I hope we cane exchange ideas or recipes for foraged and edible plants here. I have been snacking on black nightshade, Solanum Nigrum, and this year made jam. It tastes like grape or blueberry jam. I added water just to cover the berries, sprinkled about half a spoon sugar on a cup of the berries, …

[image] elpatitojuan2: This explains everything then, I had thought there was literally a very poor diversity of plants that produce an edible part There are a high diversity of fruit plants, just not ones people eat.

[image] elpatitojuan2: I thing I never realized I wrote ‘‘thing’’ instead of think.

American Plums are ripe, and I’ve been taking crass advantage. I know that starting them from seed takes forever (years to maturity, unlike other species or varieties), but I’m saving the pits as I get the fruit ready to freeze, in the hopes that I can get some of my other gardening friends to make …

I’ve been enjoying autumnberries straight off the bush for the last month or so. Delicious!

I’m still enjoying the volunteer blackberries from my untended garden, although they have been frozen. I was thinking I’d like some this winter, but I can’t resist them now. The blueberries weren’t too plentiful so I only enjoyed a few, leaving the rest for those who live out there. Those wild berr…

[image] Thunderhead: twice the flavor of commercial berries. But if 0x0 is 0, it can’t be twice.

A lot of (city?) people think commercial blueberries DO taste of blueberry…but I get what you mean, math and taste don’t add right!

Trust me on this. Clovers. The big kind. The stems taste like sour apple candy. I’m dead serious. Just don’t eat to many or it may cause indigestion.

It’s been a great year for maitake here. I’ve been having them for dinner every few days, and also cooked and froze 18 quarts. They are one of my favorite mushrooms. I find the discussion of wild vs. domestic blueberry flavor interesting, because having eaten far more than my fair share of both, …

[image] roadside_rambler: Wild blueberries always just taste sweet to me when fresh - they are still fun to find, but a bit bland compared to domestic berries, which have a tartness and unique “blueberry flavor” that I do not detect in the wild version when eaten raw. In the Pacific Northwest…

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