Hedgerow Harvest

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pit man

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Anybody got any information they could share on what plants,berries,fungi etc they pick and eat when out and about?
If you could mention what part of the world you are in would be helpful and any photos would be even better !!!:thumbup:
 
I am very interested in this topic too, and live in the SE US. Recently I found out that something I'd been told to avoid was actually Pokeweed, and is both edible and medicianal. I could identify cattails and find the edible parts. Also willow and poplar, and Dandelion, but other than that I'd be in dire straits.
 
In northern New York, wild apples, wild strawberries, raspberries and blackberries and blueberries; fiddlehead ferns in early spring; mushrooms are iffy, but there are puffballs, and those things that grow off the side of a tree like half a disk, and morels which are safe because they don't look like anything else; St. John's Wort, a five pointed yellow flower which I just like to pluck and chew to improve my serotonin in the brain; dandelion greens all summer long; violets; buds and blossoms off of day lilies; cat-tail parts; wild asparagus; milk-weed pods which have to be boiled about three times. There are many books about harvesting wild plants, the original of course was Eull Gibbons "Stalking the Wild Aparagus." Good luck and be safe.
 
I found my first 'Broody Hen' fungi yesterday,I did not eat it but wondered if anybody else has?
 
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