BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 8, 2024
After work yesterday, I went out to the parking lot to find dinner. I live on the top floor of an office building, and my access to land is limited to a patch of grass, rose bushes and trees at the edge of the asphalt. I wasn’t optimistic about the foraging prospects there, but in minutes, the patch yielded enough edible greens and flowers in the grass to make a salad. Investing some time in learning basic plant identification and common species in Maine is worth the time. Here are a few common edibles: dandelion, broadleaf plantain, curly leaf dock shoots, purple dead nettle, forsythia flowers, wood sorrel, purslane, lamb’s quarter and garlic mustard.