana communis
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Shoots and tips: Raw, cooked
Orpine – Sedum telephium
Leaf: Raw
Oxeye daisy – Leucanthemum vulgare
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Shoots and tips: Raw, cooked
Pignut – Conopodium majus
Root: Raw, cooked
Pine – Pinus spp.
Shoots and tips: Raw, cooked
Red campion – Silene dioica
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Shoots and tips: Raw, cooked
Red dead nettle – Lamium purpureum
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Shoots and tips: Raw, cooked
Sea beet – Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Shoots and tips: Raw, cooked
Shepherd’s-purse – Capsella bursa-pastoris
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Shoots and tips: Raw, cooked
Sorrel – Rumex acetosa
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Sowthistle – Sonchus spp.
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Shoots and tips: Raw, cooked
Stinging nettle – Urtica dicoica
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Shoots and tips: Raw, cooked
Tansy – Tanacetum vulgare
Leaf: Cooked
Violet – Viola spp.
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Flowers: Raw, cooked
White dead nettle – Lamium album
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Shoots and tips: Raw, cooked
Wild garlic/ramsons – Allium ursinum
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Flowers: Raw, cooked
Buds: Raw, cooked
Wild mustard – Brassica spp.
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Shoots and tips: Raw, cooked
Wood avens – Geum urbanum
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Root: Raw, cooked
Wood sorrel – Oxalis acetosella
Leaf: Raw, cooked
Yarrow – Achillea millefolium
Leaf: Raw, cooked