tallpines
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Post by tallpines on Sept 10, 2019 14:58:52 GMT -5
Perhaps it already exists ... If I have overlooked it, please, point me in the correct direction. Can we consider a board primarily for our ”harvests from the wild” (rather than a cultivated garden)? Some topics might be .... Ramps Berries ... Raspberries, Blueberries, Blackberries, Elderberries Tree fruits ... Apples, Plums Fiddleheads Mushrooms Asparagus Etc. Perhaps even including the animal kingdom ... Deer Squirrels Turkey Duck Fish Bear Etc. My WILD Harvests from today.
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Post by bestofour on Sept 10, 2019 20:56:18 GMT -5
Can you point me in the right direction to finding a handsome, sweet faced young man such as the one you found.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Sept 10, 2019 21:43:28 GMT -5
Epazote is a wild herb I used to look for all the time, until I started using Red Oaxacan epazote. I also found lambs quarters and a couple of other weeds, which were good, but not enough of them, even when I bought seeds for them!
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Post by coppice on Sept 20, 2019 14:14:53 GMT -5
Yay! a forum I can prattle on about trees!
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tallpines
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Post by tallpines on Sept 20, 2019 19:19:53 GMT -5
Yay! a forum I can prattle on about trees! Looking forward to your prattle!
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Post by paquebot on Sept 20, 2019 19:58:39 GMT -5
Been waiting to find a pile of puffballs in my back lawn. Neighbor had a tree removed some years ago and it's been good for 5 or 6 mushrooms the past few years. A new lawn care service this year so the mycelium may have been killed if it didn't run out of food.
Martin
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Post by bestofour on Sept 21, 2019 11:25:48 GMT -5
tallpines, I'm curious as to how you used those mushrooms you harvested on the 10th.
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Post by tallpines on Sept 21, 2019 16:18:36 GMT -5
tallpines , I'm curious as to how you used those mushrooms you harvested on the 10th. Have not used them yet ..... The hen of the Woods was dehydrated for future use in stews and veggie beef soup. The chicken of the Woods (Sulfur Shelf) was chopped and frozen .... for ....(I’m open to suggestions.) Thinking I will sauté small amounts to use in omelets or a pizza topping. The local “mushroom expert” that I showed it to, to confirm that it is okay to eat, gave me a warning! He said some people have more delicate systems. Advised to eat only small amounts until you know how your system will handle it. So .... obviously I cannot take it to a “dish to pass” event! And .... my DH is rather finicky about trying new foods .... even if the new mushrooms do not affect him physically, in his ‘head’ he will be convinced that he is about to die! 😏 I will be sneaking very small amounts, chopped into small pieces, into things like stir-fry and the likes. .
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Post by paquebot on Sept 22, 2019 6:49:41 GMT -5
If chopped and dehydrated, good way to use them is in spaghetti sauces. Although canning mushrooms is not USDA approved, you may find sauces on store shelves which have them as one of the ingredients. If a commercial canner can do it, so can you Since neighbor's puffballs have always been at the same time as sauce canning, that's where some have ended up rather than the frying pan.
Martin.
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by carolyn on Sept 22, 2019 7:13:46 GMT -5
I got paw paws at my farmers market yesterday> hip hip hooray! I have one tree that we cut down years ago and now hundreds of little suckers have popped up but I have no pollinator tree yet so all these seeds will be going to pots to try and get me a few germinated and planted at the woods edge... or wherever they should be. I will have to look into that unless someone here has an answer straight up.. and if so, thanks in advance.
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Post by carolyn on Sept 22, 2019 7:16:42 GMT -5
tallpines , I'm curious as to how you used those mushrooms you harvested on the 10th. .....And .... my DH is rather finicky about trying new foods .... even if the new mushrooms do not affect him physically, in his ‘head’ he will be convinced that he is about to die! 😏 I will be sneaking very small amounts, chopped into small pieces, into things like stir-fry and the likes. . LOL. I ate some comfrey in front of my new sister in law last week and she freaked out and said I was going to die. You are crazy now you are going to die.... she kept fretting over it. then last night while she was here I picked some for an eye compress for her and then she ate a little ... seeing I hadn't expired....
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Post by reubent on Sept 22, 2019 15:02:34 GMT -5
we eat sulfur shelf and several other kinds of wild mushrroms, sometimes make a whole meal on them, they're delicious stir fried with a little onion and seasoning. Wild greens are common fare when we get around to grabbing some. Especially the milkweed that's common here, excellent flavored pot herb. There's a lot of wild things we like to eat. Some I just nibble on as I pass by, don't bother to collect and eat any quantity.
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Post by bestofour on Sept 22, 2019 18:38:41 GMT -5
carolyn, hahahaha glad you didn't expire.
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 22, 2019 18:52:46 GMT -5
Comfrey is not going to kill you right away but experts agree that it can cause severe liver damage and even cancer. I would not eat it.
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Post by Tim Horton on Oct 28, 2019 20:34:39 GMT -5
Here in the far north bush we have a number of wild edible things.
I don't know much about them, but know there are several fruits available.
Wild Saskatoon, and honey berry, both a cousin to the blueberry. Low bush cranberry, lingonberry. Wild sour cherry. Thimble berry, kind of a wild raspberry.
There may be others.
In the river valley there are a lot of apples. No name varieties that are pretty much runt looking trees and fruits. Good dried for critter food, occasional good for sauce and rarely some good for the table.
We also have a short mushroom season, but I have never found any.
Another problem is, required equipment to forage in many places is a 12 ga loaded with slugs for self protection from competing bears.
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Post by coppice on Oct 28, 2019 21:06:24 GMT -5
[quote author=" carolyn" source="/post/78676/thread" timestamp="1569154426" Asimina seed should be held damp and in fridge will just about when your frosts end. Use a tupperware and some damp peat or papertowel. Do not freeze or dry asimina seed. Here in SE-OH I set out seed about May 1st. seed germinates first week or so in August, I repot into single cells the next spring, and to field the fall after.
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tallpines
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Post by tallpines on Oct 28, 2019 21:07:35 GMT -5
Bought a license for deer hunting this year. Unfortunately Wisconsin’s deer season is always the same week as Thanksgiving 😳.
I will be hosting the 20+ of our family for the festivities...... I have the worse housekeeping skills and a huge phobia about entertaining guests. I have a PANIC ATTACK every time I see a car coming up my driveway!
Would have liked sitting in my tree stand in the stillness of nature ..... But now it seems I will be too busy fretting over responsibilities INSIDE the house .
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Post by carolyn on Oct 29, 2019 11:14:37 GMT -5
[quote author=" carolyn " source="/post/78676/thread" timestamp="1569154426"Asimina seed should be held damp and in fridge will just about when your frosts end. Use a tupperware and some damp peat or papertowel. Do not freeze or dry asimina seed. Here in SE-OH I set out seed about May 1st. seed germinates first week or so in August, I repot into single cells the next spring, and to field the fall after. they are in the fridge.
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Post by coppice on Nov 7, 2019 17:23:47 GMT -5
they are in the fridge.[/quote] Good enough. Asimina are not pollenated (as a rule) by bees. Most often flies. Plant at least a couple trees near your compost bin...
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Post by carolyn on Nov 7, 2019 20:19:37 GMT -5
Good enough. Asimina are not pollenated (as a rule) by bees. Most often flies. Plant at least a couple trees near your compost bin...[/quote] good to know. I will put them close to the chicken yard then.
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