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What edibles can be found in YOUR back yard?????
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Oklahoma Wildcrafting
Foraging in Oklahoma for edibles can be dangerous. I forage for my rabbits all the time, and although I know my backyard and neighborhood parks, I often wonder what I can find in the woods and around creek beds. Having had a lot of rain lately, I noticed quite a bit of mushrooms coming up. They usually pop up in the same areas season after season. I found the following website after googling EDIBLE MUSHROOMS IN OKLAHOMA. Who knew how much nature offered by way of edible plants! The following are just a couple of examples of edible plants that can be found all over the Great State of Oklahoma!
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Hmm I shall have to check it out,xx Rachel
ReplyDeleteBrandi, If you so much as touch a mushroom, I will do something really bad to you. I know that this comment might at some future time in the future become slightly incriminating, but mushrooms are virtually impossible to identify. I once heard of something called a spore print. I think you set the mushroom cap on paper and observed the pattern left by the spores. I can't take it, Brandi. The husband saw to it that Josh got his very own candle again yesterday. Now, if you go off eating wild mushrooms, there may not be enough candles in the world. I'll, I'll do something terrible! I'll knit you a burnt orange muffler! I'll knit you and your possum a burnt orange muffler...I'll, well, it will be teweeeble!
ReplyDeleteNo wild mushrooms for me. There are too many naturally occurring hybrids out there. You just never know what you are going to get.
DeleteI will stick with the good ole store bought button mushies. I do love my mushies.
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These are beautiful photos, Brandi. I wish we both could have had the rain. We are getting a little low on green stuff around here, but your pictures make me want to go out and touch plants.
ReplyDeleteI love the pony foot. When I first saw them, they reminded me of miniature water lilies. Now they remind me of pony feet. What a great name. Brandi, I want a pony and bunnies.
ReplyDeleteI want a miniature donkey and more bunnies. It is raining like mad right now. I am loving this cyclical wet summer. They do not come around very often. We were in a terrible drought. This summer has seen more rain than I can remember for many many summers. But it will not last. I watched a documentary on the Dust Bowl Days, and it was talking about these wet seasons that come around once every ten to twenty years. I almost dread this wet season, as it means things can only get worse from here. I must have a farmer's heart, all I think of is rain. When it's not raining, I am praying for it; when it is raining, I am dreading it ending. You should see how green it is. Lush is hardly the word. Braggadocio. That is the word. Green to the point of obscenity. My little paper-shell pecan tree is going to yield a bumper crop this fall.
DeleteThere is a season for everything under heaven...
A friend told me about a Dust Bowl special she saw a couple of years ago. She's from New York and not a farmer, but she found it terrifying and brought it up over and over during her visit. I did not know about these cycles.
ReplyDeleteWe love to eat dandelions which we get from the garden. They are super tasty! And of course we love grass.
ReplyDeleteThank you for commenting on our blog. We'll follow you now too! Our owner loves bunnies too!
(Blackberries!)
ReplyDeleteRG and Brandi, I have Escarpment Wild Cherries in my backyard. It has been a while since I read up on them, but I believe they are a unique species here in the hill country. The grow in little micro climes like protected hillsides. The largest one is over three stories high and covered in cherries. It looks red. Their bark is a beautiful smooth silvery color. All their fruit is reserved for the wildlife. It would be so unseemly to take a cherry from a little squirrel, right?
ReplyDeleteIf you throw rocks at the squirrels, they might leave your cherry tree alone.
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