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Getting to know Wild Edibles.....
david w.:
--- Quote from: jamie on May 19, 2009, 11:08:33 am ---check out your lawn and learn the different edibles there. its a great place to start and its right outside your door. it also carries some of the most nutritious plants you can find. dandelion, plantain, burdock and many others. also look for cattails and phragmites near the ponds and lakes. . should always be careful about pesticides and fertilisers, and other pollutants. but i figure even with that garbage most of the wild foods are still healthier than the store bought garbage. peace
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What are the edible parts on a phragmite?
jamie:
roots of phragmites can be used for flour. young shoots can be boiled and eaten. seeds if ya can get em. flour from the shoots. mash em and sift the flour out. very young shoots can be eaten steamed or raw. steamed is better just to kill off organisms
jamie:
pat if i boil next year ill keep ya in mind :)
Hillbilly:
My favorite wild tea is spicebush (Lindera benzoin.) Just break off a handful of twigs, boil them a few minutes, then let it steep a few more minutes and add some honey.
Outbackbob48:
Patrick, I just took a big hand full of leaves an stems an put them in a tea pot an heated water an let steep for a while, I kind of mint growing here is in wet seeps clay ground. Had a very menthol taste to it. Refreshing. Maybe differnt soils make it differnt as posted before, never drank any from other parts of the country. Later Bob
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