Foraging and Remembering
Posted in Classes, foraging, gardening, invasive species, local food, wild food on Jul 6th, 2010
Perused one of my local wild spots yesterday, with an eye out for the surplus. I’m looking for things whose cup overfloweth, if you know what I mean. So at this time, mostly overripe (we got about 1% of the harvest) wild artichokes (Cynara cardunculus) open up into these amazingly beautiful [...]
Posted in Culture, Plants, ethnobotany, foraging, gardening, invasive species, local food, permaculture, wild food on May 23rd, 2010
Cynara cardunculus, or artichoke thistle, is the wild version of the commerical artichoke. But get this, they taste the same, and have delicious hearts, but they are armored with thistle spikes. Considering eating a whole artichoke down the heart is a slow food and fun ordeal already in our culinary traditions, [...]
Posted in Animals, Plants, ecodreaming, foraging, mushrooms, tending the wild, wild food on May 13th, 2010
New video, again shot in early March. I’ve noticed how three of my favorite foraged foods are scarcely (if at all) eaten by wildlife. They require processing, namely heat (chanterelles and bay nuts both must be cooked before they are edible). This type of processing (at least on planet Earth) can [...]
Posted in Plants, gardening, holistic health, local food on Nov 30th, 2009
David Wolfe has called these fruit, (not actually berries) Incan berries. So you can buy them at Whole Foods or whathaveyou, often as Incan Berries. You can even go to this site and go to products and buy them.
They are also known as:
poha,
Cape gooseberry
ground cherry
golden berry (or goldenberry).
These superfoods [...]
Posted in ecodreaming, gardening, permaculture, tending the wild on Jun 27th, 2009
Biochar + Biology + Minerals = miraculous healing of the soil?
For instance, soak Biochar in aerated (brewed) compost tea, work it into soil along with mineral clays like Azomite or Terramin. Mycorhizae as well.
The combo remediates toxins, adds long lasting carbon to the soil, and replenishes its minerals.
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Posted in Plants, ethnobotany, foraging, local food, wild food on May 6th, 2009
I have a huge crop of wild oats standing in the open space around me. Does anybody have any idea what to do with them? The husk seems mighty.
I recently learned from Green Deane that some East Coast natives used to grind the nuts of Prunus [...]
Posted in Plants on Mar 16th, 2009
Watch me harvest nettles from my balcony container garden and cook them up as creme of nettle soup.
The nettles in this video were planted from seed that I bought from Mountain Rose Herbs.
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Posted in ecodreaming, ethnobotany, feralculture, mushrooms, permaculture, tending the wild, wild food on Feb 20th, 2009
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Feraltopia: An Ethnobotanical Park
Feraltopia aims to provide a place for foragers to gather and interact with wild plants and mushrooms. It also serves as a primitive [...]
