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
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
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Fish ain't meat.
Tough 1st two days, then pretty damn good, really.
- Garro.
Steve Garro, Coconino Cycles.
Frames & Bicycles built to measure and Custom wheels
Hecho en Flagstaff, Arizona desde 2003
www.coconinocycles.com
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Talk to me about cattails. What part do you eat and how do you prepare it?
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, Coconino Cycles.
Frames & Bicycles built to measure and Custom wheels
Hecho en Flagstaff, Arizona desde 2003
www.coconinocycles.com
www.coconinocycles.blogspot.com
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, Coconino Cycles.
Frames & Bicycles built to measure and Custom wheels
Hecho en Flagstaff, Arizona desde 2003
www.coconinocycles.com
www.coconinocycles.blogspot.com
Shit, forgot all the stuff we have in the yard - Monarda (Wild Oregano) rose hips, gooseberries and golden currant.
- Garro.
Steve Garro, Coconino Cycles.
Frames & Bicycles built to measure and Custom wheels
Hecho en Flagstaff, Arizona desde 2003
www.coconinocycles.com
www.coconinocycles.blogspot.com
Bumper crop of fiddleheads for a few days, and too many mulberries to even count.
- Garro.
Steve Garro, Coconino Cycles.
Frames & Bicycles built to measure and Custom wheels
Hecho en Flagstaff, Arizona desde 2003
www.coconinocycles.com
www.coconinocycles.blogspot.com
I should have put this here...
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
Bulb of the ramp does taste wonderful though... I eat all but the roots...
Guy Washburn
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“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
– Mary Oliver
Thing about ramps is how profoundly you stink for days after eating. Great chick repellent.
Guy Washburn
Photography > www.guywashburn.com
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
– Mary Oliver
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...
Guy Washburn
Photography > www.guywashburn.com
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
– Mary Oliver
Alliums are a staple.
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