The Tropical Dry Forest is a biome in which high temperatures, low rainfall, low humidity and a great diversity of species are conditions that identify it, however, it is one of the most threatened biomes of the Neotropics. Additionally, the ancestral knowledge of the peasant communities is of great importance for the biocultural memory of the region, however, the economic globalization and the lack of interest of the new generations has caused the loss of this traditional knowledge. In this way, the objective of the present study was to characterize the wild and cultivated plants used for feeding by peasant families of the municipality of Sabanalarga, Atlantico and to determine their possible relationship with the socioeconomic conditions of the participants. For this, a guided tour was carried out in 30 farms where plants were collected and identified for food use, in addition to this structured interviews were conducted with the owners in order to identify the socioeconomic variables. A total of 67 species associated to 77 common names were registered, distributed in 32 botanical families. The family with the greatest number of species was Fabaceae, followed by Anacardiaceae and Rutaceae, the most frequent species being Spondias purpurea (plum of castilla), Mangifera indica (mango) and Manihot esculenta (yucca). Regarding the socioeconomic variables, it was found that the number of people living on the farm, the participant's schooling and the history of the forest have a positive relationship with the wealth of edible plants, while factors such as distance from the farm to the head municipal, the size of the farm and the age of the participant have a negative relationship with wealth.