Post on 22-Dec-2015
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Free is not Impact Freeu An important reminder to all foragers. We can call it "Free Health Care," but
"free" doesn't mean "impact-free" but merely "not for sale" and that the caretaker mindset is the opposite of the consumer mindset.
u "Folks, foraging and consumerism are two different mindsets. If you apply your consumer mindset to foraging you will wipe out the diverse wild food and medicine garden that is your backyard. Being a caretaker as a forager is essential for personal health as well as the health of the landscape. If there is a means to increase biodiversity and mutually beneficial relationships, it is found in ethical and creative foraging. Movements like permaculture and wild food gardens are good starts at reclaiming ancestral understanding of this basic approach. Wild food isn't free. It demands a level of reciprocity. Selfish, short sighted consumer attitudes have given the practice a bad name and have harmed many plant populations. Forage as if the health of your great grandchildren depended upon it. That is all."
u --Mike Douglas, founder of Maine Primitive Skills School
Nettling aroundNettle Pizza with ChantrellesSmoked Gouda & Goat Cheese
Nettle Dumplings in BrodoSlippery Jack mushrooms, Lovage, dried
wild onion, Ginger, Jalapeno, Lemongrass, Nam Pla
Nettle Dumplings: Chopped fresh Nettles, ground Puffballs, Panko and a
farm fresh egg.Garnish: Wild onion, fresh Nettle leaves
(pouring the hot broth over 'cooked' the Nettles enough), grated carrot and
ginger.
Nettle-kopita
Nettle Tortellini in Brodo-Nettle & goat cheese filled tortellini in nettle broth
The ChenosChenopodiaceae
Chenopodium murale
Chenopodium berlanderiChenopodium album
Salsola tragus
Kochia scoparia
Chenos!
Tumblweed shoots. Steamed well, dressed in sesame and Rhustrilobata berries
Cheno Dolmathes with purslane, French sorrel, ground goat meat and Arborio rice. A nice garden
salad and tzadiki with Rhus trilobata berries Cheno Chips with Grilled Oyster Shroom
Pesto, of course
Quelites pasta dough
Red Root AmaranthAmaranthus retroflexus
Stir fry over Jasmine rice: Milkweed buds & shoots, asparagus tips, carrots,
yucca petals, Indian Paintbrush flowers, mustard greens in
ginger/garlic infused coconut oil.Amaranth & Pumpkin Seed Pakoras
with Nettle Yogurt sauce
Amaranth and Porcini Pizza
Wild (About) SushiBrown rice, chickweed, purslane, amaranth greens, lime/ginger yucca blossoms, chives on a wild mustard seed, radish leaf & wasabi puree. On the side, milkweed buds in Tamari. Dressed with Campanula flowers
Purslane Taquitos Corn tortillas rolled and filled with Purslane,
Jalapenos and fresh goat cheeseWith a side of Purslane Salsa
Passionate about Purslane(and some others)
Purslane & Tomato SaladServed with a fresh garlic
cream dressing
Pickled Purslane Purslane & Garbanzo Salad
Brassicaceae
Thlaspi arvense
Descurainia sophia
Capsella bursa-pastoris
Sisymgrium altissimum
Lepidium spp
The MallowsMalvaceae, Alcea Family
All members of this familyhave similar medicinal propertiesEdible flowers, leaves & seeds
Hollyhock
Sidalcea neomexicana
CheeseweedMalva neglecta Sphaeralcea coccinea
Butter’s Wild Greens
Sonchus Pakoras
Sonchus with miso
More things to do with all them
greens
Triple Mustard Salad Road Trip Salad
Squash & Yucca Blossom Soup
Marinated Yucca spears (like artichoke hearts)
Ginger-lime pickled yucca blossoms
Bolete-based miso with ginger-lime pickled
Yucca blossoms
Garlic mashed Yucca root
Just some stuff with Yucca
Heracleum maximum
Osmorhiza occidentalis
Daucus carota
Some from the Carrot Crowd(and some caution to follow)
musineon divaricatum
Cicuta maculata
Conium maculatum
Delphiniumnuttallianum
Poisonous Plants
Zigadenusvenenosus
Actaea rubra
Veratrum tenuipetalum
Thimble BerryRubus parviflorus
The Rube Rubus & Frangapani
Red RaspberryRubus ideaus
StrawberryFragaria vesca
Mountain Forays
Epilobium angustifolium Equistum spp
Solidago spp
Primula spp
Psysalis virginiana
Acer spp
Special Thanks to:Butter Wilde at http://hungerandthirstforlife.blogspot.com/
Erica Marcinec at http://wildfoodgirl.com/Karen Stephenson at http://www.ediblewildfood.com/
Pascal Bauder at http://www.urbanoutdoorskills.com/Karen Raczewski Monger at http://the3foragers.blogspot.com/
Holly Drake at http:/wildblessings.com
& Nitschka Ter-Kuile & DaisyRabbit Hole Ranch