FORAGING FINDS
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 7:00 pm
I liked the videos from Green Deane of eattheweeds.com, and I have found some items are edible or medicinal. I have some at home here; my favorite is purslane; looks almost like a jade plant.... wish it were more invasive like the inedible weeds! It's good in stir fry or salads; a slightly sour taste that makes me think I'm tasting the Vitamin C in it.
There's also amaranth but the one at home here is spiny and seems annoying to have to get rid of the spines. I haven't tried the bidens and am not totally sure how to identify some of the other potential ones. There's a type of bitter melon but they ripen too fast and they're only edible when green, and are small. Also have found pellitory; tastes like crunchy cucumber. Not really worth it to pull up a whole sword fern hoping to find the water chestnut type growths amongst the roots, but maybe will all the rain we're having, they might have a few on them.
There's also amaranth but the one at home here is spiny and seems annoying to have to get rid of the spines. I haven't tried the bidens and am not totally sure how to identify some of the other potential ones. There's a type of bitter melon but they ripen too fast and they're only edible when green, and are small. Also have found pellitory; tastes like crunchy cucumber. Not really worth it to pull up a whole sword fern hoping to find the water chestnut type growths amongst the roots, but maybe will all the rain we're having, they might have a few on them.