Challenge to all Survival Monkeys

By the way, queen Ann's lace is wild carrots, but by the time it flowers to reveal itself, the carrot has more or less turned into wood. It can be used for flavoring, but not much else. Best to Know where it is, this year, for next year.

 

It's a damn cornucopia out there.
Apples, acorns, pears, cattails, dandelions, peppermint (went wild and smells great when mowing lawn) ditto for the basil, queen ann's lace, wild carrot, hickory nuts, walnuts, beach nuts. Then there are the squirrels, chipmunks, groundhogs, raccoons, possum, deer, neighbors yippy dog and skunk. I'm not eating the last one unless I have to.

domestically there are rabbits, chickens, ducks, turkeys free ranging in my yard.

and there is chickory for some fake coffee. for tea there is sassafras, stinging nettle and mullein.

I don't know why the hawthorns and wild roses didn't fruit this year but there would have been some vitamin C there. I guess I'll just eat the leaves of the black berries and raspberries if I'm feelin' the scurvy comin' on.

 

Within 100 yards, dandelions, cattails, and corn.

 

Black walnuts, Pecans, Hickory, Acorns, Yellow plums, dandelion, muscadine grapes (wild), apple trees, peach trees, cattails, mushrooms broad arrow head, blueberries, wild onions and garlic, not counting volunteer crops that have spread to the wood lines...

 

Fireweed, blueberry, watermelon berry, cloud berry.

 

How come you boys from the south don't know you can eat kudzu?

I will list what most ppl consider weeds but all of these are edible, most of these are medicinal as well.
Chickweed
Purslane
Nettle
Lambs quarter


Plantain


Holly Hock
Nasturium
Pinon, nuts and bark
Juniper
slippery elm
wild yam


morchella mushrooms

There is food everywhere.

 

Used to pick and eat lambs quarters when I was a kid growing up back east, wild asparagus too. Asparagus was usually found growing along fence lines where birds would drop the seeds.

None around here though

....and forgot about Juniper (thanks G) berries up at the BOL. Place is covered in junipers and pinion pines (pine nuts), as well as scrub oak that bears acorns that have a buttery flavor. Some varieties of acorns are bitter, not these.

 

Cattail, acorns, wild onions, pine nuts, pine bark, pine needle tea, bamboo shoots, muscadine grapes, wild blackberries, walnut sap syrup and walnuts are all on my place. And of course grass, which you can eat if you have to.

 

I'll be planting muskedines soon, Pecan, Satsuma's, Have Cumquats, Cattails, Blackberry's, Acorns plenty, Big azz 9 pt. Plus other's that will make sausage, Raccoon's that are corn fed. Planning on a dozen chickens and a rooster.
2 acre pond in the plans'
Nothing Here to Declare, Sorry.

 

@Gator 45/70 muskadines. I have not heard if those in a long time. My grandmother made wine from those. It wasn't very good wine but it was drinkable. Thanks for that

 

Did I type muskadines? Sorry, Wild grapes that are sweet DO not grow wild in the South and yield 8–18 tons per acre, Sorry for the misprint.

 

Muscidines are what he is thinking of. And the wine is good awful that I have tasted.

 

That may be an opportunity. If the onions and garlic are not sprayed (organic) you might want to consider harvesting them for sale.

 

AO is area of operations. I didn't see anybody answer that.

 

Plantain, Purslane, Shepards Purse, Huckleberry, Black berry, Elderberry, wild Strawberry, Rose hips, Mushrooms,Crawdads and on and on.

 

In Central Florida we have date palms that are often overlooked. Plus cattails and Nasturtium .

 

Pecans, mesquite bean, acorn. wild onion, a few dewberries left. There's more but now I'm stuffed.

 

Dandelion greens, persimmons, and prairie crab apples. All of them have some serious pucker power, but I could use them for added texture with cat tail "mashed potatoes", or as a paste to smear on our native prickly pear, which seems to be everywhere, and makes me thankful for heavy leather boots.