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found under a woodchip pile in north-central minnesota. my dad says "didn't have a plant attached. it doesn't smell like anything offensive, just dirt. isn't notably firm or soft" #gardening#foraging#fungus#wildcraft
My friend, Tom, is a private #gourmet chef & he also teaches about #WildFoods#foraging, harvesting from wild nature & cooking with wild foods. He taught a seaweed #ForagingWorkshop recently, at Whiffin Spit.
Check out his website, for info on past & upcoming events. Next #EducationalWorkshop is in late June - Cooking In Nature.
Is there a better time of day to pick leafy greens? Or a different part of the life-cycle? Maybe they need more water or nutrients or something, the ones I'm growing always seem to be thin and floppy, not great to chew, like the leaves could be crunchier, crisp? #gardening#foraging
But apparently the leaves contain hydrogen #cyanide gas?! Wikipedia cites a source that says "the cyanide is easily sidestepped by chopping up the plant, which releases most of the gas in a few minutes. Soaking and cooking it also reduces the cyanide to negligible levels".
Does anyone have good sources for learning how to eat #GarlicMustard safely? (Or for #foraging safely in general?) I'm just mildly alarmed because the first websites I looked at discussing eating garlic mustard did not mention cyanide or safety at all.
How well chopped does the plant need to be? How long must it sit before eating? How important is ventilation in the room, if you're releasing a toxic gas? What soaking and/or cooking procedures are required to make it safe?
AI-generated books on Amazon now have the potential to kill people, as they've moved into the realm of mushroom foraging. Guides have popped up like, well, mushrooms, packed with information that makes no sense and could easily be dangerous, illustrated with structures that are "the mycological equivalent of a picture of a hot blond with six fingers and too many teeth," writes Vox's Constance Grady. Here's more.
Today we harvested three-cornered leeks from a hedge. They're an invasive species tasting like garlic. After harvesting I chopped the bulbs and we made a pickling solution with freshly chopped ginger, celery and mustard seeds and white wine vinegar. Then we blitzed the rest, mixing in cashews and pine nuts to make a pesto before adding table salt to make a brine and transferring to jars to ferment for a few days. We'll use the left over pesto mix tonight. #food#foraging#pickling
It is just as well that the seeds of Dandelions are so infertile!!! But having deadheaded a great number, we have enough for the first couple of batches of Dandelion ‘honey’ of the season. Goes very well with lots of things, although I love it in yoghurt and porridge.
I'm not confident I can identify shepherd's purse before it flowers! I'm pretty sure the plant in this photo is shepherd's purse, a human on iNaturalist confirmed my ID; but young plants seem hard to tell apart. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/206691797
The results of Sunday's foraging and productivity: wild garlic hummus; wild garlic pesto; and linguine aglio e olio, where the aglio is provided by wild garlic leaves.
The flowers and leaves are edible but too cute to eat. But in case you are wondering, the flowers taste like lettuce with hint of cucumber and leaves taste like lightly peppery cucumber.
Folx into #Gardening and #Foraging I’ve heard that one shouldn’t harvest dandelions near roadways or lawns that are treated for weeds due to potential toxins in them.
Does anyone have a reputable source that confirms or disproves that?
And to what degree that would affect future generation plants if one were to collect seeds from wild dandelions in such places and grow them in containers?
Context: I live in a large urban area and would like to try growing dandelion microgreens.
Pollinators love them, in fact they are one of the earliest sources of food in the spring, they are as cheerful as little sunshines and delicious to eat (the whole plant in fact is edible: flowers, leaves, roots): dandelions #plants#weeds#foraging#pollinators
Aralia spinosa, devil’s walking stick: leaf buds and mature leaves are edible. Buds taste like broccoli/brussel sprouts (w/o bitterness), leaves taste like salad green + asafoetida. Dried berries give me slight allergic reaction but ppl use it as a pepper substitute.
Washington Post: Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you
"Now, a new assortment of AI-powered mushroom identifiers are popping up in the Apple, Google and OpenAI app stores. These tools use artificial intelligence to analyze photos or descriptions of mushrooms and compare them to known varieties....With its high stakes and frequent mess-ups, mushroom identification is a bad candidate for automation, but companies are doing it anyway..."
(maybe paywall)
Oh look, I've been ignoring a plentiful, edible food source in my garden! 🤔 "Land Shrimp!"
Although.... 😱
"Let’s stick with Pillbugs for two good reasons. Those are the only ones that roll themselves into a ball, and they are the most edible of the lineup... "
Yesterday out in the fields: "Dad, watch out for all that stinging nettle!"
Me (grabbing many handfuls) "Hey! It's breakfast and tea for tomorrow, yay!" #foraging
Friends gifted me some dried candy cap #mushrooms (Lactarius rubidus) they foraged. Thinking about grating them into some cream cheese frosting for the butter pecan cake I made, or maybe I should do something else with them? 🤔 Pretty rare and special gift, I'm pretty sure they don't grow here, so thinking of a good way to appreciate them fully. 🤔 #cooking#foraging#foray
I’m a forager, and I teach people how to forage honourably. A few years ago, I was offering folks an educational walk to teach people what they could eat for free in the area, and some dude told me I shouldn’t forage as it was bad for the environment. Apparently Indigenous people’s traditional food gathering is why the environment is so shite now, and not the monocultures, factory farms, feedlots, and slaughterhouses. Riiiight. What a douche canoe. #FoodSovereignty#foraging#UrbanForaging#IndigenousMastodon#Indigenous