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Met up with buddy today at 8:30 am at a little elementary school not far from my house. The plan today was to walk into the Spring Garden Ansi area (ANSI = Area of Natural Scientific Interest) which is a good sized piece of forest that is connected via trails do other little forests and tree lots in my town. We walked for 5 h today and despite having to cross a couple of roads and ignore the joggers in their garish coloured clothing, it was mostly a nice wilderness day.
The forest is finally starting to wake itself from its winter slumber. Everything is greening up and this is the perfect time to capitalize on the wild edible herbs that are making their appearances made. Part of my goal today was to embellish my lunch (Mr. Noodles) with fresh picked herbs from the forest floor.
The trout lilies have been out for about 4 days or so. Their leaves are mildly toxic so don't munch on too many of these guys.
A wild strawberry and flower. Love them wild strawberries when they are ready.
Mayapples - are also toxic, but their fruits are edible once they become ripe. So I'll keep an eye on the patches of these guys too.
Another one you should avoid. Iris, they look a lot like day lilies which are nicely edible. I mixed the two of them up yesterday and took a nibble of this guys roots. Not good, gives you a hard to describe stomach ache, not vomitting, but a feeling on unease. Kind of like swalling a live hamster and having it run around your stomach.
So if the root looks like this AVOID it!
These are the guys I was looking for. Day lilies. You can eat the new shoots, especially that white portion of the stem where the leaves join at the base of the plant. Their root bulbs are also edible. Take not of the root bulb clusters on these guys compared to the Iris taper root. That is the key difference between them.
So I havested a few day lilies for my soup.
Also ran across some greater burdock which supposedly can be eaten (roots) this time of year. I passed as I wasn't sure and I didn't want hamster stomach again.
More coming...
The forest is finally starting to wake itself from its winter slumber. Everything is greening up and this is the perfect time to capitalize on the wild edible herbs that are making their appearances made. Part of my goal today was to embellish my lunch (Mr. Noodles) with fresh picked herbs from the forest floor.
The trout lilies have been out for about 4 days or so. Their leaves are mildly toxic so don't munch on too many of these guys.
A wild strawberry and flower. Love them wild strawberries when they are ready.
Mayapples - are also toxic, but their fruits are edible once they become ripe. So I'll keep an eye on the patches of these guys too.
Another one you should avoid. Iris, they look a lot like day lilies which are nicely edible. I mixed the two of them up yesterday and took a nibble of this guys roots. Not good, gives you a hard to describe stomach ache, not vomitting, but a feeling on unease. Kind of like swalling a live hamster and having it run around your stomach.
So if the root looks like this AVOID it!
These are the guys I was looking for. Day lilies. You can eat the new shoots, especially that white portion of the stem where the leaves join at the base of the plant. Their root bulbs are also edible. Take not of the root bulb clusters on these guys compared to the Iris taper root. That is the key difference between them.
So I havested a few day lilies for my soup.
Also ran across some greater burdock which supposedly can be eaten (roots) this time of year. I passed as I wasn't sure and I didn't want hamster stomach again.
More coming...
We do have them around here so that is cool.
what's the first knife pictured?
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