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Post by FOTH on Sept 19, 2011 13:58:54 GMT -6
What's currently available in your area, wild food-wise?
Here, the chokecherries are coming ripe and will be ready to harvest as soon as the first frost hits them, pine nuts are coming in and it's acorn time, among other things.
Tell us about your local resources, and how you use them!
(Photos welcome...)
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Post by jacki on Sept 20, 2011 16:37:46 GMT -6
Blackberries. huckleberries, thimbleberries, oregon grape, salal berries, hazelnuts, chinkapin. and wild plums are all ripe, or will be ripe soon. It all depends on the elevation.
Jacki
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Post by grantmeliberty on Sept 20, 2011 19:55:55 GMT -6
We have elderberries and gooseberries and blackberries. The gooseberries are the thorny type, have to wear leather gloves for them. Technically, I suppose the blackberries are introduced, not native. We also have abandoned orchards and nut trees, lots of apples and walnuts coming on. We have manzanita berries which I have eaten from the bushes, although the native americans processed them more and consumed quite a lot of them. There is also a fair amount of wild rose hips available. The pines have lots of nuts, the bull pines have the largest, and the oaks are dropping a whole lot of acorns.
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Post by suvalley on Sept 20, 2011 21:01:37 GMT -6
For south central Alaska.....lingonberries, bear berries, last remaining blueberries. High bush cranberry, low bush cranberry. Rose hips of all kinds. I am sure there are other things being harvested this time of year, besides moose and caribou  |
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Post by thefishinmagician on Sept 21, 2011 11:46:00 GMT -6
SouthWest Florida. The Sea Grapes are ripening now, and many Coconut Palms are producing. Away from the Gulf coast, the Oaks and Pines are dropping acorns and cones. |
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Post by AlaskaSue on Sept 21, 2011 18:25:01 GMT -6
I am just about to harvest my first bee hives, looks like I'll get a bit of honey this first year after all  That's a new harvest for me and I'm really excited to see how we did! Other than that it's as SuValley said, berries right now! I'd sure love to be able to get some acorns (nary an oak up here  ) like the Fishin Magician's able to get. Would sure love to try out some acorn meal cakes with that honey! I just got back from a drive thru Denali National Park (won the lottery to drive the road myself) and wouldn't that be a hunters' paradise! Lots and lots of critters close at hand!! But I'll have to go later for my moose! |
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Post by EdD270 on Sept 21, 2011 20:10:39 GMT -6
Here in Arizona's mountains we currently have: wild currants, barberry (Oregon grape), purslane, strawberries, rose hips, yarrow, gooseberries, grapes, and hundreds more of plants and berries and leaves and roots.
In the deserts are all manner of cactus parts and fruits, mesquite beans, and other plants.
Plus, grouse season is now open, and squirrel, quail and turkey season opens this Friday, 9/30/11.
Can you say...smorgasbord?
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Post by Kathy D on Sept 22, 2011 1:27:57 GMT -6
Persimmons are ripe.Elderberries are almost gone. Pecans are not quite ready. Figs and pears ended in early August.
Right now we are in fishing mode. Got the camper parked on
Grand Isle for the fall months. Red fish, Founder, Speckled Trout, crab and shrimp are running right now. Got the freezer filled and had to buy another one.
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Post by FOTH on Sept 23, 2011 7:16:43 GMT -6
Such bountiful variety all across the country! AlaskaSue, great to hear that you'll be able to harvest some honey this year. That's exciting! And hope you get your moose, too. Grantmeliberty--gooseberries are a real treat. You'll see the occasional bush of them around here, but what we do have a lot of is currants, even way up high. A little past time for them right now, but earlier in the year they were pretty plentiful. KathyD and Fishinmagician--Coconut palms, figs, pecans, sea grapes and a multitude of fish and other water-dwelling creatures--sounds like you have a bounty to harvest from down there, too, and so different from the types of things that grow/live here in the mountains. Though it is almost elk season, here... |
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Post by FOTH on Oct 2, 2011 12:49:25 GMT -6
While I was out cutting wood yesterday I saw that the shaggy mane (also called inky cap) mushrooms were just starting to come in. Most of them were still too small to harvest, but the time is coming!
Some years, I've collected an entire paper grocery sack of them from a small area under the aspens, which seem to provide the ideal growing environment for them. I like them cooked up with eggs, in soup and some years have even been able to dry them for use through the winter.
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Post by FOTH on Oct 19, 2011 15:10:25 GMT -6
The other day I cut a large patch of lamb's quarter that I'd left through the summer to grow. Earlier in the year I harvested some of the leaves for fresh greens and froze some for winter:  After enjoying the greens through the summer, I left the plants to mature and grow seeds. Lamb's quarters ( Chenopodium album) are related to quinoa, and the seeds, while smaller, taste similar.   This is the system I rigged up for catching the seeds as they're released from their pods.  In a few days the seeds ought to have all collected in the bottom of that "tent," and will be ready to use! Has any one else harvested wild seeds/grains this fall? |
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Post by thefishinmagician on Oct 19, 2011 19:32:36 GMT -6
Has any one else harvested wild seeds/grains this fall? Nothing this fall yet, but I've harvested the seeds from my Purslane plants throughout this Summer. I don't use the seeds for anything other than replanting and growing new plants. I know it's supposed to be an excellent seed/grain to use for cooking and eating, though...I just haven't had the need or desire to try it on it's own yet. |
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) like the Fishin Magician's able to get. Would sure love to try out some acorn meal cakes with that honey!