I was taking a walk yesterday in a HUGE state park and was fortunate to stumble upon lots of wild berries and wild grapes. They weren't quite ripe yet, but in a week or so they will be. Does anyone else forage in the woods for any of their food? There are so many edible plants you can use in salads or stuff to make tea out of it's crazy! Of course, berries are always easy and delicious
yeah dude! I read the "eat the weeds" forum, and Ive started to eat clover and other wild plants since then.
I read a really cool article today about how our impressions of of the foraging hunter gatherer life were really off base. In actuality most hunter gatherer societies have healthier people both mentally and physically and life wasn't quite as heard as we all like to think in the industrial age. article link:http://anthro.palomar.edu/subsistence/sub_2.htm
Whenever I'm out hunting or fishing I munch all day! The leaves and tendrels of wild grapes are one of my faves!
in da northwoods of michigan there is all kinds of things: leeks, beeries,pine needles natural walk-about foraging is how i eat while campin-peace and love
i also pick tons of berries. blackberries, salmonberries, salal berries, huckleberries, thimbleberries, oregon grapes... and of course there plenty of other edible plants. i love chickweed in my salads and sandwiches.
ooh, the wasteland next to where I live had wild tomatoes, they're the most delicious thing ever! Only the size of a marble, but they explode in your mouth ^_^ Gosh, they're tasty
I'm very interested in wild foraging. Other than picking blackberries and eating thistle, I have no experience. I would like to read a few books on this topic.
I love wild black berries. Those are so good. There are hickory nuts around here in the woods that are very tastey as well
Hello everyone, I know this is an older post, so hopefully you'll get back here one day. I have two books I like very much when foraging, one even has reciepies for wild foods. Tom Brown's Field Guide/Wilderness Survival, this has 100 edibles, when and where Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants by Steve Brill and Evelyn Dean This is very informative, it also shows the poisonous look a likes to avoid. Enjoy and peace everyone.
Yeah it is crazy how people thought of the Native Americans as "primative" because they got what they needed from nature and not farming. If you think about it they had to expend less energy to feed, clothe, and shelther themselves.
Yeah, and many people don't realize how much more vitamins are in wild foods than with commercially grown, which has been so watered down for making money on shipping weight. Nature provides all we need to live if one takes the time to learn the what and how, but society has programmed so many into their way of thinking and doing, that they've become lazy and dependant on machines, and the so-called primitave way became unthinkable to them. Society is so far removed from nature, and its clearly evident by the "progress of man" of how little respect they have for the preservation of nature and its future, thus our's as well. I think living off the land, or even learning certain aspects of it, one will learn more respect for nature and how much people really take it for granted.
yeah and another good one is Wildwoodsurvival.com it has cool tricks like making fire from a soda can and a choclate bar or fire from ice.
Yeah wildwood is a great site they have amazing tips on there. I'm surprised it's not more well known I stumbled upon it a few weeks ago myself.
