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April 16, 2009
So, what are folks able to harvest from their local bioregion to support their lives these days?
We are going wild with dandelions these days. Dandelion fritters a couple of days and soon some dandelion soda.
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Dandelions
— Apr 25, 2009
Dandelion greens are a nice kick in a mixed-greens salad. My great grandmother also used to make dandelion wine, which I hope to try this year. There is one bottle left from her so I figure if I'm going to partake of it I need to figure out how to make more!
Also goldenrod, grows wild here, in MN and I pass many fields of it on the way to 'the farm' so I read about making a tincture for healing with it. The farm is a place passed down through generations, 80 acres on the mississippi river and is currently not being used for farming. I of course intend to change that when it is in my hands :) So I am learning about the native plants and field/forest/river ecosystems in prep for that time of my life.
"The only thing constant in life is change" -François de la Rochefoucauld
free food
— May 20, 2009
What an exciting moment to come across wild growing, edible treasures through the day. I collect wild leeks, fiddleheads, coprinus comatus, polyporus squamosus, morchella esculenta, calvatia gigantae and many other edible plants and fungi I find around Toronto in parks, cemeteries and on lawns. It's great fun. Free food is awesome!
everything is everything here and now
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FL Cactus Fruit
— Nov 04, 2009
I have been hunting for Cactus fruit for the past few weeks and loving it. They are a little seedy but sweet when ripe. Saw Palmetto heart and the tiny bit at the base of each frond is edible as well. It takes a bit of energy expenditure to harvest the heart but the fronds come of with a good yank. I hear the berries are edible but not tasty. Any suggestions for other edibles in the FL Panhandle?
food from the forests
— Nov 04, 2009
we get so much food from the forest in the fall especially. this is such a great time. spring here as well.
I work at fungi perfecti so its all about the fungi... food or medicine.
being able to get your medicine from the forests around you is also just an amazing feeling. being able to go out and harvest certain medicines and fruit that are only available during specific seasonal times puts you so in sync, the passing of time is something your actively participating in its a feeling that many people have lost... and may never know.
we are one...
over watering and a lack of
— Nov 05, 2009
over watering and a lack of air flow will cause that. cut off the mold and dry it out, and start it over again.
best bet is to try and grow logs with plugs... you get a higher yield over time any way.
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