When you say you’re going to eat sumac, people often respond with worry. “That’s poisonous!” they say. They are thinking of poison sumac, which is related but looks very different. Poison sumac has smooth leaves and spaced out white berries, while edible sumac has tightly clumped red ones and jagged, toothy leaves (as above). The [...]
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How (and Why) to Eat Sumac
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged Sumac on August 23, 2011 | 24 Comments »
Day Four: On sumac tea, conserving calories and collapse
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged Sumac, Wild Food Week on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The lessons I learned from the May experiment have served me well, and I have no doubt that I will make it to Day Seven with ease. I scouted my neighborhood in advance, so I don’t have much wandering to do. I also gathered as much as I could when it became seasonally available, like [...]
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