Kat Mackinnon and Briana Wiles – Identifying Wild Plants

Kat Mackinnon and Briana Wiles – Identifying Wild Plants

Check it out: Kat Mackinnon and Briana Wiles – Identifying Wild Plants

Learn how to properly identify wild edible, medicinal, and poisonous plants in North America in BACKPACKER’s Identifying Wild Plants online education course. Designed for any outdoor adventurer, this e-learning course will teach you the difference between wild carrot and water hemlock, what plants taste like green beans or add spice to a salad, what to avoid on the trail, and more.

Whether you’re a day hiker looking to snack on wild plants along the trail or an experienced backpacker who wants to add freshly picked plants to your next meal, this online course will teach you which plants near you are safe and which could kill you.

How This Course Works

We know you have a busy schedule, so we’ve designed this course to be taken at your own pace. You’ll learn through a variety of interactive formats, including video instruction, photo descriptions, and more. Each lesson builds on the last, and you can take it as quickly or slowly as you want. Plus, once you purchase the course, the lessons are yours forever.

Syllabus:

01. Welcome to Identifying Wild Plants

• Course Overview
• Plant Names

02. Basic Plant ID

• General Identification
• Free Course Preview
• Plant Habitats and Habits
• Plant Characteristics
• Plant Families
• Basic Plant ID Quiz

03. Harvesting And Processing

• Tools of the Trade
• Harvesting Do’s and Don’ts
• Gathering in Sensitive or Disturbed Habitats
• Harvesting Weedy Plants
• Gathering Sustainably
• What and How to Harvest

04. What Not To Pick

• Poisonous Plants
• Sensitive and At-Risk Plants

05. Bioregion-Specific Plants

• 20 Most Common Plants
• Breaking Down the Regions
• Pacific Northwest
• Mountain States
• Southwest
• Midwest
• Deep South
• Southeast
• Northeast
• Alaska
• Hawaii

06. Course Wrap-Up

• Keep Harvesting
• Course Survey and Certificate