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GENERALIZED HARVEST CALENDAR for U.S. Mid-Atlantic Region

 

 

SPRING – MARCH/ APRIL / MAY

 

SUMMER – JUNE / JULY / AUGUST

 

FALL – SEPTEMBER / OCT / NOVEMBER

 


FALL cont'd


ROOTS: APRIL (many also in late fall)

arrowhead, wapato

black birch

burdock

carrot, wild, Queen Ann's Lace

cattail

chameleon

chicory

cresses (peppercress, shepard's purse)

dandelion

daylily

evening primrose

garlic, wild

garlic mustard

ginger

groundnut

Jerusalem artichoke (after 2nd frost )

lesser celandine

lovage, wild celery

mallows (marsh, common, hollyhock)

onion, wild

parsnip, wild

ramps

reed grass

salsify

sassafras

skunk cabbage

smilax, carrion

Solomon’s seal

thistles

toothwort


SHOOTS: (APRIL/MAY)

asparagus, wild

bamboo

cattail

daylily

devil's walking stick

dock (patience dock is best, also in fall)

fiddlehead fern

American groundnut/ wild bean / hopniss

hosta

japanese knotweed, caution

milkweed

pokeweed, caution

reed grass

smilax, carrion

smilax, greenbrier

sorrel, wild

sweet potato pomoea batatus

 

 

 

 

 
BEANS / PODS: early summer

American groundnut / hopniss / wild bean
locust, honey – pod
lupini beans
milkweed pod
ginkgo  - bean inside of stinky fruit
hyacinth bean-pod


STALKS:

burdock (2nd year, leaf stalk also)

cattail

docks

mallow

reed grass

salsify

thistle, bull

wild celery

SEEDS:
cress
docks
garlic mustard

 

 


GRAINS: (& seeds used like grains)
amaranth
cattails
foxtail grass
lamb's quarters
rice
reed grass


NUTS: SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER
acorns
black walnut
butternut
hazelnut
hickory
beech


ROOTS: (many also in early spring, April)
arrowhead, wapato
black birch

burdock

carrot, wild, Queen Ann's Lace

cattail

chameleon

chicory

cresses (peppercress, shepard's purse)

dandelion

daylily

evening primrose

garlic, wild

garlic mustard

ginger

groundnut

Jerusalem artichoke (after 2nd frost )

lesser celandine

lovage, wild celery

mallows (marsh, common, hollyhock)

onion, wild

parsnip, wild

ramps

reed grass

salsify

sassafras

skunk cabbage

smilax, carrion

Solomon’s seal
& false Solomon's seal

thistles

toothwort

 



 


SEEDS:

elm tree, Chinese
elm tree, Siberian
jewel weed
locust tree, honey
mallow, Indian
maple tree
sunflower, wild
thistle, milk