The park a few blocks from me has 3 massive old chestnut trees in it. I collect like 5 to 10lbs of chestnuts a year from them. I'll see people filling 5gal buckets. I just take a plastic freezer bag lol.
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Squirrels taste like chicken.Has anyone gotten into it? Seen some chatter online about it. Kinda intriguing. Seems like a good way to snack.
Pretty cool way to find edibles near you.
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I keep reading this thread title as "Unban foraging" and I originally was confused anyone would ban foraging in WoW and when I realized what it actually said I thought it was another term for "Dumpster diving".
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iannis
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This sounds like hippy shit.
I let the neighbors pick blueberries if they want. Don't care. Most years there are way more than I can pick. I generally grab 1-2 bushels to freeze and that's not even half of them. Makes good cobbler.
The birds eat well.
I let the neighbors pick blueberries if they want. Don't care. Most years there are way more than I can pick. I generally grab 1-2 bushels to freeze and that's not even half of them. Makes good cobbler.
The birds eat well.
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Ok farmer.
You don't technically own that land. We all are children of the earth thus we all are responsible for it.
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Pecans and blackberries are the only things I've "foraged" that I hadn't actually grown myself, and done so only with the property owner's permission if it wasn't public land. There's a massive amount of blackberry bushes at a park near my home.
If you've ever had a pecan tree on your property you almost have to beg folks to pick up all the shit it drops to keep from fucking your grass. Which is a losing battle.
There's not much else I'd trust to eat that was growing wild. Biting into an apple and seeing half a worm would suck. Also, aphids are horrible and consistent on "organic" pesticide free vegetables, even store bought. Especially celery. They're apparently edible, but fuck all that.
If you've ever had a pecan tree on your property you almost have to beg folks to pick up all the shit it drops to keep from fucking your grass. Which is a losing battle.
There's not much else I'd trust to eat that was growing wild. Biting into an apple and seeing half a worm would suck. Also, aphids are horrible and consistent on "organic" pesticide free vegetables, even store bought. Especially celery. They're apparently edible, but fuck all that.
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I went to a job interview 5 years ago in Ancortes, WA. We drove out to a raied hill that had a view of the water coming in and were just talking. They had blackberries. I picked a few and started eating them. I didn't need to wash them. Guy had a shit fit OMG eating something growing out in the world that didn't come from a store.
I didn't take the job. Pretty sure I wouldn't fit in.
I've eaten a lot of blackberries and muscadines I've picked up here and there. Pecans I had pecan trees at the house so I used those. I let others pick up the pecans and I get a share. They win and I win, not having to pick up all the pecans. I had tons of them.
Have blueberries now but I'm not a big fan. Dad picks and eats them all. Not that urban.
I didn't take the job. Pretty sure I wouldn't fit in.
I've eaten a lot of blackberries and muscadines I've picked up here and there. Pecans I had pecan trees at the house so I used those. I let others pick up the pecans and I get a share. They win and I win, not having to pick up all the pecans. I had tons of them.
Have blueberries now but I'm not a big fan. Dad picks and eats them all. Not that urban.
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I keep meaning to put up a sign for that.
I have been swapping my gardens over to all either "edible" and/or native plants. Have 7 blueberry, 2 kinds of rhubarb, about 300ft of strawberries, and ton of raspberry. 4 kinds of mint. grape. 2 large apple trees were on the property when I bought it. pretty sure one is cortland, one is mcintosh, but im not certain. I planted a honeycrisp a year ago. and a barlett pear. that pear produced AMAZING fruit last year. Have a couple Hickory trees as well.
Pumpkins, decogourds, and sunflower are generally pretty consistent at re-seeding themselves yearly.
I also do tomatos, cucs, greenbeans, peppers, basil yearly. Watermelon from when I buy store watermelon, and throw out the rinds/seeds. haha.
I don't even eat the tomatos. I just give them away. (along with the overkill on everything else) Past years, I would put out a sign and "free". This last year, I put out the sign, "free, donations welcome" with a jar.
I made 75$ (i mean, not including cost, which time, fert, water, and seedlings cost more then that really)
Strawberrys/blueberrys/raspberry best left on the plant though. I need a sign saying, come get some.
Hickory is neat, cuase you can't really buy it. its a unique flavored nut. but getting at the meat is a pita, so no one really does it commercially. need your own, and a pair of pliers or a hammer.
All the state forests of CT, RI, MA are just littered with wild blueberry.
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