What do you like to forage? Calling all foragers!

[Sally PB]

My great grandfather called it pigweed

So did my mom, and so does a friend of mine.

There's another weed, sometimes called Red-rooted Pigweed, that is in the amaranth family, and it's also edible. The leaves get tough, so pick them early. Or steam them. I haven't tried that.

 

[Sequoia Raven Bird Farms]

So did my mom, and so does a friend of mine.

There's another weed, sometimes called Red-rooted Pigweed, that is in the amaranth family, and it's also edible. The leaves get tough, so pick them early. Or steam them. I haven't tried that.

Nice to know! It's called that because it was commonly fed to all farm animals, hence pigweed, lamb's quarters, fathen and more.

It's also related to quinoa too! Settlers and Natives alike used to harvest the seeds and make flour. Free lovely and healthy food.

 

[Sequoia Raven Bird Farms]

Barnette - I have read most people make a tea and drink that daily. But I am not a tea drinker, so what I do is dry the nettles, then powder them. I put them in gelatin capsules and take one a day.

I like to take the powder and put it in my pancake batter .
Herbalists call stinging nettle an anti-histamine. Histamines are what your immune system creates when it notices pollen or dog hair. To put it simply herbs like stinging nettle limit histamine production and stop the root of the problem.
It's pretty cool, a lot of other herbs do that as well.

 

[Backroadlogic]

 

[Sally PB]

Morel!

 

[hammyanne]

I love BYC because I seem to find my people!

I live in the Hudson Valley and I mostly forage the following:

Yellow oyster mushrooms
Chicken of the woods mushrooms
Chanterelles
Mulberries
Wild blueberries
Garlic mustard
Black raspberries

I love making mushroom risotto and pasta. The berries barely make it past the moment of harvest (straight into the mouth).

 

[Backroadlogic]

The same spot has given me one morel a year for 4 years torture

Guess the bloom? It's one you want to know if you don't already

 

[Barnette]

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We have morels and pawpaws here too!! Love them sm

 

[Barnette]

The same spot has given me one morel a year for 4 years torture

Lol

Guess the bloom? It's one you want to know if you don't already

Pawpaw

 

[Barnette]

I love BYC because I seem to find my people!

I live in the Hudson Valley and I mostly forage the following:

Yellow oyster mushrooms
Chicken of the woods mushrooms
Chanterelles
Mulberries
Wild blueberries
Garlic mustard
Black raspberries

I love making mushroom risotto and pasta. The berries barely make it past the moment of harvest (straight into the mouth).

I have a bunch of family in the Hudson valley!!