Mistwalker
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I love foraging in the late summer and early autumn and I've done a few posts on it lately. My little girl has been seeing the pictures I posted in a thread where her mother and I went out.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...mn-Foraging-amp-Experimenting-With-The-Missus
and this thread I posted in the Becker forum.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1008357-Some-Mid-Autumn-Foraging
So...she has been asking a lot of questions about being able to eat foods growing in the woods. Even though this has been an area of serious study for me over the last several years I have been hesitant to teach the little one anything about it because there are so many things she shouldn't eat, or even touch in the bush that it worried me to promote eating wild foods. She has demonstrated a good ability to remember details so I thought what the heck we'll start slow with obvious things.
The outing started with a trip to the post office to pick up a package. I ordered a nano XL for one of my students and a new OD one to replace the one I had left with the nurse who had been looking after my father, in a Maxped organizer urban survival kit. After many late night discussions on the subject of hurricanes and displacement at the nursing home, and seeing how he had looked after my father, I thought it was the least I could do.
The fields are full of drying seed pods so on our way through them I thought, with Ms. C. recently becoming an early retiree, that we would gather up some tinder materials for her to practice with at home.
Lots of horse weed, most is still a little green, but not for much longer.
This grass produces really fluffy seed heads that work great as a first stage tinder.
There is still a good bit of thistle around.
After a bit of a wander we found our first objective, one of my favorite persimmon trees.
Looking back as she followed me through the trail I noticed a funny look on her face I didn't understand, but it went away as fast as it came so I let it go..
I held a branch down to let her pick her first persimmons. She seemed to have fun with that and chattered excitedly the whole time.
I found a nice sweet ripe one to let her try and going strictly by the look on her face she likes them as much as I do.
She got a pretty decent haul, with it being her first time eating them I was worried about her eating to many. Plus a better look at the knife I was carrying, the Yuma by T.M. Hunt.
On the way back into the field she asked me what are those fuzzy things? I said just seed heads of that type of grass. She said hmmm, they look like caterpillars on sticks!
When we got back out to the dirt road she saw the tracks of a small deer.
.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...mn-Foraging-amp-Experimenting-With-The-Missus
and this thread I posted in the Becker forum.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1008357-Some-Mid-Autumn-Foraging
So...she has been asking a lot of questions about being able to eat foods growing in the woods. Even though this has been an area of serious study for me over the last several years I have been hesitant to teach the little one anything about it because there are so many things she shouldn't eat, or even touch in the bush that it worried me to promote eating wild foods. She has demonstrated a good ability to remember details so I thought what the heck we'll start slow with obvious things.
The outing started with a trip to the post office to pick up a package. I ordered a nano XL for one of my students and a new OD one to replace the one I had left with the nurse who had been looking after my father, in a Maxped organizer urban survival kit. After many late night discussions on the subject of hurricanes and displacement at the nursing home, and seeing how he had looked after my father, I thought it was the least I could do.
The fields are full of drying seed pods so on our way through them I thought, with Ms. C. recently becoming an early retiree, that we would gather up some tinder materials for her to practice with at home.
Lots of horse weed, most is still a little green, but not for much longer.
This grass produces really fluffy seed heads that work great as a first stage tinder.
There is still a good bit of thistle around.
After a bit of a wander we found our first objective, one of my favorite persimmon trees.
Looking back as she followed me through the trail I noticed a funny look on her face I didn't understand, but it went away as fast as it came so I let it go..
I held a branch down to let her pick her first persimmons. She seemed to have fun with that and chattered excitedly the whole time.
I found a nice sweet ripe one to let her try and going strictly by the look on her face she likes them as much as I do.
She got a pretty decent haul, with it being her first time eating them I was worried about her eating to many. Plus a better look at the knife I was carrying, the Yuma by T.M. Hunt.
On the way back into the field she asked me what are those fuzzy things? I said just seed heads of that type of grass. She said hmmm, they look like caterpillars on sticks!
When we got back out to the dirt road she saw the tracks of a small deer.
.
She's definitely into learning about the woods, she sees my photos and always asks about what she sees and asks to go next time. The extended tang was definitely a selling point for me, it is a feature I like in knives I carry to the field for a few different reasons.
