Did you know that we only eat about 0.1% of all the plants we know exist on the earth? Of the roughly 400,000 known vascular plants on earth, about 300,000 can be eaten with the right preparation & knowledge; but out of those 300,000 we humans only eat about 200 of those plants in total, globally. Why is that? Well, excluding the non-edible & poisonous plants that we simply just shouldn’t eat, there are a few other reasons we don’t consume a lot of plants. Mostly those reasons are due to agriculture & harvesting on a mass scale. Some crops are less weather and pest resistant, harder to be transported, grow slowly, or simply don’t produce as much yield for profit. But that’s on a large scale. Imagine how many delicious & nutritious plants are out there not being enjoyed just because the local government can’t make enough money off of it? some of them might quite literally be in your backyard (or alley-way) right now.