Springtime wild edible plants, learn it to survive .

The "spring starve" refers to the fact that most famine happens in spring because the last year's grain has run out and not much is harvested in spring. Good post opie.

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Haven't watched,just wanted to bed. And also add morels and pheasant back mushrooms. The difference between false and authentic morels is authentic morels are all one continuous mushroom piece. Falsies will have an inner stem around the cap. The real ones the spore surface is direct from the stem. You can find them both around the same time and I find pheasant backs very often.

Things are popping. Ground temp around 45°F for mo-mo's. Pheaant backs on wood near water or lowland.

*Re-spring starve

I think this is why so many fast during this time

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I don’t know much about mushrooms

Mushrooms are cool. We're pretty much in opposite ends of the country and that might have something to do with it. Things are just starting to get green and baby plants are showing. Mushrooms like anything else you gotta be careful about. There are some easier that are more noobie friendly like pheaant back and even morels if you understand it's main look alike. Others you can only tell by doing a spore print, or you really wanna do a spore print like for instance the deadly galerina verses the velvet foot or winter mushroom. There are differences but A complete novice tho .. it takes some time to learn and to some people a plant is a plant and a mushroom is a mushroom and that's as far as they go. Being detailed is pretty necessary on the tougher ones.

Kinda funny how much I did recognize from your vid. Not everything but still pretty cool a few zones away.

this lady shows the difference between cow thistle and wild lettuce...


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Awesome thread topic and video! I’ve been trying to learn about the weeds in my area.

I've been watching here. Not much up yet, but lots of promise. I've got a ton of mullein and plantain.

Up North, the cool weather turns the broadleaf plantain pink.

https://imgur.com/fLwegPc

And the hazelnuts are feeling frisky

https://imgur.com/8wKznIT

But it will be awhile before ramps and dandelions, nettles and mushrooms. It is a good time to prune the elderberries and put the cuttings into the ground if you want them to root. One of the easiest plants to propagate.

don't eat the yard bro

I've read that if you want to test a plant to see if it's ok to eat, you should first take a tiny piee, and place it up by your gums. Keep it there for at least a half hour. If by the end of the time, there are no rashes, or signs of irritation, take a larger piece (still small) and place it under your tongue. Wait another half hour. Then, if that's fine, take a bite of whatever it is, wait another half hour. If you're still alive, now you can eat it.

Yes..sometimes people take days and try ever increasing 'servings' to ensure safety.

Another important thing to remember when wildcrafting is to not deplete the resource. Always leave some plants/seeds/etc to regrow the next year.

My yard is a giant salad

Use some of that bastard cabbage,

and some son of a bitch carrots,

and some asshole acorns,

and some gawd damned dafodils,

OPs name is Toro Husquvarna.

Roots are food source

You got one right

Everything has been covered in nano dust. The earth is impregnated with nano dust. Animals, plants, water. There IS no escape.

Ya, I hate it when that happens….

A New Eullel Gibbons! God bless you

I laughed when he said he hoped the cat didn’t pee on it…I’ll have to finish the video later
thanks OP

That is bizarre

Omg, Stinging Nettle FTW! Thats my jam! These rains have all the plants doing a once in a century expansion around my place. Its nuts, looking at the cactus that have been here 80+ years doing their biggest shoots ever. I was just observing today on a walk how crap is just growing like gangbusters rn. I am in nw riverside county ca, reche canyon.

That sounds awesome

Looks like a primative star electrics doing im scared of dark eyes near me...,to evolve eventualy with a baby

Im happy i dont have to eat hutspot now it was a winter dish.

Interesting video. Thanks for posting.

I can’t make sense of what you said

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Poke weed !!

Hutspot don’t look that bad. I’ve never had it though.