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Foraging has been something I have been learning about. When I went to the mountains, I saw wild onions, rose hips, wild spinach, wild lettuce, pine needles, I saw an herb ( a legal herb) with a small yellow flower...Darn lol I can't remember the name of it. Saw some hog tracks, didnt catch a fish though.
Thats just the little bit Ive learned and put to practice. I would like to learn more. Are there any good books? For beginners? In depth? Nice clear pics to help identify?
It was Wild Parsely.
There are a series of books called Peterson’s Guides that I find helpful.
What he said.
I like the Peterson guides. I have one about rocks and another about medicinal plants and herbs. Is there a separate for foraging? I know the medicinal plant guide tells what the plants can be used for. Is there another guide I am missing?
Edible Wild Plants: A North American Field Guide to Over 200 Natural Foods
Well Golly be willicers. There's a reason why we cultivated edible plants. BECAUSE THEY TASTE BETTER!!!
This is genetic engineering. Deal with it.
Trust me. Wild plants foraging sucks.
Seems that no one ever realizes that we invented agriculture because foraging wild foods sucks!
It appears the even Paleolithic humans began rearranging the environment and helping their favorite "wild crops" along as soon as they discovered they had outrun the last glacier. They kept what we today call "orchards" in both Europe and the New World. In the American south east they were heavy into aquaculture, growing several types of aquatic vegetables that that are now extinct.
In most cases they were not really foraging randomly like a lost hippy, they were going to where they knew the food was growing.
Same for hunting. They were not out chasing game, they were going to where they knew the food went. Salt licks, feeding areas, well used game trails, stream crossings, and watching from high points that gave sweeping views of large areas.
We have a state park in which a portion is manmade ponds. The "native americans" would net and store them alive in these ponds. Not a well known trivia fact.
I realized very quickly after one or two "Pot and Machete" challenges that ya gotta prep. Or else it is a crappy diet and you'd probably die of malnutrition. Living off the land is over rated challenge. In FL anyway.
Build a homestead. With that you can thrive.
fla has tropical friuts many other type plants and greens, 50ft pythons gators
fish, ect ect. i would get fat in florida in fact in did when i lived there many moons ago.
good call crash those books areawesome