Historically valued by ethnic minority peoples, uncultivated foods such as Wild Edible Plants (WEP) have become popular in post-industrial societies. Urban foragers and Michelin star restaurants are validating the Local Environmental Knowledge (LEK) of indigenous people, but stereotypes about wild foods as “uncivilized” remain, especially among young people. This unfair representation prevents the chance to celebrate the links between indigenous food culture and community health, even as biodiversity loss, rising obesity, and global pandemics reveal the urgency for healthy local food systems. The Miyawaki (宮脇) method from Japan and the wild gardening approach of ‘Feed the Future Innovation Lab’ show promising methods for integrating wild foods into modern landscapes, but they neglect the deeper wisdom and biodiversity of ethnic minority peoples. Using trans-disciplinary work between scientists, ethnic minority partners and local organizations in five Asian countries, this project aims to promote the social value and accessibility of wild foods for modern society by developing wild indigenous gardens that valorise LEK, encourage mutual understanding between indigenous people, and bring wild foods into a new vision of modern living and eating.