[ncnascarlady]

Stinging Nettles. I've never tried them but here's some info

How to Forage Stinging Nettles | Wild + Whole

If you’ve ever accidently grazed against a stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) with your bare skin, you’ll know it. You’ll first feel a stinging sensation, quick and sharp, and then your skin will start to blister. The accompanying pain and itch can last for days. This is all thanks to the hollow...

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[ncnascarlady]

And Milkweed...

How to Forage Milkweed | Wild + Whole

Milkweed is a shining example of why we shouldn’t believe everything that we read. It carries with it, to this day, many myths that have traveled from mouth to ear and onward without fact-checking or personal experience. Myth number one is that it’s toxic, myth number two is that it’s bitter, and...

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[Get Out]

If you know of wild fruit, berry or nut producing plants or trees in your area, don't forget to feed them too. My grandmother would go out just before spring and feed wild plants and trees to help them produce a better-quality fruit or nut. She'd cast fertilizer on the uphill side of blackberry bushes and drill small holes around hickory and walnut trees putting fertilizer in the holes. She'd then harvest the fruit for jams and nuts for the winter.

I'll do that today when I find oak trees, wild grapes or other mast trees in the woods. I'll go back in the fall and hunt deer and squirrels when they're attracted to the mast fall.

 

[PaleHawkDown]

I wonder if this would work on other berries:

 

[El Cabron]

Here is a cookbook, from an expert on alternative food sources.

 

[blue fox]

Here is a cookbook, from an expert on alternative food sources.

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Well played Sir, Well played.

 

[Wicked109]

Here is a cookbook, from an expert on alternative food sources.

"To Serve Man" is the 24th episode of the third season of the anthology series The Twilight Zone, and the 89th overall. It originally aired on March 2, 1962 on CBS.[1] Based on Damon Knight's 1950 short story of the same title, the episode was written by Rod Serling and directed by Richard L. Bare.[2][3] It is considered one of the best episodes from the series, particularly for its final twist.

I was 8 years old when I watched this program...that's the day I became a conspiracy theorist...

 

[Cyrano]

Stinging Nettles. I've never tried them but here's some info

How to Forage Stinging Nettles | Wild + Whole

If you’ve ever accidently grazed against a stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) with your bare skin, you’ll know it. You’ll first feel a stinging sensation, quick and sharp, and then your skin will start to blister. The accompanying pain and itch can last for days. This is all thanks to the hollow...

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Some Benedictines serve nettle soup on Saint Benedict's saint's day. The claim is the nettles won't sting you if you grasp them firmly; but smart people wear leather gloves when they pick them.

 

[animalspooker]

^^^ Smart people don't pick em!