Alright. What can we eat when we are in the middle of no-where (k-country)? Apparently all sorts of stuff. Here's a quick list from a speaker I heard a while ago.

Update: It looked incomplete, so I'm filling in the blanks.

Idiot Proof Plants

Plant	Part	Taste	When to Pick	Notes
Fire Weed	Stalk			Peeled, it can be eaten raw or cooked. Substitute for asparagus.
	Shoots		Late Spring or Early Fall
	Unopened Flower Buds			Stir-fry or salads.
	Roots	Sweet (spring)		Raw, cooked, or dried and ground.
Wild Rose	Hips	Acid/sweet	late Aug and Sept.	Rose hip tea is fairly common.
	Roots			Used in tea.
	Petals	Sweet		Candied, edible garnish, drink flavoring, etc.
Wolfwillow / Silverberry	Berries	Savory (ripe) Sour (un-ripe)		Raw or cooked. Dry and mealy texture. Good in soup.
Buffalo Berry	Berry	Sour/bitter Sweetens after frost	Fall	Good for flavoring meat. Good in pies and jellies.
Juniper	Boughs			Not edible, but steaming the boughs and breathing it in is used for joint ache :)
	Needles			Used in tea to help with joint ache.
	Berry	quote: "About as palatable as a pinecone - which they are related to."	Deep Purple - Fall	Use 4 berries per pound of meat for flavoring. Eating 'large' (never defined) amounts of berries causes cramps and diarrhea, but in moderate doses can cure said problems (go figure). It's a fairly powerful diuretic as well. Can cause mis-carriages... Floating the berries in alcohol for a few months transfers the good stuff to the drink (It's what flavors your gin) Ground berries can be put on cuts and scrathes as an antibiotic.
Lodgepole Pine	Needles	Citrus		Steep needles to make tea.
	Inner bark	Sweet	Spring	Raw, or sugar coated.
Plantain	Leaves	Young - Rich Mature - Bitter		Crush leaves and rub on stings, cuts, etc. Mild antiseptic and antibacterial. Good for poisionous bites and stings (brown recluse spider). Soak leaves overnight in olive oil then place on bite/swelling till it is completely gone. Keep them super hydrated and at rest (about 3 days). Also semi-effective for rattlesnake bites apparently if crushed up and put over bite, renewing every 5 min or so. Apparently flushes out heavy metals if used as a tea (max 1 cup of tea a day).
Burdock	2nd year shoots	Sweet (roasted)		Peel and boil for 20 minutes. Burdock 'may' lower blood sugar levels.
	1st year roots			Scrub/peel off rind (bitter), then boil for 20 minutes. Burdock 'may' lower blood sugar levels.
	Leaves		Crush and use for burns and dry skin.
Lambs Quarters	Leaves	Spinach/kale like		Steam until soft/tender. Will turn dark green. Young leaves and new shoots can be eaten raw.
	Stalks
Dandelion	Leaves	Bitter/spicy	Early spring / late fall after frost	Raw, steamed, blanched (removes bitterness), sauteed, etc. Creme de pissenlits is cream of dandelion soup :) Roots can be dried and ground for tea/coffee replacement.
	Stalks
	Roots
	Flower			Same as the rest or a garnish.

Some Care to Identify Properly Plants

Plant	Part	Taste	When to Pick	Notes
Sweet Vetch / Hedysarum (Looking for a new pic, this one got a copyright complaint. See the copyrighted image here: http://www.em.ca/garden/native/nat_hedysarum_boreale.html)	Stalks	Rich	Spring	H. hedysaroides, H. alpinum, and H. boreale are edible. H. mackenzii usually won't kill you, but be prepared for a really shitty night. Eat like parsnips or potatoes; raw, fried, boiled, etc, etc.
	Roots		Early spring or fall after frost
Cow Parsnip	Mature Stalk	Potent		Peel outer skin and eat raw. You can roast unpeeled stalks.
	Young Stalk	Mild/sweet		Peel outer skin and eat raw or boiled.
	Roots	Potent		Cooked, use like parsnip.

Poisonous!!! DO NOT EAT EVER EVER EVER