If this site inspires you to do one thing, let it be this: find this plant in your backyard and make tempura with it.
Ground Plum: A Perennial Pea Plant With Pods that Pass for Plums
A wild xeric plant with plum-shaped pods.
Maypop: A Cold-Hardy Passion Fruit Native to North America
A cold-hardy passion fruit for vegetable gardens in temperate areas.
Cinnamon Vine: A Cold-Hardy Yam that Grows "Potatoes" Like Fruit
A vine that produces edible bulbils that look like potatoes, survives the cold, and produces giant (delicious) tubers. Count me in.
Bush Morning Glory: A 45 kg (100 lb) Cold Hardy Sweet Potato
Thissy here is a wild and beautiful bush with gorgeous flowers… oh yeah… and it produces a colossal man-sized sweet potato underground.
Two Edible and Drought-Tolerant Sumacs for Food, Medicine, and… Male Pregnancy.
How can a man get pregnant? Can a man make berrirific lemonade from this wild roadside weed-tree? Apparently, yes & yes.
Bread Root: A Native "Potato" that Needs No Supplemental Watering
If you ever find yourself naked, bewildered, and running from a marauding group of men who wish to murder you, you may wish that you had become a bit more familiar with bread root: a wild plant with an edible root.
Bulbous Spring Parsley: Because "Bulbous" is the #1 Best Word Ever
A wild and sweet spring underground vegetable.
Miner's Lettuce: A Delicious Salad Green that Can be Grown on a Winter's Windowsill?
A wild edible salad green that is loaded with vitamin C that can be grown indoors in low light.
Strawberry Spinach: A Beautiful New World Herb for Food and Paint
A wild salad green that produces beautiful red fruits and can be grown indoors undertow-light conditions.
Devil's Claw: A Vegetable that Moves Like the Venus Fly Trap
A xeric wild food that produces pepper shaped fruits and dons gorgeous flowers with moving parts.
Common Mallow: A Strangely Erotic Medicinal Powerhouse
A common garden weed/vegetable that is medicinal and delicious when prepared well.
Wild Sarsaparilla: From Native Medicine to the Medicine Show
Do you suffer from [insert horrific illness here]? Well, this wild plant is SURELY will claim to be the cure for what ails ye.
Achocha: An Edible Gourd that Freaking Explodes
This is a garden vegetable that will produce fruit which will EXPLODE. I mean… CUMMON!
Stinging Nettle: A Delicious Medicine Covered in Glass Needles Full of Acid
An edible and medicinal wild plant armed with glass needles full of acid.
Gotu Kola: An Inimitably Weird and Exciting Story (Part 1)
An unassuming edible plant with one of the most wild stories I have ever heard.
Chicory: The Lady Waiting by the Road
A roadside weed with a long and storied relationship with humankind.
Goa Bean: It'll Make Your Other Plants Feel Bad About Themselves
A garden bean with a massive amount of edible uses.