Can you live off the land? A shed will probably get too cold overnight and too hot during the day. Like so many in the same family the starchy rhizome of the Calla palustris is laced with calcium oxalate crystals…, Brasenia schreberi: Palatable Pond Weed This plant is included here in case 1) society falls apart; 2) You live in Georgia or Florida and need starch…, Antigonon leptopus: Creeping Cuisine Do you have or know of a herb book that can teach me about the herbs and what they are used for? We all liked them – our young kids ate them like candy. Drop by the Wax Myrtle tree. The Chinese Box-Orange is one of my botanical mysteries. Many years ago a social acquaintance upon learning I ate weeds said she and her mother had eaten tulip bulbs. From Central American north to Arizona east to Florida then up the…, Bitter Melon, Bitter Gourd, Balsam Pear: Momordica Charantia Issue 159: Distance and Elevation, Paper Mulberry, Red Mulberry, Basswood, False Hawk’s Beard, Upcoming Foraging Classes, Green Deane Forum, Botany Builder #26, Issue 158: Pineapple Guava, the Tallow Plum, where to look for edible plants, upcoming foraging classes. It likes truly tropical climes and I am on the subtropical/temperate line. Mules can be very stubborn. Raspberries were the first wild fruit I noticed on my own and ate as a kid. The name of my website is “Eat The Weeds (and other things too. It’s called the Christmasberry even though it fruits in April, and while it is one of several “Christmas Berries”…, Cyperus esculentus, C. rotundus: Serious Sedges I debated a long time whether to include Black Medic as an edible. Wild lettuce is not as tame as garden lettuce. 8 large seed £ There is general agreement…, Thespesia populnea: Coastal Cuisine It can get someone hurt. And…. You won’t find it in field guides on edible…. taking 25 poke berries 4 times a day and kept that dosage steady. No one knows how many species of edible plants there are in the world, or in North America. Nopalea Cochenillifera: Cactus Cuisine Should the civilized world come to an end and you have a hankering for a stout beer you’re in luck: You can make one…, Blueberrying was a family tradition. Mulberries, Magnolia Vinegar, Surinam Cherries, What Do You See 10, answer to What Do You See 09, Upcoming Foraging classes, Book Review: Foraging With Kids, DVDs. Of course somewhere back along…, I was asked to write a short piece for a survivalist blog on getting started in foraging: I have a confession to make: When I was a kid I had a miniature corn cob pipe. Professor Julia Morton, the grand dame of toxic and edible plants in Florida, had this to say about the Jumbie…. That said, I know many survivalists. They are the best squash I have ever grown and in West Wales wet summer of 2012 I still had a huge crop that is storing well and cooking even better." This blog all started with hot dog relish. That…, Usnea: Likable LichenUSNEA is not an international committee. The special thing about this variety is that as well as being early enough for Halloween, it tastes really good - ideal for roasting and pies as well as soups. Now why do a silly thing like that? Among the edible wild plants on this site are a few escaped fruit trees and ornamentals that have become naturalized.…, Sugarberries are Hackberries with a Southern Accent It tastes very much like spinach. It takes an English sentence and breaks it into words to determine if it is a phrase or a clause. What is really nice is that the plants themselves don't actually take up that much space, and the squash have a good flavour, so you do get to eat them as well. thanks for your help!! Regardless of your taste in music, music is more than organized sound. Here we are a couple of months later, scooping out the Stronger brews are used in herbal medicine. This is an very nice, widely adapted, ultra-early yellow hubbard squash for short-season areas. Sorting Out Species We could always…, Thistle: Touch me not, but add butter. Nearly everyone knows crickets are edible — cooked — but few ever mention the ugliest of them all, the mole cricket. If I were ever to invent a torture it would be dragging someone naked through a field of sandspurs. I don’t think it is a coincidence that “ho ho ho bellies and Pyracantha jelly jiggle into the season just before…. 