TOP PLANTS FOR Foraging

If you’d like to try foraging on your own, here are Ashley’s favorite

plants to look for.

• FOR FOOD: prickly pear, fennel, nasturtium, dandelion, sow thistle, nettle, chickweed, lamb’s-quarters, sage blossoms, miner’s lettuce, bay laurel, elderberry, kumquat, loquat

• FOR MEDICINE: fennel, horehound, yarrow, dandelion, elderberry, sages, yerba santa

• FOR DYE: toyon, fennel, nettle, elderberry, prickly pear, golden yarrow, ironbark eucalyptus, sour grass (left) One easy way to dry out herbs is to hang them upside down. “I use rubber bands to bind them because they lose their water content as they shrink,” writes Ashley. “Without the rubber bands, many of them will fall out of their bundles as they dry.”