Meet the ‘weed eaters’: Urban foragers on a mission to diversify your diet

Hawaii News Now ^ | Jim Mendoza

[NWFree]

I’m just really not into edibles

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I’m sure that Selco can tell us all about the joys of grass soup.

These weed people are simply preparing us for the famines to come.

[PJ-Comix]

“Ever eat a pine tree?”

Euell Gibbons did and a lot more.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I am sure that some of that stuff is edible, but you would have to be careful about what you eat and where it came from. When I was a kid, one of my friends liked to sample weeds from the yard. There was one with a yellow blossom that tasted like pickles. My friend wound up with hepatitis.

[leaning conservative]

👍😂

[leaning conservative]

One year my dad made dandelion wine & they all exploded in the basement!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Our neighbors are huge mushroom aficionados. They pick mushrooms everywhere. They sprinkled spores of some of their favorites on their property and have a huge mushroom feast right outside their door.

[SoConPubbie]

They are not only edible, and some are tasty, they have potent medicinal properties.

[Kenny500c]

Poke salat

[from occupied ga]

Here in Arizona the pickings are less abundant

What? You mean you don’t eat cholla?

[packagingguy]

That’s why the colonialists brought them here from Europe in the first place, for salads. Wonder why we stopped eating them?

[jjotto]

There’s a reason why airlocks are popular…

[AnglePark]

Purslane. Lots of minerals, antioxidants and omega-3, and it’s probably growing in yoursidewalk.

[GaltAdonis]

"“Ever eat a pine tree?”"

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In the US Revolutionary War period soldiers made beer from
spruce needles - because that's what they had -

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Beer Drinking in the 18th Century - Revolutionary War Era

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Not twice.

[njslim]

Cattails - can eat the hearts, cooked called Cossack Asparagus, the green seed head can be boiled and eaten like corn, the pollen added to floor for pancakes
The roots can be peeled and the starch extracted from them

[njslim]

They made spruce beer from the bud tips - they are rich in Vitamin C to prevent scurvy

Learned it from the native tribes

[Larry Lucido]

I mean, at least scavenge someplace classy.

[GaltAdonis]

And British sailors got Vitamin C from limes imported from
Africa and other warm climate areas.

Hence the nickname: 'Limeys'.

[jmcenanly]

Our local grocery store sells the greens for salads. I never realized that they could grow to be that big.