Foraging For Food And Medicine - Fruits, Roots and Leaves Use the Whole Plant

@builderofcastles: Are the people who gang rush into Walgreens in San Francisco foraging for medicine drugs? 😝

@owasco: I did not know that about strawberries, the sunburn business, and I've never seen salmonberries, but just today I identified thimble berries here in NYS. I wonder if the bracken fern can be used for worms in our pets. Fiddlehead ferns are pretty good. It's lovely that you have so many of those on your property. There is so much food in the woods! Nice road!

@libra.gardener: Amazing! I love that the starch of bracken can be used in such a way. If I am honest though my favorite part are the berries, so excited for our berry season to roll around!

@valued-customer: Salmonberries tend to fruit early, even before thimbleberries, around the same time as huckleberries in June. The tender shoots are edible, but there's not much meat on them, and blackberries are by far the better shoot. On the caneberries bearing thorns, it's necessary to peel the skin to remover the thorns, and that process doesn't leave much of salmonberries to eat. I was unaware that bracken was edible. I was told the spores were toxic and carcinogenic by someone somewhen, so I never considered it for a food, although I reckon when they're fiddleheads they're not sporulating. Thanks!

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