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Anonymous Wed 26 Apr 2023 10:33:05 No.2572897 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2572933 >>2575359 >>2575374 >>2575926 >>2575999

Best resource to learn to ID plants? I want to be able to harvest plants like I'm in an RPG.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Apr 2023 10:44:41 No.2572898 Report

Quoted By: >>2572905 >>2573076 >>2575677

Books. Take the books out with you. Supposedly there are paid apps that can do it quite accurately now but I haven't tried them yet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Apr 2023 11:18:10 No.2572905 Report

Quoted By: >>2572906 >>2575916

>>2572898
The apps are pretty useful and let you just take a picture of the leaves, but books and definitely online resources for identifying plants or learning about local fauna and wildlife are useful. You can harvest a ton of nuts, berries, edible fungi, medicinal herbs, normal herbs like mint, if you know what you are doing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Apr 2023 11:20:40 No.2572906 Report

Quoted By: >>2572908 >>2572987

>>2572905
Between hunting, fishing, gardening, and gathering, you can source a balanced diet from nature yourself. This is how a lot of rednecks and frontier homesteaders survived, and how Indigenous people lived without money. There is a great abundance out in nature if your are knowledgeable and respectful, not taking more than you need so it grows back.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Apr 2023 11:26:47 No.2572908 Report

Quoted By: >>2573077

>>2572906

>if you* are knowledgeable and respectful,

Would start with learning about the local wildlife, to see what you can gather, then learning how to find and identify said plants.

If you are especially bold, you can even plant your own seeds and plants out in nature. As long as it is well suited to the soil and environment. This is called guerilla gardening.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Apr 2023 13:12:24 No.2572933 Report

Quoted By: >>2572967

>>2572897
>harvest plants like I'm in an RPG.
gay reason, but go to your local state park and ask if they have any books on wildlife/plantlife in your region. you can also get a phone app like inaturalist which is sponsored by national geographic and just upload pictures, but it also sends all your info to the government

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Apr 2023 14:38:48 No.2572967 Report

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>>2572933
If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Apr 2023 15:40:27 No.2572987 Report

Quoted By: >>2572992

>>2572906
Boy you cant even call the shit we have today an abundance let alone a great one

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Apr 2023 15:48:57 No.2572992 Report

Quoted By: >>2572997

>>2572987
It depends on where you live. You know 97% of the US is rural land, but how many people have survival skills and could fish/hunt/gather to survive off the abundance of the wilderness? Many are hopelessly dependent on grocery stores, money, and the entire industrial system in a survival situation, hence looting and rioting. Out innawoods, I can fill a freezer with meat overnight with a trotline and a milk jug. My blueberries are coming in nicely as well, will have a large harvest this year.

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Anonymous Wed 26 Apr 2023 16:07:46 No.2572997 Report

Quoted By: >>2572998

>>2572992
When there were 50k people on the whole of the earth, there was abundance

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Apr 2023 16:11:18 No.2572998 Report

Quoted By: >>2573091 >>2575377

>>2572997
If you truly believe this then why not kill yourself? The world would be better off without you according to your own reasoning.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Apr 2023 19:02:22 No.2573076 Report

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>>2572898
The apps are awful if you're trying to learn how to do it. The reason to use field guides is because the good ones explain what to look for and lookalikes. You have to get used to looking at plant details and actually like doing it. The apps are fine for normies but if you actually are trying to get good at plant identification doing it is the only way to get good. You're literally training your eyes how to look at things--you cant do that with an app.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Apr 2023 19:06:13 No.2573077 Report

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>>2572908
I generally tell people to learn trees and shrubs first. Gathering is largely reliant on knowing what grows around what kind of tree.
>>2572967
Good goy

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Apr 2023 19:48:53 No.2573091 Report

Quoted By: >>2573927

>>2572998
Actually, by his reasoning, he should be killing you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Apr 2023 16:59:47 No.2573927 Report

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>>2573091
Nature was the one that almost wiped out humanity multiple times.
My bet is solar cycles and macronova but it is also possible earths axis of rotation has moved in the past--that would also cause global devastation (even floods).

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 23:44:53 No.2575359 Report

Quoted By: >>2575647 >>2575770

>>2572897
1. Rub a bit of the plant on your arm crook,
2. wait several hours, if nothing happens,
3. bite a little bit, hold it a little bit, then swallow,
4. see 2.)
5. take bigger bites

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 00:19:38 No.2575374 Report

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>>2572897
Youtube videos

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 00:27:26 No.2575377 Report

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>>2572998
i love it when threads turn into this

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Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 18:15:46 No.2575647 Report

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>>2575359
>Nom nom nom

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 19:41:04 No.2575677 Report

Quoted By: >>2575916

>>2572898
The apps are good if you find a plant and have no idea what it is. But they're not good if you're actively trying to learn how to identify plants, since they don't actually tell you what you should be looking for.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 23:48:52 No.2575770 Report

