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Anonymous Fri 01 Aug 2014 19:31:08 No.360182 View View Reply Original Report

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Where my fellow foragers at? What edibles are found where you live? What do you do with them? I currently have in my freezer choke cherries, rose hips, Oregon grape, and service berries.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Aug 2014 20:40:50 No.360212 Report

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>>360182
I heard truffles are worth like 100 million a piece, where do you find these bitches...

Necromancer

Necromancer Fri 01 Aug 2014 20:49:00 No.360217 Report

Quoted By: >>360218 >>364572

>>360212

Underground and you use trained pigs.

>>360182

I'm pretty noob-tier when it comes to foraging. It's pretty much common berries (Blackberries and raspberries) and also hazel-nuts. I also THINK I found sweet chesnut (And now I know it I see it fucking EVERYWHERE) but I want to confirm it and I also want to find out if it's edible when raw or cooked or both or neither. (I forgot to google it but this thread has reminded me)

Necromancer

Necromancer Fri 01 Aug 2014 20:55:42 No.360218 Report

Quoted By: >>360222

>>360217

Nope, it's Beech and not sweet chesnut.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Aug 2014 20:56:32 No.360220 Report

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>>360212
In France

Necromancer

Necromancer Fri 01 Aug 2014 20:58:46 No.360222 Report

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>>360218

And I've just discovered that beech nuts (Picked too early, as well) dry your mouth out like sand. Not bitter when young though, but I got told that they were (which they may be when ready to eat).

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Aug 2014 06:48:45 No.360523 Report

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I live in southern Ontario, like really close to the border. What kind of edible plants can I commonly find here, and how to find them?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Aug 2014 06:58:44 No.360528 Report

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>>360222
i just googled a pic of beech nuts how the fuck are you supposed to open them? they remind me of sweet gum tree nuts

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Aug 2014 07:12:41 No.360536 Report

Quoted By: >>360538

>be inna elementary school
>pick and eat wild blueberries
>get ISS for 5 days

Such is life in suburbia

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Aug 2014 07:21:00 No.360538 Report

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>>360536
used to do that and blackberries aswell as honeysuckle blossoms

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Aug 2014 12:24:22 No.360574 Report

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>>360182
I usually find stuff like raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, european spruce buds, ground elder and common beech-leaves. I usually eat them right away as I find them, or I put them in jams or freezer. If I find any mushrooms I dry them and give them away since I'm not fond of mushrooms.

Necromancer

Necromancer Sat 02 Aug 2014 12:31:32 No.360577 Report

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>>360528

At first I found them to be near impossible to open with your fingers. I'm sure you could scrape away the flesh with a knife. However, leaving the nuts in my bag for a day or two, I discovered the nut cases opened themselves as they dried out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Aug 2014 15:38:21 No.360630 Report

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>>360182
So far I've found on my land:

>Staghorn Sumac (Sumacade)
>Shit loads of blackberries (Jelly or juice)
>Wood Sorrel (eat raw)
>Hickory nuts (eat raw/add to bread)
>Black Walnuts (add to bread/brownies)
>White acorns (flour)
>Mulberries (Jelly)
>Mayapples (eat raw)
>Rosebuds (flour)
>Wild onions (add to food)
>Black mustard (spice)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Aug 2014 17:05:04 No.360664 Report

Quoted By: >>360666 >>361184

>>360182
>What edibles are found where you live?

A
Alliaria petiolata (Garlic Mustard)
Allium bisceptrum (Wild Onion)
Allium ursinum (Wild Garlic)
Amaranthus retroflexus (Amaranth)
Ambrosia artemisiifolia (Common Ragweed)
Aralia nudicaulis (Wild Sarsaparilla)
Arctium minus (Common Burdock)
Asarum caudatum (Wild Ginger)
Asclepias syriaca (Common Milkweed)

B
Brassica alba (White mustard; Sinapis alba)
Brassica nigra (Black Mustard)

C
Chenopodium album (Lamb's quarters)
Chamerion angustifolium (Fireweed; Great Willow-herb; Rosebay Willowherb)
Cirsium arvense (Canada Thistle; Creeping Thistle)
Chenopodium berlandieri (Lamb's quarters; Pitseed Goosefoot)
Cyperus esculentus (Yellow Nutsedge; Tigernut)
Cichorium intybus (Common Chicory)
Claytonia perfoliata (Miner’s lettuce)
Camassia quamash (Common Camas)
Circium vulgare (Bull Thistle; Spear Thistle)

D
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace; Wild Carrot)

E
Epilobium angustifolium [Chamerion angustifolium] (Fireweed; Great Willow-herb; Rosebay Willowherb)
Erechtites hieracifolia (Fireweed; American burnweed; Pilewort; Edible Pile Driver)

F
Fragaria virginiana(Wild Strawberry)

G
Galinsoga quadriradiata (Quickweed)
Galium aparine (Bedstraw, Cleavers, Sticky Weed)
Glechoma hederacea (Ground Ivy; Creeping Charlie; brewing names: Alehoof, Tunhoof, and Gill-over-the-ground)

