Fiddleback Foraging

Odaon said:
Awesome! I finally figured out where the wild onions grow in Colorado. Just haven't found a large enough patch of them to consider harvesting any yet.


Spent about 30 minutes after work gathering a bunch of stuff. :thumbsup:
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Great pics! This would make a great blog post for the new site!
 
Odaon said:
Glad to hear it man! They're definitely tasty. How did you cook them?




Thanks man! I've been so busy lately I haven't even had time to write for my own site haha!!
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I steeped them in hot water for awhile to rehydrate them. Then cooked them with onions and garlic....served on a hamburger steak iirc....im pretty sure i posted a pic in the food thread
 
VANCE said:
I steeped them in hot water for awhile to rehydrate them. Then cooked them with onions and garlic....served on a hamburger steak iirc....im pretty sure i posted a pic in the food thread
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I have a vague recollection of it not that you mention it! Sounds delicious. Makes me want to go find some before I make dinner!
 
It's been a while since I revived this thread. I guess I should have done that weeks ago, when I first started this series of projects. Some for the FF website, and some for another big publication I am working on. These are some of the shots I have taken in a field with a large concentration of Passiflora Incarnata, North American Passion Fruit, I have been working in. Sorry I can't share the detailed shots, I think those are pretty cool. Some of you will see those in the other project, later when it publishes. The fruit isn't ripe yet, I just wanted to share some Fiddleback-Centric images of the flowers in bloom as a PSA for some who may be allergic to bees. The meme going around face book isn't a joke or a hoax as far as I've seen with my own eyes. In times of bad weather, when they can't fly I suppose, I've seen where bees will cuddle up together on flowers and go to sleep.
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VANCE said:
will it taste "rosey"
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Maybe a little :) . Roses are in the apple family, the rose hips, honey, and butter go well together when you get it right. They are also used in making chew-able vitamin C tablets which were my favorites when I was a kid.
 
B Griffin said:
Maybe a little :) . Roses are in the apple family, the rose hips, honey, and butter go well together when you get it right. They are also used in making chew-able vitamin C tablets which were my favorites when I was a kid.
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i actually had never heard of them until they were collecting the on the show "Alaska; The Last Frontier" withe the Kilchers
 
VANCE said:
i actually had never heard of them until they were collecting the on the show "Alaska; The Last Frontier" withe the Kilchers
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I first started ate some if Dallas in 1978. After reading the ingredients on my vitamins lol. Then years later a survival mentor made a glaze like I want to make to put on some fresh caught fish he had cooked. I have been wanting to do this for years, but the last several years also cost me several delays...
 
Nbrackett said:
MY hiking buddy, 10 year old daughter Kimber, and I hit the woods today in search of some ginseng. In the couple hours we were out we did find some "roots" but the time spent with her outdoors is what I enjoy the most.

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That's awesome! I've only gotten into harvesting ginseng the last 5 years. But I've been making my own teas, tinctures, and extracts of it, and it has done wonders for how I feel.
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I'd like to revive this foraging thread this year. Maybe now that my life has settled down after all the craziness from 2016-2021, I can participate more in it.
 
Some images from an upcoming post I'm doing in the W&SS section on late winter foraging. Two plants, Dandelion (Taraxacum) and Wild Lettuce (Lactuca Serriola) , same plant family, very similar in some ways yet very different in others. Both are beneficial and both are good to know. The hairs and triangle stem give the lettuce away. The Dandelion is the one with the yellow flower (though the wild lettuce will have yellow flowers later) and the one on the left in my palm and on the blade
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