Edible flowers

This recipe for delicately sweet shortbread cookies is taken from Loria Stern's brand-new book release, Eat Your Flowers.

Edible Flowers you can Forage

Going to the florist will forever make your mouth water.

Our wide-ranging collection of edible flower recipes teaches you how to use edible flowers in all kinds of ways.

Edible flower chart

How to make edible candied flowers.

Dani Rendina

In Florida we are at the height of our garden season, right before the heavy rains, heat and humidity descend upon us for the summer. Up north, spring is here and the fruit trees are blooming and spring flowers are abundant. It is so fun just to walk out into the yard and pick the flowers I want to

Josh McFadden knows his way around an edible flower. In his cookbook with Martha Holmberg, Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables (May, 2017, Artisan Books), McFadden, the chef-owner of Ava Gene's and other Portland-area restaurants, shares one of the simplest and most beautiful ideas we've seen. Butter becomes a canvas for whatever herbs and edible flowers are in your garden. "I've never put this on a table without it prompting a lot of conversation and happy faces," says McFadden.

Flowers beautify your garden, attract pollinators and bring aesthetics and an exotic flavor to your meals. Find out which blooms are edible in your garden.

When you learn which flowers are edible and how to use them, you look at your garden with new eyes.

Organic seasonal edible flowers from Maddocks Farm Organics

Learn how to find and use edible flowers with this beginner-friendly guide, perfect for enhancing your wild food foraging adventures.