Green Deane Forum - Eat The Weeds

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

Tell us what wild foods you're finding now.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.