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Day Seven: A wild Thanksgiving

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , on November 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Together, my forager friends and I spent five hours preparing our wild Thanksgiving feast. We sipped lemonbalm tea as we worked, crafting a colorful spread of nourishing foods that were totally local, money-free, and produced 100% compostable waste. Most impressively, our dinner actually tasted good! I never would have guessed it, but boiled rose hips [...]

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Day Six: The challenge of palatability

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged on November 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Emily preparing rose hips Identifying, locating and gathering enough wild edibles is only half the challenge of living on them. Figuring out how to process them efficiently and then prepare them in a way that makes them palatable has been an interesting quest. Click here to read the rest on CultureChange.org

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Day Five: Oyster mushrooms and the wapato shimmy

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

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