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Foraging in the Wild
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08/03/18 08:34 PM
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What are some things you may remember your grandparents or great-grandparents foraging for outdoors - or maybe you know someone now who does - for food?
Poke is one - some like the young, tender leaves
Blackberries, other fruits (muscadines, apple, pear, etc.)
Nuts
Mushrooms - as long as you know WTH you're searching for and eating
What else?
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Re: Foraging in the Wild
[Re: blade]
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08/03/18 09:36 PM
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Dandelion, cattail, American bueatyberry are all edible. Have you ever ate much of that?
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Re: Foraging in the Wild
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We had a guy in the deer club that used to gather white oak acorns and make bread from them. Seemed like a lot of trouble to me.
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Re: Foraging in the Wild
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08/03/18 10:15 PM
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blade
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Dandelion, cattail, American bueatyberry are all edible. Have you ever ate much of that? Decent amount.
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Re: Foraging in the Wild
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08/04/18 03:45 AM
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Granny used to make poke salat all the time. She also made blackberry cobbler. She used to take me on hikes in the woods and we would dig sasafrass roots and she would make a tea out of them.
Pawpaw used to make blackberry jelly and muscadine jelly both were awesome. I remember them cooking them up out back of the house.
They lived through the depression, so they knew more than most people how to live off the land and they weren't ones to let anything that was edible go to waste.
I've eaten a lot of persimmons when I was a kid. I've also eaten a lot of tree nuts.
I've always been curious about ramps, but I've never tried them.
I'm wanting to start growing ginsing once I get the cabin finished. I think my mountain side will be a great place to grow it. According to a book I read about Lookout Mountain ginsing (sang) used to grow all over that mountain. We already have a bunch of muscadines and I plan on transplanting some in the front yard and building an arbor for them to grow on.
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Re: Foraging in the Wild
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08/04/18 03:14 PM
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Most of the foraging my granny and paw paw did had medicinal purposes. Rabbit tobacco, ginseng, wild honey, yellow root, vetch, oxalis, several more I can't remember. They had a natural cure/remedy for tons of common ailments.
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Re: Foraging in the Wild
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Wasn't including fish and game in this. We know about hunting and fishing. Great stuff. I forgot about cattails and dandelion. Have had both. Cattails are kinda tasty. Most of the foraging my granny and paw paw did had medicinal purposes. Rabbit tobacco, ginseng, wild honey, yellow root, vetch, oxalis, several more I can't remember. They had a natural cure/remedy for tons of common ailments. Some of those I remember from reading the Foxfire books. Always loved those books. Maypops, blackberries , muscadines, wild plums I never knew the Maypops were edible.
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Re: Foraging in the Wild
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08/04/18 07:12 PM
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Huckleberries. They grow along the bluffs around here.
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Re: Foraging in the Wild
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Wild plums are awful tasty as are ripe persimmons. There aren't any wild plums on our farm anymore, but I do graze on persimmons in the fall.
Not for nourishment but chewing on the stem of a sweet gum leaf tastes sorta like peppermint.
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Re: Foraging in the Wild
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08/05/18 09:22 PM
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Do they have ramps in AL?
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Re: Foraging in the Wild
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I've never heard of ramps here in Alabama but have smelled and found them while on a camping trip in northeast Georgia. Doggone strong aroma.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
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