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I'm constantly trying to learn more about wild foraging. I know most every plant in my area, but wading through the bullshit for what plants are good for is pretty difficult. You have to comb through mounds of anecdotes and regurgitated blog post information to find something that is legitimate. Otherwise, everything seems like it is the end all cure for fucking every ailment ever.
Foraging for the edibles are super easy for the most part. That harder part is learning when, how, and what part to harvest. The hardest part can be figuring out how to make it more palatable since not everything is all that tasty. Beyond that, it is learning how to preserve the food you have extra and finding food in between times of abundance. Like this time of year, there's not much in my local woods that is easily foraged as food or medicine. It is mostly pine needles, tree bark xylem, wild onions/garlic, seeds, and multiflora rose hips. If you are lucky, you can find a stand of nut trees that the squirrels haven't cleared the ground of all the nuts. It won't even be for a few months that I can tap trees for sap. If I'm lucky, I can find burdock and cattail, but being winter, the ground and water can be frozen solid.
