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Trogon
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I have two good sized pawpaw trees in my yard, that is about as far as I forage besides at the local farmer's market. Raspberries probably if I stumbled across a good patch.
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Blackberries, walnuts, ginseng, yellow root, morels, violets, dandelions and bittercress. In Arizona we also collected prickly pears and barrel cactus fruit. Mesquite beans are another option I never bothered with.
I have tried to grow pawpaws never had any luck.
I would get them up to a 3 years old and something would happen.
Get mowed over, horse eat it a pecan limb fall on them and kill them.
I just stoped trying lol
We do pecans
The only walnut we have are the black ones and there good. But not worth the aggravation to crack and hull.
I have planted some prickly pear by the fence to try and get the to grow the plant is doing ok but has not made the fruit yet
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@Flbt I tried digging very small pawpaws up for several years but they never survived. Our local county park district offered container grown natives for sale, bought these two. Over 20 foot tall. Raccoons will break the branches if not too thick. Have-No-Heart traps and .22 CB caps have cured that. If a good year, probably around a 5 gallon bucket worth? I have a neighbor who loves these, she gets all she wants. Letting the possums and raccoons eat them and drop their turds seems to help germinate them.
I tried to get pic of everything but the service is bad
i was told you could make a pawpaw bread that was better than banana bread why I was trying to grow them lol
Hunter-Habib
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I’m partial to wild blueberry pies. The ones baked by my daughter are my favorite, esp. with a nice dollop of vanilla ice cream on top.
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We have a lot of wild blackberries, i can pick all i want to in an evening. Enough for a couple cobblers or pies. Pecans also, depending on the year. I am sure if i needed to look harder there would be more food available but I don't have enough motivation for that.
Nice pie
Most of what they make around here are dubies. I think the north called them grunts
Bacilly cooked in there own syrup and dumplings added
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Finished leeks last week. Dandelion are coming now for dandelion wine.
skydiver386
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Morels, tis the season.
I still forage when I get the chance. Mulberries and blueberries are always worth picking when they’re ripe, and a good blackberry year is hard to pass up. Hopefully you get enough rain to make those blooms pay off. Freshly picked blackberries are probably my favorite of the bunch.
skydiver386
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Almost forgot, you can't be considered Podunk till you've had a Paw Paw.
Prickly pear!! I am trying to imagine a corner of the country where that is deliberately planted. It is a scourge in Texas.
Hunt anything
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About 90% of the food we have in our freezer was caught, killed or grown by us.
The only thing we “forage” would be the black berries, dew berries, scupodines and muscodines. We have a hundred or so blueberry bushes and my wife puts up around 15-20 gallons a year.
I don’t care for the mulberries so I let the birds eat them.
The only thing we “forage” would be the black berries, dew berries, scupodines and muscodines. We have a hundred or so blueberry bushes and my wife puts up around 15-20 gallons a year.
I don’t care for the mulberries so I let the birds eat them.
Field28
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This might just be a Southern thing.
This is Chinnybriar or Chaineybriar aka Wild Asparagus.
One of my Grandmothers used to take me in the woods to pick them. We would cook them like Asparagus. I remember one time when I was probably 12 or so, I shot half a dozen quail in the fields and woods near my Grandmother's house. That night she fixed a dinner of fried quail, chinnybriar and wild rice.
I still see them in the woods all the time, I always eat a few raw when I come across them. The chinnybriar that is, not the quail! Don't see them much anymore.
This is Chinnybriar or Chaineybriar aka Wild Asparagus.
One of my Grandmothers used to take me in the woods to pick them. We would cook them like Asparagus. I remember one time when I was probably 12 or so, I shot half a dozen quail in the fields and woods near my Grandmother's house. That night she fixed a dinner of fried quail, chinnybriar and wild rice.
I still see them in the woods all the time, I always eat a few raw when I come across them. The chinnybriar that is, not the quail! Don't see them much anymore.
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I'm not sure if this qualifies as "wild" but I found a couple of pepper plants in my garden I didn't plant. "Volunteer" plants I'm guessing. If you like hot sauce and like growing your own peppers, fermented hot sauce is amazing! That jar rig was about four dollars. (No! It's not a water bong! You know who I'm looking at!)
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