No.236
What's a great edible thing that is common outdoors that people almost never eat and are totally missing out on?
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No.242
Wild Mulberries. They're sweet and tart, almost like a pomegranate.
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No.250
Used in cooking for many years, everything including the root can be eaten. The root is most often used dried and can be ground to make "dandelion coffee". The leaves are known for being added to salads and produce a slightly crisper more individual flavour than normal greens. The flowers, best harvested early spring, can be used to make wine, and again added to a salad or eaten raw.
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No.311
Why would you post a picture of poisonberries OP, unless you meant to grab a picture of currants but still how.
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No.337
>>311i was about to post that too, we got those in canada ive had warning not to touch this poison.
cattail root is good eat.
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No.346
>>242My neighbor had a Mulberry tree, and remember how I would walk past it every day after school without a care in a the world, pop a few berries in my mouth, then go enjoy some vidya games.
How times change.
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No.532
Wart plants
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No.533
I meant wort
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No.815
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No.905
>>250
This. Dandelions are fantastic.
Also, Chicory. Completely edible, and you can make 'poor man's coffee' from the roots.
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No.906
Do any of you guys recommend a specific brand/author of Edible Plant Field Guides? I'd like to pick one up that has color photos or drawings and isn't too big so I can carry it with me in my pack while hiking. One that is state or region specific would be best, but not necessary
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No.910
>>906
look for a teacher in your local area to take classes for, Im trying to find a way to attend Charles Allens class, he wrote a book on edible plants in the gulf coast for USA
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No.911
Just picked these up on my home today in Texas.
American Beautyberry. Good raw or you can make jelly or wine with them.
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No.1229
>>905
Oh! I never knew what that plant was anon, but I see it often. Now I have some chicory to pick!
Fiddlehead ferns along riverbanks in spring, and wild grapes (they can be identified by seed shape) are good if you can stand the sourness.
In many places pedestrians will even pass up black raspberries, which are easy to identify, and blueberries, which have the trademark five-pointed star shape when picked, so be on the lookout for those /out/landers. I've found that with large patches of raspberries that when one person picks them, they can help to trample down overgrowth a few feet into the thicket, opening up the way for the next foraged to pick their share, so don't worry about any tragedy of the commons.
If you're walking in the woods, you might be lucky to spot teaberries/wintergreens. They're low-lying and can look like poisonous berries BUT they have a unique, Venn diagram shape like two round berries fusing together, so if you look closely you can't mistake them. They're fairly flavorless, but its always nice to supplement trail snacks during a hike. Oh, and they're available almost all year round!
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No.1255
Rowan. After you boil it for a few minutes it's really tasty and not poisonous anymore.
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No.1283
Probably more common knowledge but honeysuckles are great. Pull the flower off the bush and suck the nectar out the bottom of it. Usually a decent droplet of it in each flower just make sure there aren't any bugs or ants in there before you do.
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No.1288
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No.1300
>>236
Crabapples
People assume you can't eat them, they grow in profusion, and you can make pounds and pounds of red applesauce out of them.
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No.1302
>>236
Around Colorado Rockies I'd say Eastern Prickly Pear.
Incredibly unique flavor with the strongest being around the seeds. The flesh can be scraped from the underside of the fruit skin.
The seeds, when soaked, act like chia seeds growing a thick goo around them. I haven't tried eating the seeds yet but honestly at this point it looks like a laxative.
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No.1316
Pine cones. Nothing like some raw pine cone granola.
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No.1335
>>236
SWPLs' off-leash dogs.
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No.1342
>>1335
>have dog with Schutzhund training
>walks perfectly next to my leg even in the presence of distractions and other dogs
>people with badly trained dogs always scream at me to put my dog on the leash even though it's their's starting an escape attempt
Maybe I just got lucky with my neighborhood but if I see an unleashed dog I'm less weary of them than of a leashed one.
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No.1360
By far and away, wood sorrel. Abundant in literally everyone's lawn, good source of vitamin c. Delicious all year round, like lemon-juice soaked leaves. Oxalates can be a problem if you consume literally no calcium but otherwise not a problem (and spinach contains more by weight, so…)
Red clover makes a delicious tea when boiled and you can consume its nectar by plucking the fine 'petals' and suckling at the base.
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No.1366
>>1360
Another great one I've tried out this year is garlic mustard. I have some difficulty telling these plants apart, so garlic mustard is a wonderful choice for me because of distinctive appearance: tall, slender plants with tiny 4-leaved white flowers and heart-shaped leaves. They taste great! Besides, it's an invasive species in North America, so there's no guilt eating to your heart's content! They are becoming as common as dandelions in unmowed grass around my area, leading me to first notice the plant and identify it earlier this month.
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No.1378
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No.1411
>>250
>you can eat the whole dandelion
holy shit guess I'll try doing that tomorrow night.
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No.1568
>>1366
Not a bad choice, it tastes like lemonade from experience. Just make sure not to eat whole salads of it since the oxalic acid will form crystals in your kydneys.
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No.1570
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No.1579
Living in England you mostly get raised with the idea that everything is a deadly mushroom level thing, but i remember some episodes of Ray Mears Bushcraft where he camped by an english lakeside and pulled up these immobile shellfish from the shore, onions and carrots and mushrooms and brewed up a shellfish stew using shit found around a wooded inland lake. All he said was 'if you can't tell the mushrooms stick to veg, but not near roads as it will be soaked in petrol fumes'.
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