Posted on 07/26/2014 10:24:00 AM PDT by blam
Thanks. I’ll take a look.
I don't know about that, every time my cat eats grass she ends up puking on my carpet.....
Wild oats are just about everywhere I go, growing as weeds by the side of the road.
As far as your average lawn is concerned, I would have liked to know how exactly one could consider that edible?
You probably won't be able to digest the grass in your front lawn, but if you let it go long enough something edible might turn up there. Check in a book first, though.
Heck, that's what my Dad ate when he was growing up.....Right before he walked ten miles to school, in the snow, with bare feet, uphill (both ways).
I made acorn bread about 30 years ago. Lot of work. I remember having to “leach” the bitterness out of the acorns.
I never tried it, but read somewhere (long before google) that a tea or tisane can be made from staghorn sumac not to be confused with poison sumac, totally different plants. One is more of a tree and the other a bush. I just looked it up on google and it’s called Indian Lemonade or Tea.
Not here, unless I am missing something. Here we have several varieties of pine and some oak trees, along with the occasional dogwood trees. Sometimes, rarely, you can find some wild apple trees or blackberry bushes, and the only thing that grows on lawns that might be slightly edible is dandelions -although I have never tried. Since I always get a slight rash whenever I work on the lawn and trimmings, I do not think I should take a chance that dandelions might fare any better in regards to personal health.
More detailed information on exactly how to subsist on pine products might be helpful, however, since I do not know personally anyone who harvests them for eating. Mostly mature trees for the lumber, younger pines for the seasonal Christmas Trees, and pine needles for good firestarting stock.
Bananas are worthless. Once you skin them, and throw away the bone, there’s nothing left!
I can’t recall who said that. Some comic? Redd Foxx?
Euell "Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible" Gibbons.
He died shortly after making the Grape Nuts commercial that made him famous. The joke was that he choked on a pine cone.
That was almost forty years ago. This makes me feel really, really old all of a sudden.
You’re not the only one. I remember Funny ‘n Glare (Sonny and Cher, for those of you who never read Mad Magazine) did a short spoof of his GrapeNuts commercial that had him repeating the “You ever et a pine cone?” line in it.
If not properly prepared Polk Plant aka Poke Weed is poisonous, if not deadly. Re-checked this on google, because I was sure I had read this many years ago, probably in a book on New England wildflowers and plants that I used to have.
I seem to remember that Euell Gibbons died of stomach cancer when in his 50s.
Euell Gibbons picnic = find a shady spot and eat it.
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