Off to dance in the cold waters of a marsh, myself and eight friends piled into a big van and set out on our quest for wapato. Also known as Indian swamp potato or arrowhead, for its arrow-shaped leaves, wapato is a bulb-shaped root vegetable that grows underwater in wet mud. Conditions seemed almost preternaturally [...]
Posts Tagged ‘wapato’
Day Five: Oyster mushrooms and the wapato shimmy
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, wapato, Wild Food Week on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dancing for wapato
Posted in 1, tagged wapato, Wild Food Week on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Filmed by my friend Tony Deis, founder of TrackersNW Wapato was once a staple starch food of indigenous people in the Pacific Northwest. The fun way to get it is to dance in the water, loosening the muck it grows in to send the bulbs floating to the surface. This is the technique my friends [...]
Facebook
Twitter
- RT @harrisonmurray: #FF #OUTDOORS @firesideint @stw_survival @UrbanForager @GreenDeane @jmbushcraft @W6KNJ @mike_marlow @offgridsurvival 2 days ago
- Thank goodness for Western Coltsfoot with a little pedicularis. Those awful spastic coughs from a leftover cold were keeping me from sleep 2 days ago
- How to be Wild, Urban, and Totally Confused - new blog post. Please weigh in. http://t.co/Lf9ThSDH 3 days ago
- New blog post: Wild Medicine for the Cold Season http://t.co/tBlS5Xu0 5 days ago
Tags