H
Helianthus annuus (Common Sunflower)
Heracleum lanatum (Cow Parsnip)
Helianthus tuberosus (Jerusalem Artichoke; Sunchoke)

L
Lamium amplexicaule (Henbit)
Lamium purpureum (Purple Deadnettle)

M
Mentha sp (Mint)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Aug 2014 17:06:05 No.360666 Report

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>>360664
O
Oxalis stricta (Common Yellow Woodsorrel; Sourgrass; Common Yellow Oxalis, Upright Yellow-sorrel, Lemon Clover; Pickle Plant)

P
Persicaria maculosa (Polygonum persicaria; Lady's Thumb; Spotted Lady's Thumb; Jesusplant; Redshank)
Plantago lanceolata (Ribwort Plantain)
Plantago major (Common Plantain)
Portulaca oleracea (Common Purslane; Verdolaga; Pigweed; Little Hogweed; Pursley; Moss Rose)

R
Ribes sp. (Currants; Gooseberries)
Rosa sp. (Wild Rose)
Rubus sp. (Blackberry; Raspberry; Dewberries)
Rumex acetosella (Sheep Sorrel)
Rumex crispus (Curly Dock; Yellow Dock)
Rumex occidentalis (Western Dock)

S
Sambucus Canadensis (American Elderberry)
Stellaria media (Chickweed)

T
Taraxacum officinale (Common Dandelion)
Tragopogon porrifolius (Common Salsify)
Trifolium pretense (Red Clover)
Trifolium repens (White Clover)
Typha latifolia (Common Cattail)

U
Urtica dioica (Stinging Nettle)

V
Vaccinium sp. (Blueberries; Cranberries)
Viola sp. (Violets)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Aug 2014 13:50:46 No.361156 Report

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>>360577
Most nuts need a "seasoning" period of time where they dry out a bit and loosen from their shells. Stuff like hickory nuts and walnuts need around 1 month of seasoning time. Otherwise, they are a real bitch to get out.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 03 Aug 2014 14:25:36 No.361173 Report

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>>360182

In Central Texas, one of the things I learned to munch on innawoods are Muscadine grapes, the vines grow wild.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Aug 2014 14:33:47 No.361180 Report

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>>360182
I live in a small City near Frankfurt- Germany.
In a 5km radius
I found:
>Peppermint
>deadnettle
>blackberrys (a shit ton of em)
>rabbits rabbits rabbits
>buckhorn, ribgrass, ribwort (In german we call it Spitzwegerich)
>daisy
>Some plants I am not sure I have identified right
>yellow plums
>purple-leaf plums
>rosehips

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Aug 2014 14:35:03 No.361181 Report

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>>361180
With the Deadnettles I made myself some nice rice (I hate rice)
Peppermint tea
and the blackberrys I gave to the birdys ( probably had 500g of em and I didnt really feel like eating them)

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 03 Aug 2014 14:39:19 No.361184 Report

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>>360664
>>360666
Where do you get your resources to identify edible plants? Just google each plant or do you have some book, maybe some database on some website? Some PDF?
Please tell me

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Aug 2014 15:05:29 No.361195 Report

Quoted By: >>362941

>>361184
All of the above.

Over the years my list has grown mostly because of new sources found on google that did not exist in previous years. So, keep using google.

Here's a few to get you started,

http://www.eattheweeds.com/
http://www.ediblewildfood.com/edible-weeds.aspx

Also, check out weeds that you can not eat at all,

http://www.eattheweeds.com/ufos-2/

You can further google how to use the plants once you know the scientific name and several common names. I also use google scholar for a few things. That way you know what parts of the plants are edible, when they are edible, and how to prepare them to make them edible. Not everything is a salad green after all.

One thing is the difference between "edible" and "palatable". Edible means you can eat it without ill effects as a food crop. Palatable means you can better enjoy eating it. Take chicory for instance. It is edible, but holy shit if it highly unpalatable unless you really love super bitter things. Yet, lamb's quarters is edible and highly palatable both raw and cooked.

Another neat thing is there are tons of edible "weeds" that are not listed on most any list simply because they are too weedy. Take normal yard grass (not ornamental grasses). Their seeds are fully edible and fairly palatable depending on how you prepare them. They leaves are also edible and can be juiced (like wheatgrass,) yet it isn't nearly as palatable.

Then there are imported ornamentals that are edible like hosta shoots (Japanese cuisine "urui"), nasturtium (poorman's capers) and bamboo shoots,

http://www.pfaf.org/user/cmspage.aspx?pageid=78
http://barbaraprice.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/eat-shoots-and-leaves/
http://www.rosalindcreasy.com/popular-edibles/edible-flowers/

Just always do lots of research, don't eat much your first time, remember there's usually a way to make something taste good, and remember edible doesn't always mean palatable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Aug 2014 13:53:56 No.361822 Report

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bumping

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 05 Aug 2014 20:05:12 No.362489 Report

Quoted By: >>362490 >>362574 >>362937

I love collecting elderberry. I use them to bake muffins/bread and brew beer/wine.