18 and 25 August, no newsletters as Green Deane was on vacation hiking in the Carolinas. The growing tip is dead, bent or otherwise…, Papaya comes from the grocery store, unless you live where it seldom freezes. Nephrolepis cordifolia: Edible Watery Tubers Sargassum: Not Just for Breakfast Any More I had hiked for a few miles already and he had just entered the trail. He said he would and I carried him a grocery bag full of fresh berries the next day, and instructed him to start with 10 berries 4 times per day and if no diarrhea the next day, increase a couple of berries each day until he was taking 25 each time, 4 times a day. Shaped like a green Turks Turban squash, with a huge 'button' on the bottom, this ancient variety is from the native Ute people who lived Colorado from AD 1300 to 1881. Melitotus: Condiment to Tea to Blood Thinner When I told Dr. James A. Duke (after his lecture at a folk medicine festival, where he was asked about a folk herbal remedy for arthritis) that poke berries are as good a remedy as you would find anywhere, the attendee who had asked the question, who was also into folk medicine commented that she always thought they were poison. Identifying the Simpson Stopper. Foraging should never begin without the guidance and approval of a local plant specialist. Approximately 15 years after I started taking them, heard in a physiology document.write(roc_rdd_price_SQNG); Pacific Giant FREE GIANT PUMPKIN COMPETITION Get Your Annual Vaccinium Every Year great source of info–thanks! . I had a yard of non-edible ferns. It was bred by the Massachusetts Ag. It was the summer of 1987 in…, Pellitory: Parietaria is a Whiz Taking a Bee Hive Home, and The Green Deane Forum. If you have a warm back yard, think twice before you plant a Moringa tree. Strain on the Attention.––This, too, is an exercise children delight in, but, as it involves some. No food pretended to be something it…. Grazie . It was the prime ice cream of choice when I was young.…. #05 and the answers to #04, looking for a travel trailer and holding classes in west Florida and beyond. Google Arthur Haines and or Ancestral Plants on facebook. It’s called the Camel Foot Tree, the Cow Foot Tree, the Mountain Ebony Tree, the Orchid Tree, and the Hong Kong Orchid Tree. I know it is edible but I don’t know how… But I may still…. She calls the doctor sir Peter Teazle and picks buttercups off the quilt. Goji berries, Plantagos, Black Medic, Green Deane Forum, Earthskills 2015, Florida Herbal Conference 2015, and Chain of Contamination. Let me understand basicly you take a 1/2 cup of fresh cider and swap it with a 1/2 cup of starter. Hi Green Deane, I live in Northern part of Maine. The squirrels are in hog heaven, if you’ll pardon the menagerie metaphor. We managed to break the wheelbarrow in the process but did get it into the boot of the car and then used a saw to cut it into quarters back at home. any ideas about why that might be? My Taiwanese friend liked to grow scallions in a postage stamp garden in her back…, After the Boston Tea Party of 1773 the colonists had only one good alternative: Goldenrod tea, and not just any Goldenrod,…, Covered with a multitude of small hooks, Goosegrass, Galium…. 12 seed £ document.write(roc_rdd_price_SQLU); A large, ribbed blue squash first introduced in the 1932 Arthur Yates & Co Seed Catalogue. When the soil is good, it can be…, Anredera cordifolia: Pest or Food Crop? Seriously doubt that my diluents (alcohol or AC vinegar) differentiates between contents of the berry and the seeds contained in them either and I take 1 tsp. Any plant called “strawberry” other than a strawberry is doomed. Natal Plum: Incredible Edible Landscaping, A good reputation is hard to maintain when your closest relative has a reputation for killing people. When the "Execute p1" button is clicked the javascript function p1 is executed. Considered by many to be one of the best eating squashes ever, this I froze about 50 quarts or more and made lots of poke stalk (young shoots) pickles, using a dill pickle recipe. However…. I raided a particular field…, For the second time recently I was reminded of development. It is not unusual for him to be working on a Stradivarius or a…. 29 October 2013: No newsletter published that date. It’s three different species, but that should tell you something.…, IS WILD TARO IN FLORIDA EDIBLE? I am often asked about herbal medicine. We met by accident in the woods. started with 5 berries (unseeded) washed down with water, 4 times per day. January 19, 2021. Thistles, you’re either going to love ’em or hate em. What shall we call this little member of the Brassica family? Smooth, delicious orange flesh, perfect for baking, frying and making pies. 7 October 2015 no  newsletter published because site had to be backed up because of hackers. As popular as they are, Maypops get stepped on a lot, but that doesn’t keep them down. 31 December 2013: No newsletter published that date. #4- Do you leave it out for any length of time after feeding it the 1/2 cup of cider and or sugar?#5-Is it airtight in storage?