Green Deane Forum - Eat The Weeds

Post photos of plants you can't identification, or ask even if you don't have a photo. Include in general terms where you live, when the photo(s) were taken, and other relevant information. Clear photos please. Limit of 4 photos per post, maximum size for all four 192kb, no individual photo over 128kb. When identified the title will be changed. Thumbs up generally can be used as food, thumbs down not. Thumbs down plants can, however, still have medicinal uses.

Tell us what wild foods you're finding now.

Edible wild plants and escaped cultivated plants, anything now feral are the topics here.

There are hundreds of edible flowers and this board is all about them and their use.

Lesser known edible creatures including the off beat or unusual.

Edible insects, you'll either try them or you won't, either way plenty of conversation.

The title says it all: North, South or Middle, coast or desert, Californai has some special foraging and foragers.

Cold and damp plants have to be hardy in the top of the northeast as do the foragers who have just a few months a year to rummage around.

Eastern mountains are special foraging area with significant changes in plants at various elevations.

It's a big state and can legally be made into four states, that's alot of area for foragers to covern.

This area includes all of the Rockies and the Great Basin, which has many of its own mountain ranges, and southwest region including some of southern California.

Do you live where it rarely or never freezes? This board's for you.

References are from mostly published, authoritative sources about edible wild plants. Websites of authoritative sources are also acceptable, such as Kew Gardens, Purdue University et cetera. No Wikipeida entries allowed because they are not trustworthy.

Beginning foragers can ask questions, get answers, and to learn the craft of foraging.

Projects for kids, advice on how to introduce kids to foraging, your own experience as a kid, information for boy and girl scouts and their advisors

A board for boy scouts, girl scouts, cubs scouts and their involvement with foraging.

Using plants as medicine is a lot different than foraging. Explore herbalism.

Survival foraging is a realignment of resource priorities and practices so that more calories is obtained from wild food than is lost getting the food... sustainable foragering as it were.

How do prepare and cook food without modern pots, pans and ovens? Here you learn how.

How did man get by without modern conveniences? Learn the skills, crafts, techniques of roughing it when roughing it was the only option.

Making cordage is a large speciality of a lot of interest and hard work.

Gathering today for tomorrow involves preserving. There are general methods and plant specific methods. Whether simple or elaborate, primative or modern, here is where we can share how to store our bounty.

Fresh and saltwater, rod and reels, cast nets, trot lines, traps, baskets, plants that send the fish to the surface.

Hunting and trapping and the means to do so.

A blizzard, a hurricane, economic depression, social unrest. Whether its big or small emergencies self-reliance can make a difference for you, yours and others.

Ones to eat, ones to avoid, not a drug hangout

Solar oven, solar friers, construction, use, recipies.

All about that great survivial and hand-me down material, cast iron.

The art and science of dumpster diving and dump picking. What are the tools of the trade, tips and hints, is it using a resource or being eccentric?

For those concerned with generating power in good times or bad. As this can be an electrifying topic causing sparks let's keep it civil.

Shy on time or want to plan ahead? This is board for you.

Here you can discuss topics such as passive solar home design, hay bale houses, chord wood houses, igloo construction, mud hut construction, roof thatching, wood roof shakes, short term lean-to type construction, log homes, teepee construction, solar panels, which is better -6 v sytems, 12v, 24v, 48v etc, differences between DC to AC converters, sine wave, modified sine wave etc, how to calculate how your energy, ghost battery drainers, pros and cons to lead acid batteries, golf cart batteries, gel type batteries best diesel generator for you dollar... get the most watts for your dollar... will wind turbines work in your neck of the woods? Et ali...

Landscaping property to produce food long term, either discretely so the neighbors don't complain or grandly with significant modification. Not garden.

Like many plants, weeds sometimes need special treatment to grow under cultivation. Learn how to grow weeds successfully.

It takes 10 years to become a good gardener. Here we share tips and experiences to make the journey better.

Come one come all, great and small recipes, critters to high cuisine. It is also a place to ask for recipes.

Got too many seeds of this and want seeds of that? Here's the place to place someone who wants your seeds and someone who has seeds you want. This is informal exchange and not for business to advertise. If you want to advertise buy an ad and help support the site.

Fermentation preserves calories, and often tastes good, too. And you can't make vinegar without some kind of alcoholic beverage. Discussions, how to, recipes.

Make a better produce for less. Share techniques. Maybe even get some kefir grains for free.

Do you make your own soap? Insect repellent? Toothpaste? Here's the place to share the means and your experience.

Did you make homemade chairs, baskets, pipes, horse shoes, bows? Tell us about it.

A place to chat. Keep it civil and clean. Be adult and remember kids read this forum, too.

A room for the foraging ladies. Men can participate but don't get teste. This is her place, her interests, her sensibilities, her topics, her views.

All about paleo eating, paleo exercise, the paleo diet, the caveman diet, and how wild food fits into that.

All things vegan and vegetarian about wild foods except raw food which has its own board.

Raw foodists often feel left out. Here's a board for you to discuss the topic and wild foods.

A place to say hi, chat, schmooze, woo, and also to mention upcoming gatherings, lessons, events, hikes, excursions et cetera.

Questions you can't find a place or answer for on the site.

Did you read something in the GD news letter that should be talked about more? Here's the place to post it.

What this board is about is kind of fuzzy. Darren posted some odd-looking plants -- genetic mutants or fungus distored ones -- or plants doing strange things. What type of posts it will engender is anyone's guess.