Wild Wood Weeds, Forage, etc.

[hamishf]

Pics later, maybe more than one. Easy as it is to pull up "interenet imageries" sometimes they're all wrong and sometimes yer bro has the scoop without busting keys and guessing.

I REALLY want to learn more local fungi (of course there are dozens and some big ones), but going straight from the books is always scary when liver damage may be a consequence. Rowdy may be my guide there. Morels are darn nearly fool-proof. And yeah, I know the "free-range-psyllis" when i see them. I'm talking chow!

time to fab up something now though.

Whenever I think about looking for wild mushrooms, I think about this incident and it cures me of the notion.

Nicholas Evans: 'I wanted to die. It was so grim’ - Telegraph

[Jeffrey Borisch]

Now what's that clover looking stuff that's purple on the underleaf and tarty? anybuddy?

Wood Sorrel maybe?

[steve garro]

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Fish ain't meat.
Tough 1st two days, then pretty damn good, really.
- Garro.

[Dorman]

Talk to me about cattails. What part do you eat and how do you prepare it?

[Chris Kane]

Talk to me about cattails. What part do you eat and how do you prepare it?

If I remember correctly you eat the starchy bits sortof the root to the shoot. I tried it once raw, but didn't care for the intense starchiness of it. I've heard of it being roasted and ground for flour, but have not tried that myself.

[Chris Kane]

Some of my favorites wildcrafted foods are stinging nettles, lambs quarters, wild carrot (queen anne's lace) root, burdock root, dandelion greens, acorns, mallow berries, miner's lettuce, purslane...

Stinging nettle harvest mid-bike ride last Spring:
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[steve garro]

Talk to me about cattails. What part do you eat and how do you prepare it?

The white base of the plant - it's like a celery or a bamboo shoot.
- Garro.

[WadePatton]

Talk to me about cattails. What part do you eat and how do you prepare it?

Root/shoots and fluffy part can be eaten too. I've seen more than one reference, but have no direct experience.

goes best with duck, frogs, and turtle!

[steve garro]

Root/shoots and fluffy part can be eaten too. I've seen more than one reference, but have no direct experience.

goes best with duck, frogs, and turtle!

And I have heard of eating the "green" cattails themselves.
Cattail pollen is really important in Navajo medicine, as are many pollens, esp. corn - I used to go sell hand harvested corn pollen with my Navajo grandma at the Central Navajo Nation Fair, it was $5 a teaspoon in the beginning of the 80's.

Here we go:
The incredible cattail: The super Wal-Mart of the swamp by Kevin F. Duffy
- Garro.

[steve garro]

Shit, forgot all the stuff we have in the yard - Monarda (Wild Oregano) rose hips, gooseberries and golden currant.
- Garro.

[steve garro]

Bumper crop of fiddleheads for a few days, and too many mulberries to even count.
- Garro.

[ericpmoss]

I should have put this here...

[ides1056]

just an fyi re ramps- cut the leaves off, and leave the bulb

people just yank the whole thing- I see them at Whole Foods, and it pisses me off

as for black walnuts, get a pig from a local breeder and feed to them for local jambon

[guido]

Bulb of the ramp does taste wonderful though... I eat all but the roots...

[ides1056]

Thing about ramps is how profoundly you stink for days after eating. Great chick repellent.

[guido]

Thing about ramps is how profoundly you stink for days after eating. Great chick repellent.

Unless you eat them with your chick...

[ides1056]

But I am right; I mean, garlic doesn't begin to smell as much, no?

[guido]

But I am right; I mean, garlic doesn't begin to smell as much, no?

Well maybe we just like the smell? Like the opposite of some people having cilantro taste like soap? We just really like alliums. We grow garlic, onions, leeks, chinese chives and classic chives in our garden each year. Ramps really a treasured sign of spring... Maybe I should make soup with the roots...

[ides1056]

Alliums are a staple.