Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:30 pm Post subject: Re: Today I Found and Ate:
Damned! Others found one of my guerilla plant plots out in plain site. Even a guy I was driving mentioned he happened to find this stuff growing out in plain site and picked some. That's so much for that experiment maybe. Checked today and it was picked clean. But I got 150 pounds of vege's before they all discovered it. And this is Before hard times. I spent maybe 20 hours planting else wheres here and there, but had enough not to look and see. Now I will look and see.
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:11 pm Post subject: Re: Today I Found and Ate:
My daughter went out today and picked wild ginger, and made ginger tea and (well, she had to use store bought sugar) there is ginger candy now in our fridge hardening. She's 12 and really likes doing this kind of thing! I guess it's all my talk about PO that motivates her.
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 1:47 pm Post subject: Re: Today I Found and Ate:
Ever since I've learned of PO & began preparations I've been actively seeking out & experimenting with 'camaflouged' plants -- those that the general public considers a nuisance, but are unsuspected food sources. Just a few of these include: yellow dock, lambsquarters, pigweed, dandelion, purslane. sorrel, burdock, cattail, etc., etc.,
I haven't seen any ripe acorns in my area yet, either, but I haven't really kept my eye out. Lots of walnuts that look just about ripe, though, and the blackberries are nice and black.
Let us know how the leaching goes and how you went about it. I'd be interested. That's one food that I'd imagine 99.9% of people in my area overlook, despite the numerous oak trees around. The Indians in my area used acorns, though not as much as those in California. According to my ethnobotany books, the Indians roasted, boiled, and steamed acorns to remove the tannins. One book says the Indians of western Washington stored acorns in baskets of young maple bark and buried them in the mud all winter (I assume the ample winter rain we get plus the ambient moisture of the mud leached the tannins out). I also seem to recall hearing something about them leaving acorns in streams to leach the tannins out. A local guy is teaching a workshop on how to process acorns and make acorn pudding next month--hopefully I can remember to sign up.
3 lbs of acorns and 2 hours of work produced less than 1/3 of a pound of acorn meal.
For some reason it took me 5 boilings to leech out all the tannin instead of the proscribed 2-3 boilings. In anycase, I can't say that the meal is very appetizing. It kinda tastes like coarse, flavorless, canary seeds.
Tannin Laced water
Final Product
I don't think I would be turning to acorn meal for food unless I was starving. The sheer amount of work involved seems a bit much. It seems to me that it'll be an easier task to simply gather the acorns in a pile, wait for squirrels and rabbits to come eat the acorns and then shoot those animals for food!!!
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:26 am Post subject: Re: Today I Found and Ate:
I agree if you have a good way of trapping or shooting squirrels, letting them turn acorns into food is much more efficient. Gathering a few acorns as bait is probably more efficient use of calories than gathering many acorns to process. Clearly, the natives felt otherwise, as we can assume most of what they did was the easiest thing under the circumstances. For them, there must have been some advantage to eating the acorns instead of the squirrels. _________________ "...powerdown so soft and fluffy you'll think you're living in a pillow." - jboogy
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:41 am Post subject: Re: Today I Found and Ate:
Ludi wrote:
Clearly, the natives felt otherwise, as we can assume most of what they did was the easiest thing under the circumstances. For them, there must have been some advantage to eating the acorns instead of the squirrels.
Probably it was a lot trickier to catch a squirrel with bow and arrow or traps than with a scoped .22...
Oh I'm curious have you tried that sotol yet?
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:03 pm Post subject: Re: Today I Found and Ate:
Today I found loads of beans growing wild all over my yard. They climb up and on all sorts of other plants. They are in the raspberries, on the dogwoods, honeysuckle, wild grape, small trees, et cetera. I must have not noticed them before because the leaves look like poison ivy. It is ironic, because some of them are growing vigorously within feet of my dead garden where I had planted beans. I'm not sure if what I'm looking at is runner bean or pole bean.
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