Wild Edible Hike Today !

Good stuff Pitdog! My favorite books, albeit a bit more Great Lakes focussed, are Samual Thayer's - Foragers Harvest and his newer one I just received 'Nature's Garden'. His books are not so much an I.D. guide but take about 40 plants each and provide a great deal of depth on how to identify, when and what to harvest, harvest methods and preparation. I also just received Nancy Turner's Common Poisonous Plants and Mushrooms of North America as a field guide compliment. Sometimes is just as good to verify the nasties as it is to figure out the goodies!
 
We did a day-hike yesterday and had a wild edibles stir fry.
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Included were; dandelions, spring onions, violets, mustard garlic, ramps, potatoes and sausage.
It turned out very well.
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Even my pit-dog wanted some!
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Nice nature buffet there! Things are still pretty slow here but I did run across some garlic mustard this morning.
 
That looks great. Now I'm hungry.
 
One Legged Josh said:
We did a day-hike yesterday and had a wild edibles stir fry.
daytrip010.jpg

Included were; dandelions, spring onions, violets, mustard garlic, ramps, potatoes and sausage.
It turned out very well.
daytrip023.jpg

Even my pit-dog wanted some!
daytrip018.jpg
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That stir fry looks awesome !

Ps. Great looking dog ya have !
 
thanks for the post- the PNW looks like a virtual smorgasbord! :)

while no where as near as abundant, the Rockies has more edibles than meets the eye- "Edible & Medicinal Plants of the Rockies" (Linda Kershaw) is a pretty good guide for anyone living (or visiting) there
 
Most major seed catalogs will have seeds for claytonia perfoliata - aka miner's lettuce. Easy to grow and very cold tolerant.
If you plant that, you may as well plant some mache / corn salad.
 
+1 to this very cool thread. I'm new to these forums, and its stuff like this that make it hard to get real work done. One of the things on my very long outdoors todo list is to get more knowledgable about foraging. I'm in Arizona and I know its an embarrassment of riches out there. Of course, everything is covered in spines so its worth doing some research before you pop the un-scraped cholla buds in your mouth and etc, heh.

(Yes, I did that)
 
paperairplane said:
Most major seed catalogs will have seeds for claytonia perfoliata - aka miner's lettuce. Easy to grow and very cold tolerant.
If you plant that, you may as well plant some mache / corn salad.
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Thanks for the tip.
 
Great pics and post! I bet you have tons of wild edibles in your area, very lush looking.
 
pitdog said:
That means a lot buddy thanks, I figured if nobody replied on this post I was gonna make it my last wild edible post !

I've never understood why the topic isn't discussed far more. Finding edible plants in a survival situation is far easier than catching animals for food and yet most members seem totally uninterested ???

Now post a thread about the latest Bushcraft knife from Becker/TOPS etc and you get a hundred replies within minutes !!!!:rolleyes:
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Plenty of interest in wild edibles.

Not too easy to find in my area ... but worth the effort.
 
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