Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Augie; Pollard; Diana in Wisconsin; All
YouTube video of edible fruits that are no longer widely grown. (Rhubarb, gooseberry, currents, mayhaws, pawpaw, medlars, eldeberry, and mulberry are some of these fruits.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdlolIJ5u9U

The same group does this on "Vegetables" illegal to grow, things like Giant Hogweek and and Japanese Knotweed, Kudzu and Purple Loosestrife. ("Vegetable" Here is used very loosely... A lot of these are waterweeds of dubious edibility (to my thinking) that will quickly turn ponds into sphagnum beds!

25 Vegetables illegal to grow

477 posted on 09/18/2025 6:08:09 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 476 | View Replies ]


To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Some of the fruits I researched for possibilities to plant here. Some are either standard agroforestry fruits or being researched for agroforestry.

* Elderberry
* Aronia
* Black/Golden Currant
* Honeyberry
* Juneberry aka Serviceberry
* Persimmon
* Plum
* Mulberry
* Paw paw
* Hardy Kiwi

And of course all the commercial berries. Got lemons? Make lemonade. Got acidic soil? Grow berries.

Things growing wild on this property when I got here: Blueberry, Deerberry, Serviceberry, Cherry. Things growing wild within a 5 mile radius: Blackberry, Persimmon & Plum. Paw paw grows wild in MO but not close by that I know of.

I got to eat exactly one ripe fruit of each, blueberry, deerberry and serviceberry. Birds and deer generally got them all before ripe enough for human consumption and the goats killed off the blueberries and deerberry.


479 posted on 09/19/2025 1:51:24 AM PDT by Pollard (Search -- Downgraded)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 477 | View Replies ]

To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

I’ve watched that video before. Waiting on my pawpaws another week or more to go.


481 posted on 09/19/2025 4:30:41 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 477 | View Replies ]

To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
Here's a local 'waterway' clogged with Cattails and Joe Pie Weed. Made for a nice photo on a foggy morning, though!


487 posted on 09/19/2025 5:59:41 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 477 | View Replies ]

To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Im sure you know enough to be careful but I cant help but emphasize the point having watched the videos. A bunch of the stuff he says is nonsense and a number of the examples he shows are similar in appearance but different plants which could lead to problems.


528 posted on 09/20/2025 11:03:50 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 477 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson