>>19853740It's a highly local thing that mostly has to do with the plants in your area. I have no idea the plants in your area.
I'll say this- all the people who I thought were actually capable of it were not "survivalists" or "bushcrafters" they were just plant lovers. Bushcrafters try to memorize plants from a book and that's almost impossible to do. But if you are just fascinated with them, you see each one all the time in each season. You see what likes to grow with what. You see where they like to grow etc. How the weather that season affects them.
Anyways, to answer your question once you hit about April, where I live the woods are going to be absolutely full of really high quality things. I mean just starting with fruits you're going to hit dew berry first, then mayhaw, black berry, wild plum, all the various wild vaccinium and blueberries, maybe a few serviceberries etc. wild grape, sugar berry, gopher apple, maypops, crabapple, maybe find some red mulberries here or there.
Not to mention the greens that are going to be coming in starting in early spring with maybe like young poke leaves being the earliest together with maybe garlic mustard etc. Then you've got all the wild spinaches, dandelions, wood sorrel, purslane, etc etc. The you've got all the root and stalk plants, thistles, cat tails, potato vine, all very easy to ID.
Spring-Summer isn't the problem it's once you hit about October through now that is the problem. It's going to be critical that you collect alot of hard mast during this time. Pecan will be your main lifeline. Then maybe swamp chestnut oak, hickory, any white oak acorn really. Some walnuts if lucky. All that stuff is going to have to last you from December to March. You'll get a good relief in the form of persimmons in November but that won't last long. So winter you have to save up those nuts and try to maybe supplement it with some animals or birds I think.
I think eating is not the issue. Infection is.
