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1frozenhillbilly		#21	[-]
Posts: 167 (02/22/09 9:31 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	hmmm haven't had any wild food lately but i been eyballing the prarie dogs around where i'm moving to next week and will be waiting for the cat tails to send up new shoots, i may need everything i can gather for the next couple of months vegetarian? i thought green stuff was for growing meat!
canoist		#22	[-]
Posts: 4 (04/05/09 1:57 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I went out this weekend backpacking with my daughter, and we found a patch of day lilies just coming up - about 4" high. We dug up a cup of tubers, boiled them and added olive oil, pepper salt, etc. Good, but fibrous and a pain to clean each little nodule. I also have a few bottles of wild Black Raspberry wine left, hopefully enough to make it to mid summer and the next BRB season. Mmmm. Cattail shoots are just barely up, as are fiddleheads (in SE Michigan), but I'll give 'em another week before harvesting any.
Sedghammer		#23	[-]
Posts: 5 (04/05/09 10:54 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I ate garlic mustard greens in salad along with romaine and red leaf over spring break in chicago. They are everywhere and easy to identify. Just be sure that no one is spraying herbicide in the area you collect from as it is considered a rampant invasive (what hypocrites). Delicious, but some people find them too "bitter" for their palette. Most of the time they are the same people that just have 4 tastes - salty, sweet, bitter and sour. I'd argue there are many more, but few have the exposure necessary to acquire them. Domestic foods just don't have much zest. I also ate wintercress and dandelion greens, which seem to be consistently and conveniently located right next to each other. They are just a great trailside snack, but I suppose could also be collected in greater quantity. I just prefer them as fresh as possible. A cold snap has just hit the midwest and I'm worried we'll have a very late spring this year. I just got back from New Orleans and Tom Waits "I Wish I Were in New Orleans" has been ringing in my ears since. It's a botanist's dream down there. Last Edited By: Sedghammer 04/05/09 11:00 PM. Edited 1 times.
Sedghammer		#24	[-]
Posts: 11 (04/26/09 8:42 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	For those in central wisconsin, wild leek and trout lilies are up now. Happy foraging!
Haines		#25	[-]
Posts: 880 (04/27/09 7:00 AM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Sedgehammer, The same here in New England! We have been eating stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) shoots, dame's-rocket (Hesperis matronalis) leaves, Japaneese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) shoots, trout-lily (Erythronium americanum) leaves/bulbs, and lots of other great spring plants. Stinging nettle is among my favorites and is high in vitamins A and C and extremely high in protein (for a plant). Haines
Quest for fire		#26	[-]
Posts: 1992 (04/27/09 3:27 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Only some rosehips still on the bush from last year. The best I have ever tasted with no exceptions. Kevin Does maple syrup count?
Leigh		#27	[-]
Posts: 21 (06/06/09 2:54 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Well, I am jealous. I live in the middle of town and almost everywhere, people spray their lawns with herbicides/fungicides. So no wild greens for me! But I'm looking forward to pecans in the fall... the neighborhood is wrapped up in big old pecan trees, too many even for the damned squirrels to eat all of them. Quite a bit of fruit too, peach trees no one seems to want-ripe from June through August, some pears, lots of apples if I can manage to catch the homeowners this year-backyard trees... also, a bunch of crab apple trees at the apartment complex where I used to live. Nobody pays the slightest attention to them. My biggest drawback is not having the necessary stuff to do any canning, and not having a small deep freezer. Something I hope to have the money to fix this fall. Leigh Last Edited By: Leigh 06/06/09 2:56 AM. Edited 1 times.
Rocks in Head		#28	[-]
Posts: 357 (06/06/09 11:15 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Yesterday momma wasnt home so I was in charge of dinner. marinated beef, bacon, ookow, broccoli, zuccine, and nettles. We had some ookow bulbs I had dug up earlier and cut some nettles. They are getting a bit big but the young leaves are fine. So on our bbq, I fried up some bacon with the ookow bulb slices, than added some marinated meat. after a bit, I added the broccoli, than the zukes and nettles, closed the foil up and let them steam, voila! yum, yum. Stinkin good stuff. the kids loved it.
Hillbilly NC		#29	[-]
Posts: 2823 (06/10/09 6:57 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Serviceberries and wild strawberries are getting ripe here now-two of my favorites. Save the Cro-Magnons
Metalking00		#30	[-]
Posts: 87 (06/10/09 12:03 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	We've got a ton of blackberries here. I collect somewhere around 2 pounds a day. Im really excited for all of the fruit trees to start ripening. Over summer theres gonna be an explosion of figs, peaches, nectarines, apples, guavas and elderberries. Ive also got my eye on these little tiny strawberry guys that a swedish friend of mine pointed out. They're about the size of your pinky nail and are incredibly sweet. Ive also been going out spearfishing a couple times a week, so the freezer is well stocked with various fish. Ive had my eye on the rabbits around here, but many of them still look pretty small. Life has meaning only in the struggle Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods So let us celebrate the struggle
Hillbilly NC		#31	[-]
Posts: 2828 (06/11/09 3:51 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Been eating a lot of catfish too, and still getting deer and wild hog meat from the freezer. The groundhogs are starting to fatten up now, I see barbecued whistlepig in the near future. We've gotten plenty of rain this year, the summer mushrooms should start popping up soon. Save the Cro-Magnons
BillOregon		#32	[-]
Posts: 857 (06/11/09 6:40 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm such a laggard. A few morels with the steaks is all I can think of. Better go check the cattails!
Rocks in Head		#33	[-]
Posts: 371 (06/11/09 12:11 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The cattails are just right for collecting the heads and the pollen here in the Rosuburg area. Hopefully, this Saturday we'll be making a trip to a local lake to collect some. Boiled heads with butter, and pollen to mix with the acorn flour bisquits. Oh, yeah!
Riowolf		#34	[-]
Posts: 1 (06/18/09 5:15 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Bleh, I live in a city now... The one park is to tame to find much, but I did enjoy a nice cup of Pineapple weed tea with honey the other day. Missing my hometown now, with far more wilder areas, I can do more 'field work' so to speak Books are great, but learning by doing is best! I'm glad I've found this forum! Its so nice to see so many like-minded people! Most people I know in real life, for instance, would likely be disgusted by the fact that I have a deer hide in my freezer waiting to be turned into rawide, lol!

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