1. Deer
2. Muscadines
3. Blackberrys
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1. Deer
2. Muscadines
3. Blackberrys
Swamp Cabbage, palmetto shoots, Koontie
Plants: manzanita berry cider, black chanterelle mushrooms,
Animals: rockfish and abalone
Hehe, any particular berries you want to tell us about on here friend? :) lbQuote:
Originally Posted by the edge
Hehehe, nope, deer meat ain't supposed to be on this plant menu. :) Sorry bud. Got another plant for us? :) lbQuote:
Originally Posted by longbow shooter
Thanks for those but hehehe, ya got me stumped on the last one there. Koontie? Maybe you've got a picture or link to one? Thanx for posting to this old thread too by the way. :) lbQuote:
Originally Posted by Highhawk1948
Nice list. So is abalone good stuff? How do ya prepare it? :) lbQuote:
Originally Posted by Pale E O
Now there's a smooth move buddy Crash. Thanx man, right where it belongs eh. :) lbQuote:
Originally Posted by crashdive123
Nice link. Thanx. :) lbQuote:
Originally Posted by dilligaf2u2
Just thinking of the noobs in here now. ;) LarryBQuote:
Originally Posted by LarryB
Hehehe Ya, that would be a good idea. Start your own thread boys, there's lots of room on here. :) lbQuote:
Originally Posted by trax
Glad to see a post from a fellow Oregonian. I'm guessing by your name that you live in Tangent. I live in Portland. I love wild berries too. It's awesome when you unexpectedly discover them on a hike.
I like to fry up some cattial root in butter.
Seriously? Tough, spongy rind, internal fibers and all?? Just Fried in butter eh? You will have to teach me that trick.Quote:
Originally Posted by alexpeacock200
Well, around here (today is the first freeze of this year) we have sorrel, sow thistle and wild mustard. All are excellent in salad, and sorrel makes a great walking around snack. The stems are actually more lemony than the leaves. Sow thistle and wild mustard are great adds to any kind of stew.
Now that the freeze has come, Jerusalem artichokes (found some not far away) and Maximillian sunflowers both have nice tubers just waiting to be harvested. They say they taste like potatoes, but they don't really. They are good to eat, however, and have lots of carbs.
Before the freeze, they aren't as good for you, as there is a temperature-driven chemical change in the tubers. Now that it's frozen, we'll mark the spots before the leaves all fall off and the plants get very hard to locate. Gayflower is dying back, too, and it makes a root that's good to eat.
All those plants are googleable, and all are common to many parts of North America. Botanical.com is a pretty good place to look for plants and their uses, but they're short on photos. Sketches don't really do the trick if you're foraging. Too many lookalikes, some of which are not food.
I utterly agree, however, that a fellow could starve to death with a belly full of salad. Calories and carbs from roots and leaves are fine, but we also need some fats and proteins to survive for long. Watch your step, squirrels, I got my eye on you...
For tea, we have a bazillion different flowers and leaves, but yaupon grows everywhere here. The leaves, when dried (low oven until they turn browish is just right) and ground up, have a flavor similar to coffee, and just about as much caffeine. The berries (keep a handful dry in your first aid kit) make a good emetic. I can't prescribe how many is the right dose, though. Never fear, if you take to many, they'll come up with the rest. :thumbup1:
Since I have about 200 yaupon on my property, I may consider just stopping buying coffee altogether, and just process yaupon. I carry some in my emergency bag, too, because you never know when you might need to stay awake at night....:m107:
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BEWARE: By the way, there are two sort of lookalike plants, Possum Haw, and Chinese Privet, both have similarly shaped leaves, both have red berries, and both are said to be very toxic. Never tried them, I just took the man's word for that.
Well, he didn't say he actually ate it, just liked to fry it. Heh. :sneaky2:Quote:
Originally Posted by mountainmark
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Originally Posted by M.Demetrius
Ken is not going to be very happy over this. No, sir. Not one little bit.
speaking of blackberries.
just got back from picking them.
they are pretty big this year.
gonna make black berry pie for the mister tonite.
use to years ago i would make blackberry juice.
blackberry syrup but hubby does not care for the blackberry syrup so much.
blackberry fruit leather.
u can also use the blackberry leaves for tea.i think its a cure for diarreah.
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1) Pine Needle Tea
I use this stuff instead of coffee all the time. Once or twice a week I fill a cargo pocket full of the greenest needles I can find from a few young pine trees and then cut them up into an herb cube tray, chunk the nasty black end pieces, add water until it just covers them, and stick the tray in the freezer.
When I get up in the morning I throw a cube in the coffee cup and add almost boiling water before I get dressed. Then before I walk out if the door I pour it through a strainer into a thermos with some sugar at the bottom, and shake it up while I'm walking to the truck.
I'm seriously addicted. And I have no sinus issues at all. Ever. I had horrible summer colds that turned into bronchitis at least every other year before I made this stuff a part of my regular diet. It's amazing. Just don't boil the needles or it comes out turpentine tea instead of pine needle tea. Coffee pot water works perfect.
