The relevance and novelty of the topic is argued by the great national importance of using the potential of natural and climatic conditions for the growth of wild fruit crops and forest mushrooms, the place of this product in the national economy of the country, as well as the prospects for the sale of environmentally friendly wild plants on the international market. Russia's natural resources favor the growth of ecologically pure wild-growing crops in large volumes, both in the European part of the country and in the regions of Siberia and the Far East. Significant volumes of wild fruit and berry crops, mushrooms, nuts, medicinal herbs and other products useful for human health can be collected annually in the natural forests and swamps. Not everywhere the collection of these products is organized at the proper level. As a result, a significant amount of wild-growing Russian products does not enter the domestic and foreign market in the food supply system. Insufficient regulatory and legal support of this sphere restrains the development of the domestic market of wild plants. There are few organizational and economic measures that stimulate the collection and processing of wild fruits, berries, mushrooms, nuts and other products. One of the ways to use the existing potential for expanding the market of wild plants is a more active and full use of available resources and forms of cooperative procuring offices, receiving points of consumer societies of the Central Union (Centrosoyuz) of Russia. A more active regulatory and economic support for this activity is proposed, both on the part of state authorities and the expansion of cooperative entrepreneurship in organizing harvesting of wild fruit and berry crops and wild mushrooms from rural residents and temporary labor collectives collecting wild plants.