Know Your Onions: An Introduction to the Allium/Onion family for foragers
As wild garlic gets ever more popular, other members of this tasty and abundant family of plants are often overlooked.
The attached article explores several members of the allium family – their identification, distribution, mindful harvesting, dangerous look-alikes, nutritional properties and cooking/preservation techniques.
I originally wrote this article for Bushcraft and Survival Skills Magazine.
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You can read more about species featured in the article elsewhere on this website:
- Wild Garlic – Edibility, Identification, Distribution
- Few Flowered (and 3 cornered) Leek – Edibility, Identification, Distribution
- How to ferment wild greens easily
- Recipe: Wild allium, goats cheese and hazelnut pesto
More beginners guides for foragers:
- Know Your Carrots – An Introduction to the Carrot/Apiaceae Family for Foragers
- An Introduction to Fungi Foraging
- An Introduction to Seaweed Foraging
- More Foraging Advice
- Wild Food Guide