2) Muscadines. I am a horrible terrible pig when it comes to muscadines. I can eat a gallon pail all by myself.
3) Wild blueberries. I cannot control myself around these either. If I happen find them, I start popping them in my mouth and never ever ever ever stop until I'm about to explode from the inside out.
Raspberries... deer...turkey
except no substitutes, Chaga, just another gift from the birch tree. One thing about chaga I noticed is that it's usually eight feet of the ground. This can make it a challenge to harvest. I came across a birch grove earlier this year, just loaded with chaga, at a reasonable height to harvest. I may hike back there on monday and get me a pack full.
Down here we have a lot of wild berries. There's an area not to far away from where I live were a patch of blackberries grow, so every season I pick them wild. I pick them and my friend makes cobblers and pies out of them or I eat them plain. Love blackberries. Mulberries and black walnuts are also extremely common, and easy to find if you know where to look. Nettles are common, and are good when cooked up. Dandelions are in abundance.
Blackberry leaves also make a pretty good tea. Just don't consume it in large quantities.
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Originally Posted by Rick
Blackberry leaves contain a tannin. Hydrolysable tannins such as gallotannins and ellagitannins (yes, I googled it. I had no idea what the names were). If you drink a lot of it not only can it cause gastric problems and diarrhea but liver problems as well. I drink it from time to time but I'm not a big tea drinker of any kind.
YUUUMMMYYYY !!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Go_army2
I also like sassafras tea, blackberries, mulberries (tree in my yard) lambs quarter (goosefoot), cattail roots, wild mint tea, dandelions, walnuts, hickory nuts, chess nuts, fish, squirrel, rabbit, deer, groundhog, quail, grouse, turkey, doves, turtle, etc etc etc
Tried to replant some sassafras trees in Wisconsin Coulee Region, for tea....got them from south central Missouri, (seems to be similar terrain), didn't make it....then I found out about the carcinogen in it so backed off.
I do like chamomile and rose hip tea.
I like that tea that has the name of a state, Long Island I think!:smartass:
Hello, was reading all of the posts here and I can see you commented on Oregon, can you tell me if there is any off grid living their in the mountains? Just wondering.
Can you be a little more specific?........ 23 pages of comments.....?Quote:
Originally Posted by cavkid
Backwoods jan/feb 14 issue has an article on natural coffee substitutes,dandelion etc....pretty interesting,im gonna try it this summer
Golden purslane, squirrel, and raspberries. Purslane because its sweet, sour, and crunchy. It goes really great in salads, soups, pickles, etc. Squirrel because it was the first thing I killed, gutted, cooked, and tanned all on my own. Raspberries because there sweat, and there my second favorite berry. (Strawberries are my favorite, but I've never harvested them from the wild.)
I like Leptospermum teas, Smilax glyciphylla tea, Nettles, Deer, Goat and Kangaroo meat, (Goanna meat is delicious too, but you can only have it, if it is killed by Aboriginals), Quail, Pigeon, and Raven meat, Trout (smoked with spice mix and brown sugar!), Yabbies (Cerax destructor), Hyridella australis & depressa (fresh Water mussel), Bogong Moths, Quandongs and Sandalwood nuts (fried in oil), Bunya pine and Macadamia nuts, Lactarius deliciosus funghi (Saffron milk cap), Cissus hypoglauca (water vine grapes), Ficus coronata (Sandpaper Fig), Microseris lanceolata (Murnong root).
Heaps more out there, but these are off the top of my head.
Top 3 plants for me would be:
1. Chile Pequin(little bird peppers)
2. Prickly pear fruits
3. Wild mint
I've had a few others and exotics like lotus root, galangal, pickled fig leaves....And some really crazy ones :-D
Hazelnuts, Wild Brier and Elderberries.
My favorite thing has always been making white fur needle and wild ginger tea when it's really cold. So relaxing.....
I also LOVE pine nuts, but I would love to try making acorn cakes.
Blackberries and walnuts for me. I like most plants with a lemony tang or sweet nectar as well.
I need to take my time and research a lot of info on wild plants. I only know just enough to get by in my state.
Back to the chaga, I've been in search of a pair of climbing spikes to facilitate harvesting the chaga that grows high on the tree.
Randy - If you get a set of hooks make certain the gaffs are for trees. Pole gaffs are shorter since there is no bark to penetrate on a pole. Good brands are Klein, Buckingham and Bashlin. Bashlin makes a set with two gaffs on each stirrup. I don't know if the other guys make similar or not. The gaffs for trees are generally 2 3/4 inches long while the ones for poles are a full inch shorter. Be aware too that there are different styles of gaffs. The difference is in how they connect to the stirrup. Like knives there is a set way to sharpen them.
You should be able to pick up used ones on ebay. Just make certain all the parts are there. Adjustable stirrup, gaffs, ankle strap and connecting ring, shin pad and shin strap. I just gave two sets of pole gaffs away. I wish I'd known you were looking for a set I'd have given them to you. Even if you purchase hooks with pole gaffs you should be able to change out the gaffs for the larger tree version. You can buy new gaffs online just make certain they connect the same way the old ones do.