Quoted By: >>2575774 >>2575995

>>2575359
Absolutely horrible advice. This is only parroted by "survivalists" and never by actual foragers. Just get a book or go online, find a few plants that are in season and seem interesting, then go find them (use inaturalist to cheat) and repeat. Each plant you learn is another word in a language you are trying to learn.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 00:00:12 No.2575774 Report

Quoted By: >>2575780

>>2575770
>This is only parroted by "survivalists" and never by actual foragers
this lmao

>all the larpers in this thread talking about things they've never done
>meanwhile the actual foraging thread is full of foraging oc
lmao the absolute state of nu-/out/

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 00:09:12 No.2575780 Report

Quoted By: >>2575783 >>2575888

>>2575774
there is no such thing as new/out
you're an idiot

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 00:14:07 No.2575783 Report

Quoted By: >>2575800

>>2575780
>t. nu-/out/ist

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 00:36:18 No.2575800 Report

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>>2575783
>t. idiot
noted

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 04:36:17 No.2575888 Report

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>>2575780
Pottery

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 06:18:11 No.2575916 Report

Quoted By: >>2575997

>>2575677
>>2572905
Okay, so what if I don't want to learn? What is the best app for plant and fungus identification?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 06:50:39 No.2575921 Report

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You need to go all in. At least one book LOCAL TO YOUR AREA specifically. Inaturalist app. then you need a second opinion. Plant identification groups on social media. Good luck:

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 07:03:50 No.2575926 Report

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>>2572897
wildflowersearch.org is a great tool for recognizing things growing near you. You can either look at the search results first and then go out and look for the plants or you can browse around outside first then come back to the site to confirm what you saw. It works well in both directions.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 15:14:36 No.2575995 Report

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>>2575770
The reason you do those tests is to see if you have an allergic reaction, which the internet won't be able to help you with. Idiot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 15:16:33 No.2575997 Report

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>>2575916
I've used the picturethis app with good success. it's the only one I've ever used so I can't say if it's the best one out there. But it did help me distinguish trout lillies from wild leeks a couple days ago.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 15:17:17 No.2575999 Report

Quoted By: >>2576001

>>2572897
Seek is an app that's basically a Pokedex in real life

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 15:20:23 No.2576001 Report

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>>2575999
They say Seek is for children. Are you a child?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 15:25:33 No.2576004 Report

Quoted By: >>2576013

Do any identification apps work offline if you are in the backcountry?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 15:46:05 No.2576013 Report

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>>2576004
lol no
It's image recognition and it goes through a massive catalog of comparisons. Plant ID apps are also total shit. Two identical plants in two different environments can yield massively different physical characteristics... even a difference of a few months in a season can change the appearance of a plant.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 21:02:01 No.2576119 Report

Quoted By: >>2577252

Anyone have any book recommendations in this regard specific to western PA/central Appalachia?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 16:38:50 No.2577252 Report

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>>2576119
>The Plants of Pennsylvania: An Illustrated Manual
I'd check this out from the library first to see if you like it. If they don't have it I'm sure they can get it on inter library loan. I'd also check out what the library has as well on the subject.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 22:10:45 No.2577374 Report

Quoted By: >>2577405 >>2577409

>apps
Why are you foraging in a place that has cell phone service? Are you homeless eating dandelions at the local park?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 23:07:31 No.2577405 Report

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>>2577374
Local big park is planning on installing *another* cell tower to extend service for search and rescue. As well we've already been dealing with the expansion of satellite based internet service for some time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 23:22:25 No.2577409 Report

Quoted By: >>2577416 >>2577989 >>2578271

>>2577374
Everything west of the rockies has cell coverage my dude.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 23:29:51 No.2577416 Report

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>>2577409
Now I don't know about that.

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Anonymous Mon 08 May 2023 01:32:48 No.2577989 Report

Quoted By: >>2578271

>>2577409
Why would you lie on the internet, the blank areas don't have coverage. Even in the mountains right next to Los Angeles there are some places without any signal.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 May 2023 16:15:30 No.2578271 Report

Quoted By: >>2578280

>>2577409
>>2577989
I was drunk and that was a typo
I meant to say east of the Rockies

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 May 2023 16:22:10 No.2578280 Report

Quoted By: >>2578875

>>2578271
No

I drove from Waco to Big Bend last week. Probably 75% of the drive had cell coverage and only 10% of the park.

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Anonymous Tue 09 May 2023 16:51:18 No.2578875 Report

Quoted By: >>2579092

>>2578280
That's because you have a shit carrier--not because there isn't coverage.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 01:25:03 No.2579092 Report

Quoted By: >>2579349

>>2578875
Damn, Idaho looks like the place to be. I visited a town there once, I think it was called Bridgepoint or something like that in the northern part, and it was beautiful. Very nice people, very cozy, tons of /out/ shit anywhere you go.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 16:26:19 No.2579349 Report

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>>2579092
I need you to never speak of this again and to delete this post.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 14:57:33 No.2581432 Report

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I've had great success with facebook groups for foragers.

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