r/foraging

783k members
r/foraging is a subreddit with 783k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses foraging, id, mushrooms, plants, and wild, and they frequently recommend/review plant app, shoes, and book recommendation.
Info on finding, identifying, harvesting, and cooking wild edible food.

Popular Themes in r/foraging

#1
Advice Requests
: "Wild blackberries? And are they safe to consume. We are in Middle Georgia, US"
15 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Service berry jam!"
2 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Officials Beg Californians to Stop Picking Wild Mushrooms Amid Record Number of Poisonings"
1 post
#4
Ideas
: "Service Berry Pie"
1 post
#5
News
: "Mushroom hunting in California? Be careful with amanitas and lookalikes- amatoxin mushroom poisonings continue with 49 hospitalized as of 5/14"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/foraging

#1

Foraging

: "Foraging kids"
186 posts
#2

Id

: "mulberries Id??"
70 posts
#3

Mushrooms

: "Midwest Mushrooms"
68 posts
#4

Plants

: "Went to look for some salad greens but instead got lost in the beauty of it all!"
63 posts
#5

Wild

: "Wild strawberries"
60 posts
#6

Identification

: "What is this plant that's growing alongside my blackberries?"
49 posts
#7

Struggling

31 posts
#8

Berries

: "Pick some salmon Berries today on a dog walk"
31 posts
#9

Looking

30 posts
#10

Edible

: "Who is this in Minnesota and is it Edible?"
24 posts

Products Discussed in r/foraging

Plant App

7 reviews
#1
INaturalist
4.0 from 2 reviews
#2
Seek
4.0 from 2 reviews
#3
Plantify
3.0 from 1 review

Shoes

2 reviews
#1
Salomon
5.0 from 1 review
#2
Asolo
5.0 from 1 review
#1
Sam Thayer
5.0 from 2 reviews

Flair Used in r/foraging

#1
Plants
: "Scallop and Wild Fennel Tartare with Elderflower and Black Nightshade"
42 posts
#2
ID Request (country/state in post)
: "Found a freshwater clam? Didn’t know it was a thing tbh"
27 posts
#3
Mushrooms
: "chicken haul!!!"
20 posts
#4
Hunting
: "We eating good tonight"
2 posts

Member Growth in r/foraging

Yearly
+49k members(6.6%)

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Last updated: June 15, 2026