How many have foraged for food? As a child, I was taught to forage for berries, wild onions, ramps, and mushrooms, to name a few. It is amazing how many skills of the past we have lost. I learned to hunt and fish and even to raise live stock.
I forage in the kitchen.
Dandelions, the entire plant is edible
I have.Have you tried the root?
Yes, you can boil it for tea, or slow roast and eat plain. It’s kind of bitter, but edible. My opinion radishes taste worse.Have you tried the root?
I have.
Yes, you can boil it for tea, or slow roast and eat plain. It’s kind of bitter, but edible. My opinion radishes taste worse.
Leaves and young flowers for salads.
Just as a precaution I would seriously refrain from harvesting any from your lawn or local parks. So many chemicals applied I doubt they would be safe for consumption.
Euell Gibbons probably belongs in the 70's thread (" . . . many parts are edible.")
I've done a lot of wilderness travel, but almost no foraging along the way. The thing about foraging is calories. There is a fair amount of nutrients up for grabs in the wild but, with a few exceptions, it takes more calories to forage than the activity yields as well as considerable time. The main exceptions are nuts, only available for a short time in the autumn (in competition with squirrels and bugs), and hunting/fishing which probably don't count as foraging. Bugs/worms are also high nutrition, but most of us would probably hesitate to go there (I'm sure I passed enough mormon crickets while hiking the Oregon Trail a couple of years ago to keep me well fed, but nope).
It gets a lot easier when you learn what to look for, where and when - I never got beyond the basics.
I knwo added hunting. I will explain why I started the focus on foraging. A friend recently said he did not know why we send grain to countries for free. The same person said we should just provide it to our own people who are impoverished. The conversation quickly moved to the face that post Americans know longer know how to use whole grains, hunt, farm, or forage.@cwbullet mentioned learning to hunt and fish, but the main issue he asked about was foraging, which I understand to mostly be about gathering plants to eat. So I have a related question I hope is not off-topic. How many have hunted or trapped and eaten “small game”, and what’s it like? I have a .22 rifle and different forums I’ve visited about setting up and customizing 22s always have number of people who mention setting up for plinking and “small game”, which I take to mean critters, like squirrels and rabbits. I know people do shoot and eat squirrels and rabbits and some other small animals. I’ve never done it, but I would try some if offered. I just don’t think of this as something people do a lot, at least not where I live, so I wonder if people are talking more about killing pests and varmints, or if there are more small game hunters than I imagined. Have you hunted or trapped small game and eaten it, and how was it?
Forage samples at Costco
The modern HOA is a great example of this. Most places would fine you for planting edible perennials in your own front yard, can you imagine replacing the front yard with wheat or corn. We live in the country on purpose, and I don’t understand how people deal with cities at all.I knwo added hunting. I will explain why I started the focus on foraging. A friend recently said he did not know why we send grain to countries for free. The same person said we should just provide it to our own people who are impoverished. The conversation quickly moved to the face that post Americans know longer know how to use whole grains, hunt, farm, or forage.
I do think that we could do a lot to teach children the basics even if they live is cities. Learning how it is done can teach you a level of respect for those that do it. It is hard work.
I don't claim to be a hunter, but I have caught and tried a number of critters. Rabbit it pretty good. Duck is greasy oven roasted, but really good smoked. Frog legs are good fried or grilled. I found snapping turtle, rattlesnake and ground hog to be edible, but tough. I don't think I would seek them out again.Have you hunted or trapped small game and eaten it, and how was it?
Have you hunted or trapped small game and eaten it, and how was it?
Concur. 23 acres and loving it.The modern HOA is a great example of this. Most places would fine you for planting edible perennials in your own front yard, can you imagine replacing the front yard with wheat or corn. We live in the country on purpose, and I don’t understand how people deal with cities at all.
Yeah, there are not a lot of calories available to forage. Not a lot of starches and fats free for the picking that are not already going to be claimed by wildlife.
@cwbullet mentioned learning to hunt and fish, but the main issue he asked about was foraging, which I understand to mostly be about gathering plants to eat. So I have a related question I hope is not off-topic. How many have hunted or trapped and eaten “small game”, and what’s it like? I have a .22 rifle and different forums I’ve visited about setting up and customizing 22s always have number of people who mention setting up for plinking and “small game”, which I take to mean critters, like squirrels and rabbits. I know people do shoot and eat squirrels and rabbits and some other small animals. I’ve never done it, but I would try some if offered. I just don’t think of this as something people do a lot, at least not where I live, so I wonder if people are talking more about killing pests and varmints, or if there are more small game hunters than I imagined. Have you hunted or trapped small game and eaten it, and how was it?
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