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Farm Kitchen:  What do you forage for?  |
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chickenjanedoe
True Blue Farmgirl
96 Posts
Sandy
Claypool
Indiana
USA
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 Posted - Mar 27 2011 : 08:41:38 AM
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Yesterday and this morning I made an egg and potatoe casserole/omolet(sp) for breakfast and on top I added the first wild onion chives of the season. I love them right now when they are still getting hit with frost at night and so the tops are all curly. Looks so pretty on things. :)
So I was wondering what do you forage for in the spring?
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Mar 27 2011 : 10:22:23 AM
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I love dandelion tea. So I am always out in the yard picking them. And I found a pocket guide to mushrooms. I can't wait to go in the woods and look for some wild mushrooms. I also found a few elderberry bushes out back that I used to make elderberry syrup. I also pick wild peppermint for tea. And I use plantain for bee stings and to make poultices for bites. Lots of good stuff growing out there. I will think of more later.
Also last fall I picked a bunch of wild rosehips and dried them for tea.
Kris
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Edited by - kristin sherrill on Mar 27 2011 10:23:18 AM |
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natesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1735 Posts
angela
martinsville
indiana
USA
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Posted - Mar 27 2011 : 10:24:24 AM
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Around here it's still too wet for much. I do hunt out plantain leaves for medicinal uses, but that's about all I know about around here. I like it better in late spring when I can pick violets for jelly, wild rose leaves and blackberry leaves for tea, and wild clover for jelly and tea.
Farmgirl Sister #1438
God - Gardening - Family - Is anything else important? |
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Mountain Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
806 Posts
JoAnn
Colville
Washington
USA
806 Posts |
Posted - Mar 27 2011 : 11:39:38 AM
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Since my husband is a retired mycologist mushrooms are at the top of the list.Then our favorite is huckleberries Jim makes jam from Oregon Grape berries. We make wine from elderberries, dandelions and huckleberries. JoAnn
Somebody ought to tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit every minute of every day. Do it, I say, whatever you want to do, do it now. Michael Landon |
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13666 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
13666 Posts |
Posted - Mar 27 2011 : 6:14:24 PM
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Asparagus . .later in the spring, early summer
In the mountains during the summer there are wild raspberries, strawberries and gooseberries. They're small berries but yummy.
You have to be on the watch for bears though, they like them too.
CJ
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Sunflower64
True Blue Farmgirl
173 Posts
Janie
Canton
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Mar 28 2011 : 03:35:59 AM
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Early summer, I go for the black raspberries!! My absolute favorite...make pies and jam with them. Would love to learn how to find morels though...
Janie
"The country way of life is the closest thing to heaven" |
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
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Posted - Mar 28 2011 : 03:41:15 AM
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We get pockets of wild huckleberries and a few sparce wild blueberries.
It's ahrd tho ' cause the animals know about them too. One minute the beries are green, and the next time they are all gone!
I have marked a few places so it makes return trips easier to find |
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forgetmenot
True Blue Farmgirl
3602 Posts
Judith
Nora Springs
IA
USA
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Posted - Mar 28 2011 : 09:27:22 AM
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fiddle head ferns, morels, asparagus, wild raspberries and grapes, gooseberries, chokecherries. And, soon, violets, dandelions, lambs quarters.
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the belief that something is more important than fear." Ambrose Red Moon |
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HollyG
True Blue Farmgirl
214 Posts
Holly
Hamburg
Arkansas
USA
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Posted - Mar 28 2011 : 12:20:12 PM
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Blackberries and muscadines are the top two around here. Reading your posts, I realize I have other things like violets and dandelions - and tons of clover...if I knew what to do with it.
HollyG
Farmgirl #2513
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Dorinda
True Blue Farmgirl
1023 Posts
Dorinda
St. Cloud
Florida
USA
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Posted - Mar 28 2011 : 2:46:38 PM
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Here I love walking in the woods and picking wild blackberries and blueberries in the spring and early summer. Then in August i like to look for wild grapes. They are little and grow wild on vines. When I was younger I would find suger cane growing in the woods. But I have not seen that in years. I wonder some times if that was left over wild stalks from the past Indian days.
Seize The Day!
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