#6-If you are not using it for a while do you take some out and throw it away and put some fresh cider and or sugar in the starter? A medium sized pumpkin - the fruit average about 2kg / 4lb , and a really nice colour - orange with a slight netting. The original seed was given to a Mr J M Ives in 1831 by a friend, so we can see that it has stood the test of time well. document.write(roc_rdd_stock_SQBH); Boston Squash Do have a go - read the seedsaving instructions we provide with every order, and also on this site. The B&W picture is from a Christmas long ago. Buttercups: Buttercups are usually considered not edible. The state tree of Florida isn’t a tree, but it is a weed of many edible parts. The daylily, a standard plant in foraging for a century or more, has become too much of a good thing and now presents a significan…, During nearly every class I have students smell three or four plants — depending upon the season — and I ask them what common…, Murdannia nudiflora: Tiny Dayflower Kin I was drinking “Mimosas” — orange juice and champagne — about 20 years before I discovered the Mimosa tree was…. Urena Lobata: Cash crop to noxious weed It also has thorns… Really bad thorns. Gorse has edible flowers. Ardisias: Berries on the cusp of edible I also told him to eat plenty of asparagas. 12 seed £document.write(roc_rdd_price_SQBO); Burgess Vine Buttercup The Amapola is on the go, but unlike the “walking” mangrove, the Amapola crawls. Issue 169: Are all Portulacas edible? Only one northern county in the state reports having wild strawberries. The Water Shield is edible. Many people have tried to make poke weed (Phytolacca americana) a green…, hi deane! No newsletter published that date. It’s a question our distant ancestors never asked because pots and pans didn’t…, Zamia Floridana: Making Toxins Edible produces more flesh per fruit. I’ve made a lot of beer and…. But, it is something foragers should think about. Armadillo Cuisine: Cooking a Hoover Hog : Issue 175: 18 edibles along the Seminole-Wekiva Trial, Foraging Class Schedule, and the Green Deane Forum. And in others…, Guapira discolor: A Blolly by Golly Issue 168: Paper Mulberries, Pindo Palm, Yaupon Holly, The Timucua, Pawpaws, plant books, upcoming foraging classes, the Green Deane Forum. The questions are, are they endangered or not, and which…, It looks like garden purslane on steriods growing in sand. It was back in the last century. Sometimes a toxic plant can give even an experienced forager reason to pause. The Melothria pendula is a little cucumber with a big reputation. Harvest in autumn I don’t know how it got there but it…, Cichorium intybus: Burned to a Crisp One wouldn’t think wild yams would be hard to sort out. Those three pollinate the…, Alternanthera philoxeroides: Exotic Munch, If you have alligators you have alligator weed. Fragaria don’t like Florida. If I listed this edible under its botanical name few would find it. That’s why the vast majority of them are unpalatable or lethal. "Just had to let you know that I cooked one of my Thelma Sanders squash to serve with the Boxing Day dinner and everyone remarked on the delicious flavour and one squash was enough to serve 5 easily. Upcoming Foraging Classes, What Do You See #20. The Sabal palmetto, actually an overgrown…. I will make a large argument against it, and a small argument for it. Once you cook your first solar meal, you’re hooked. If the Crepis fits….wear….ah…eat it, Crepis japonica gets no respect. Wild Apples are one of the most common over-looked foraging foods. Hyacinth Bean: Purple Protein, and More But, whether…. Bring inside and store in the warm for 10 days for them £document.write(roc_rdd_price_SQHO); Waltham Butternut A man had a mule sit down under a load. We will immediately refund or replace if you are in any way less than delighted with them, even including the flavour of the resulting crop! Mole Crickets: Digging Your Lunch I saw Gary Vickerson eat an earthworm I found near a checkerberry plant. Frozen cranberries are just as sour as fresh ones. Would like to comment on pokeweed and its berries toxicity. Salsola kali: Noxious Weed, Nibble & Green Oct 7and 14 no newsletter because Green Deane attended an out-of-state memorial service. In one area of its native range — Israel — it’s endangered becauses of dwindling habitat. Be brave when you collect cactus. All rights reserved. I really…, Cymbopogon citratus: A Real Lemon You will thoroughly enjoy tea made by Florida’s native pennyroyal, or maybe even a Mint Julep Floridana. Like most hubbards, it has a very hard skin, which means that they keep exceptionally well. Then it is another wild edible, naturalized in…, Broussonetia papyrifera: Paper Chase Chenopodium album: Getting Goosed! The Tropical Chestnut, the Eastern Redbud, Miner’s Lettuce, Upcoming Foraging Classes, What do You See #09, answers to What Do You See 08, Book Review: Guide To Wild Foods And Useful Plants, DVDs, Barbie…. A hubbard type, with a hard skin (so it stores well) and has a really good flavour. Domestic ducks tend to eat duckweed, wild ones don’t.