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Post by 12540dumont on May 23, 2012 17:00:07 GMT -5
Here on the farm we have wild mulberries and plums.
There's also perish the thought, the roots of the phaseolus coccineus, not my beans she whimpers!
Grape leaves, black walnuts (if you can beat the squirrels to them). Squirrels for that matter.
Folks, I really hope it doesn't come to this. Or I might be eating those mushrooms myself.
My neighbor's children are fattening up nicely. I suppose that's out of the question though. I'm planning on planting lots more nuts.
My chestnuts are growing by leaps and bounds. I think we'll be using more nut flour and bean flour.
I have prickly pears in my yard. Hardly stealth, I have to beat away the folks driving down the road from picking them. Every time I go out and say "stop that". They tell me that they thought I wouldn't mind.
You think I can go pick the roses in their yard? What about their grapes? What about roasting their children? Yes, I mind. If you want to pick from my yard, you knock on the door and ask. Otherwise, I'm going to charge you by the pound and call the sheriff and have you cited for trespassing.
On Saturday there was a guy who came with buckets to pick my cactus.
Diogenes, Diogenes where are you?
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Post by davida on May 23, 2012 17:20:19 GMT -5
What a great name for a race horse. Bet it could win the Triple Crown.
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Post by castanea on May 23, 2012 19:32:43 GMT -5
I have prickly pears in my yard. Hardly stealth, I have to beat away the folks driving down the road from picking them. Every time I go out and say "stop that". They tell me that they thought I wouldn't mind. You think I can go pick the roses in their yard? What about their grapes? What about roasting their children? Yes, I mind. If you want to pick from my yard, you knock on the door and ask. Otherwise, I'm going to charge you by the pound and call the sheriff and have you cited for trespassing. On Saturday there was a guy who came with buckets to pick my cactus. Diogenes, Diogenes where are you? That is really interesting. I have never seen anyone here in northern California pick prickly pear fruit other than me. My neighbor across the street had a huge cactus with large fruit and wanted me to pick it so it wouldn't drop and mess up his yard. I've stopped and asked people if I could pick their fruit and they looked at me as if I were an idiot because they couldn't imagine anyone would eat it. There's a public area near Davis, California that has lots of different types of prickly pear and I don't think anyone has ever picked the fruit. I think it just depends on where you live and how knowledgeable the people are.
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Post by castanea on May 23, 2012 19:34:49 GMT -5
Cattail = Typha sp yeah? ..... And the number of people who approach me every autumn gobsmacked that I'm harvesting trees in public parks and roadsides 'what, you can eat them? you sure they are olives?.... T Yes, Typha. I have a friend who loves olives and we have wild olives and old olive trees all over this area. He picks lots of fruit and never sees anyone else picking it except one time when an agronomy professor was doing the same thing.
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Post by Drahkk on May 23, 2012 19:52:54 GMT -5
I get that reaction picking Cornelian cherries from the three in the landscaping behind our store. Invariably someone sees me and I have to explain that yes, they really are edible, and in fact quite sweet. Only one person has been brave enough to try them, even when they see me munching.
MB
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Post by oxbowfarm on May 23, 2012 20:13:12 GMT -5
Water spinach ( if you live were it doesn't freeze much ) Oaks and Chestnuts (castanea) I also read somewhere that Timothy is pretty easy to gather when its dropping seed and can be cooked similarly to teff.
Teff, proso, and foxtail millet would probably count as stealth crops too.
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Post by castanea on May 23, 2012 23:48:47 GMT -5
I get that reaction picking Cornelian cherries from the three in the landscaping behind our store. Invariably someone sees me and I have to explain that yes, they really are edible, and in fact quite sweet. Only one person has been brave enough to try them, even when they see me munching. MB I would love seed of a sweet cornelian cherry. I have two named varieties that are not sweet and a few seedlings that haven't fruited yet. Arbutus unedo (strawberry tree) also has fruit that most people do not know is edible. I like it. It's a small tree/large bush that grows in zones 8 and 9. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_unedo
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Post by castanea on May 23, 2012 23:50:26 GMT -5
Water spinach ( if you live were it doesn't freeze much ) Oaks and Chestnuts (castanea) I also read somewhere that Timothy is pretty easy to gather when its dropping seed and can be cooked similarly to teff. Teff, proso, and foxtail millet would probably count as stealth crops too. Oaks that have low tannin acorns are defintely a stealth food. these folks have some interesting ones: oikostreecrops.com/store/home.asp
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Post by Drahkk on May 24, 2012 4:03:51 GMT -5
I would love seed of a sweet cornelian cherry. I have two named varieties that are not sweet and a few seedlings that haven't fruited yet. Like blackberries they stay tart until they are completely ripe; only the deep red/maroon ones are sweet enough to eat fresh. It was still a surprise when I first found them. I started picking thinking I was going to make jelly and just tasted one of the darker, softer ones on a chance. Then I ended up tasting more than I took home. Our up today, down tomorrow goofy winter temperatures this past season got them all confused and they bloomed really early. Like October/November early. This sounds ridiculous, but I picked a bunch near the end of February. Didn't think to save seed at the time, unfortunately. I just checked them before I left work though, and I found what looks like new flower clusters forming in the back, in the shaded part of the trees. If they successfully put on a late crop I'll try to save you some. Otherwise it may be next year. MB
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Post by mnjrutherford on May 24, 2012 5:05:18 GMT -5
David, maybe a brand new breed of chestnut? What do you say Castanea?!?!
Holly,... LOL omg! you have me SO cracking up!!!!!!
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Post by raymondo on Jun 4, 2012 4:44:54 GMT -5
Collards! Don't laugh. Most people here have never heard of them, and those that have wouldn't recognize them.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Jun 4, 2012 5:13:23 GMT -5
Here they would! Everybody in this neck of the woods grows collards like their lives depended on it! yuck. =oP
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Post by castanea on Jun 4, 2012 21:22:25 GMT -5
Collards! Don't laugh. Most people here have never heard of them, and those that have wouldn't recognize them. Here, they wouldn't know what they were. But in large parts of the SE US, everyone would know them.
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Post by steev on Jun 5, 2012 0:13:33 GMT -5
castanea, I thought you were out around Sacramento; lots of people in the Central Valley are from the South, though maybe 2 or 3 generations ago.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Jun 5, 2012 4:57:00 GMT -5
Collards didn't make it with them when they came. Least, that's what it looks like... Kinda interesting that now that you mention it. I don't think I've ever seen collards anywhere in CA. South, north, nor in the valley. My folks live in Merced, I've lived in Fresno and in Bakersfield... I've know LOTS of post southerners too.... I never thought about it. What DID happen to the collards tradition?
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