Pic 1/2, yesterday's harvest.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 05 Aug 2014 20:06:35 No.362490 Report

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>>362489

Pic 2/2. Took about 1 and 1/2 hours to clean that entire 5 gallon bucket. Ended up with ~1 and 1/2 lbs. of delicious berries.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Aug 2014 23:48:46 No.362574 Report

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>>362489
>>362490
I love them too. Only a neighbor decided to remove all of them here to angle the river bank better. Now there's none near.

Word of advice. When you process those, use vegetable oil to clean off the weird green gunk. Soap won't work. It has to do with the polar/non-polar molecular stuff.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Aug 2014 00:29:44 No.362590 Report

Quoted By: >>362871

>>362574

I'm not sure I've ever seen the green gunk you've mentioned.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Aug 2014 01:08:27 No.362617 Report

Quoted By: >>362939

So I think I found puffball mushrooms, pea sized ones. There were some mature ones the same size nearby that defiantly were puffball mushrooms but had the darkened flesh that means they're past edibility.

Opened the two I collected and they were white and foamy and otherwise formless inside. Cooked (fully) them into my dinner, can't really tell they're there.

Hopefully I don't die anons.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Aug 2014 06:13:17 No.362781 Report

Quoted By: >>362935

Missouri here. I always harvest raspberries to eat straight-up and blackberries for pie or with vanilla ice cream.

For my little nieces I take mulberries or currants, which both have a more mealy texture and subtle flavor, and make fruit-roll-ups with them. First we press and strain the juice, then mix with a little honey, then pour onto a sheet of plastic wrap and let dry for hours. Roll it up and cut into strips. It's tasty and fun for the kids.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Aug 2014 11:56:30 No.362871 Report

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>>362590
I make wine with elderberries from time to time. I use a Squeezo to process them. The green gunk comes mostly from the stems. So, if there are a few stems here and there you end up with lots of green gunk on your equipment. When you are processing 100 gallons of this stuff you end up with a lot of green gunk.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Aug 2014 15:42:46 No.362935 Report

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>>362781
that sounds tasty ill have to try that sometime

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Aug 2014 15:44:01 No.362937 Report

Quoted By: >>362942

>>362489
how to tell elderberry apart from hemlock?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Aug 2014 15:45:09 No.362939 Report

Quoted By: >>363127

>>362617
when you slice through a puffball it shouldnt have what looks like an embryo of another mushroom on the inside it should be all white
theres a few other characteristics too idk tho

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Aug 2014 15:49:47 No.362941 Report

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>>361195
i love chewing on the stalks of the crabgrasses around here, so good

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Aug 2014 15:50:07 No.362942 Report

Quoted By: >>362949

>>362937

Here you go: http://www.eattheweeds.com/ufos-2/look-alikes/elderberry-or-water-hemlock/

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Aug 2014 16:13:51 No.362949 Report

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>>362942
thanks, looks like i have plenty of water hemlock

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Aug 2014 21:06:50 No.363127 Report

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>>362939
No you have it backwards. The inside of puffballs is all white with no structure besides the skin and fluffy innards. If it has any gills or a stem it is a destroying angel deathcap.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Aug 2014 21:16:48 No.363133 Report

Quoted By: >>366426

Found lots of puffballs all over today, most were too mature (brown inside). Found a recipe where you brown them in butter then mix into scrambled eggs. I think their flavor is closest to that vegan yeast "cheese" which makes some sense considering yeast is also a fungus.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Aug 2014 13:05:29 No.364572 Report

Quoted By: >>364576 >>366423

>>360217
my dog sniffs em out. bring your dog next time you go for truffles, encourage them to sniff around base of trees. if they turn one up give treats

I trained our dog with one tiny truffle, I'd toss it in the litter and have her sniff, until she turned t up, then let her smell it and reward her

I've got a lot of dried chanterelles right now, some frozen steamed chicken of the woods, and elk meat galore. waiting on the wild turkeys to come by my place again, they start showing up in sept.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Aug 2014 13:08:42 No.364576 Report

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>>364572
I'm in the pacific NW usa
oregon has loads of truffles.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Aug 2014 14:43:53 No.366423 Report

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>>364572
I really want to train a dog to hunt truffles. Sadly, I don't really like needy pets all that much.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Aug 2014 14:47:47 No.366425 Report

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>>360182
Right now it's blueberry/raspberry time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Aug 2014 14:48:59 No.366426 Report

Quoted By: >>366428

>>363133
Found two giant puffballs in my neighbors field when I was a kid, dad grilled them.
Didn't know exactly what he was doing so he kept adding garlic butter until they stopped soaking it up, really amazing flavor, but sickening.

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Anonymous Tue 12 Aug 2014 14:56:11 No.366428 Report

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>>366426
I just batter dip and deep fry/pan fry slices or chunks of giant puffballs (Calvatia gigantea). Sometimes I use those as the chicken in American-Asian recipes like Kung Pao, Orange Chicken, and General Tso's. Other fungi are good for that substitution as well, especially chicken-of-the-woods (Laetiporus sulphureus).

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