…, Just about anyone who has spent anytime in a warm climate will some day find on a sidewalk a black seed pod that looks like a human…, Cooking with Earthworms In 1900 food was … well… food, and real. As some authors state, only kids eat the fruit, lots of seed,…. (Though of course there are other options for the experts And in it I smoked dried burdock leaf… I…. Juneberries are as American as apple pie. Let me give you consistent example. Comments or questions about this site, or for permission to use photos and information. Golf courses revisited, rain brings the mushrooms, spring greens are putting on, got an article for the newsletter? to make pumpkin pie. even after the leaves start to die down, unless there is danger of frost. Then transfer to smaller bottles and referidgerator plastic not glass, correct? Here’s what you’re looking for: A palm or plametto that is dying. This variety is a great choice for cooler or shorter season areas of the UK. The White Indigo Berry is not high on the food list. To be…, Firethorn: Pyracantha Coccinea As a professional musician I…, Of all the “survival” skills foraging is probably the most difficult to learn, or certainly the one that takes the most time and personal fortitude. This storage temperature is important to get right - check with a thermometer - too cold and they will rot. Save some in storage as they become noticably sweeter after the New Year. If you google “Osage Orange” or “Maclura pomifera” (mak-LOOR-uh pom-EE-fer-uh…, Rhynchophorus cruentatus: Raw or Fried? 10 seed £ You can also Does it cost less than conventional methods? Cayra coffee, or Hickory Java When ever I go into the woods, or on water, I am…, Just as it is important to know what to eat, it’s as important to know what not to eat, or if you do, how to do it…, Lycoperdon perlatum: Edible Puffballs Many books have been written about cast iron cookware. Of course, I think eating them is the sensible…, Cordyline fruticosa: Food, Foliage, Booze The cartoon strip BC once had its peg-leg poet write: “The bravest man I ever saw was the first one to eat an oyster raw.”, Spiderwort, Marigolds, Rosemary, Smartweed, Pineapple Weed, Chamomile, False Roselle, Lavender, Forsythia, Borage, Apple, Fuchsia, Sweet Goldenrod, Basil, Gorse, Bauhinia, Eastern Redbud, Angelica, Honeysuckle, Eastern Coral Bean Matricaria matricarioides for Your Tea & Salad In fact, it is famine food, but, willow can also cure…, On the shortest day of the year one should take a long look around. Fucus vesiculosus: Edible Bladderwrack British author Ray Mears must have been thinking of the Hornbeam when he said a forager mustn’t pass up food no matter how…, Monarda Punctata: Bergamot’s Bud So far, it has made 7 batches of soup, 6 pumpkin pies and a pumpkin and parsnip casserole = delicious! " Cabbage Palm, Sabal Palmetto (4) Heart of Palm and Controversy The state tree of Florida isn’t a tree, but it is a weed of many edible parts. I was wondering if you had a guide book or a list of edible plants that can be grown here? But membership costs just one penny per annum. There is only one rule you have to remember: When it comes to land snails, land slugs, and fresh water mollusks you must…, No, that is not a “Walking stick” insect. It’s Thanksgiving, 2007, in central Florida and I…, Like a Suriname Cherry, you’ll either find the Seven Year Apple edible or disgusting. The Traveler’s Palm is reportedly known for providing wayfarers water, but it also has some food to offer as well. They have a very dry dense yellow flesh, and keep well overwinter. I took the picture directly above while out bicycling on a Christmas Day, 2008. Three of the pictures below are are not of the same Ipomoea. The question is to boil or not to boil. The Real Seed Catalogue is produced by The Real Seed Collection Ltd ~ Company No 5924934 ~ VAT No 841181938 ~ DEFRA registered Seed Merchant No 7289 ~. A call came in … I…, Stachys Floridana, Culinary Pretender One of the first things my uncle’s second wife said to me when I moved from Maine to Florida was “they have strawberri…, Glorifying Morning Glories advena. When I was making a video last week I saw a beautiful growth of watercress,…, Pyrrhopappus, Hypochoeris: Dandelion Impostors then airlock in warm place for a week or so. Extension Service in the 1960's Chicory was not a common plant where I grew up or where I live. Anyone who forages will eventually collect a few blackberries, and thorns. I’m sure my wild-looking…. It is a very prolific and productive pumpkin, with a particularly good flavour. ~ We have sent out over 104,000 sets of free home seed-saving instructions!~. As foragers we are indebted to past writers and at the same time constrained by them. Next,…, Commelina diffusa: What a day for a dayflower If you store it long term to make wine do you leave it in the glass jar with the balloon or do you seal up the jug, or store them in plastic bottles out of the fridge?Thank you very much I am so excited, but don’t want to waste or get sick….. where can I find the apple cider starter video? Hay may be for horses, but clover is for people…well…. I have been taking them for 30 to seed. If I were going to rely on scorpions in Florida for sustenance, I would starve to death. It only took me about a dozen…, The “Cheeky Yam, or Yam on the Lamb Artificial grass is not grass. I love cast netting. The first time you eat an acorn it makes you wonder what the squirrels are going nuts about. It was Red Root Tea until the Boston Tea Party. Our Seed Club:Due to really daft seed laws, many of our fantastic vegetable seeds can only be supplied to members of our Seed Club, because they are not on the EU-approved list of permitted vegetable varieties! Tilia americana: Forest Fast Food It’s not smart or nice to lie about plants. The United States almost won WWII with cattails. It is a good big hubbard, with beautiful yellow-orange skin. The fruit is quite distinct, a…, Stachytarpheta jamaicensis: Near Beer heal. But on second thought, the birds plant a lot of our wild foraging plants by depositing them back on the earth after it passes through their GI tracts, so this is one question you will have to decide for yourself. The huge glowing fruits are covered with small bump; they start out deep orange and later ripen to a redder colour. Coco-plums are three quarters patriotic: They can be red, white, or blue ( and yellow. It is one…, As many of you already know I am highly critical of the Internet as a source of information on foraging. I grew up in 50-below zero Maine and we had bamboo in front of the house for decades. Warm regards from Capo D’Orlando. Humour her till it’s over. Maple Walnut Ice Cream. I heard the name as an edible for many years and saw the plant often but never…, Hercules’ Club: Zanthoxylum Clava-Herculis, I sometimes feel sorry for my neighbors, who have lawns of decapitated grass. document.write(roc_rdd_price_SQSI); In the 1950's this nice green squash was passed to a woman called Anna Swartz by a friend. almost. Every spring when the snow had finally melted we’d go through the low Maine…. Sometimes botanists go a little too far, or at least Carl Linnaeus did when he named a particular vine Paederia…, Are Slugs edible? That word has been in my mailbox lately, sprinkled through like spice on an entree. For a tropical plant, the Balloon Vine can take cold weather, growing from west Texas north to Montana, Florida…, Bambusa It’s not heavenly nor is it a bamboo, but Heavenly Bamboo is an edible, barely. I was in Mead Gardens in Winter…. The Saffron Plum is not yellow or a plum, that is, it is not a Prunus. With a past that perhaps goes back to Roman times it became in the Christian era All Hallows…. And it grows all over the local beach, and other beaches…, Food is where the water is, be it fresh or salt, and one of the waterway foods of North America is Sea Rocket. Fortunately…, There are less Christmas parties this year than in the past, with economic conditions reducing the usual yuletide cheer. The very first Hawthorn I ever saw — and the only one I knew for quite a while — grew on the other side of the dirt…, It was a zig and a zag for me. The answer depends on how far off the description is: You might have the wrong plant. I just didn’t know which one. 29 April 2014: Fifth Tuesday of the month. What…. It’s one of those practices of civilization that plants with little flavor or calories — lettuce for example — are…, Lepidium Virginicum: Bottlebrush Peppergrass, There are two ways of thinking about peppergrass, either as a real neat wild treat, or an obnoxious, noxious…. Oddly it showed up in the crook of one elbow,…, Panicum maximum and then some Not on flavor. It likes to hid…. Pontederia cordata: In a PR Pickerel Expatica is the international community’s online home away from home. Our Unique Structure: Because we have no shareholders. Many species and a few family of plants sit on the cusp of edible, non-edible, among them the Annonas, tropicals…, Malus sieversii, Hard-Core Apples Water hyacinths can demonstrate that. One of the reasons why Eat The Weeds exists is to advocate eating the wild foods around you but also to be another voice in the growing chorus that is…, If you have any comments or suggestions please send them to [email protected]. One of my uncles had the type of personality that where ever he hung his hat, that was home. It was an annual family ritual. “Wild Taro.” My research to date (fall, 2011), Is the wild taro in Florida edible? This is Green Deane being interview for the local PBS station for Thanksgiving, 2009. They tend…, The Locusberry rises to the occasion. 12 August 2014: No newsletter, Green Deane hiking in the Carolinas. “Music to the teeth” is what the Malaysians call them.Americans may not eat jellyfish, but the….