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Wild Green Onions and Other Things Foraged
Posted on 5/4/14 at 2:48 pm
Posted on 5/4/14 at 2:48 pm
So I was about to tackle the weed infestation that is my backyard and noticed that some of the greenery sprouting in random spots looked familiar. Pulled a few out and sure enough, I have about fifteen green onion bunches.
The wife says there's no way she'd eat them but I say they're edible. Google agrees with me.
Anything else I may be overlooking back there? I also have a few miles of woods behind the house as well so I could go foraging if it's worth it.
The wife says there's no way she'd eat them but I say they're edible. Google agrees with me.
Anything else I may be overlooking back there? I also have a few miles of woods behind the house as well so I could go foraging if it's worth it.
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Posted on 5/4/14 at 2:51 pm to StringedInstruments
Posted on 5/4/14 at 3:04 pm to StringedInstruments
IWEI
This post was edited on 5/4/14 at 3:05 pm
Posted on 5/4/14 at 3:09 pm to StringedInstruments
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Anything else I may be overlooking back there?
Shrooms mon.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 3:24 pm to CT
I know people in south Louisiana that harvest the wild plants that gigantic stickers on them. The plant has large flat leaves and the stickers are on the edges of the plant. When the weed is mature it has a white "flower" that looks like dirty cotton. People tell me that they clean the plant and remove all the leaves. They are left with a stalk that they put salt on and they claim that it tastes just like celery.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 3:28 pm to Gris Gris
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Did you read this article?
Just did.
They smell like onions...sweet, delicious green ones.
I know around these parts watercress grows along the Cahaba, but I'd love to know how to locate more wild fruits and vegetables. The forager section of Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore Dilemma was one of the more interesting food chapters I've ever read.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 3:46 pm to StringedInstruments
Chantrelle mushrooms interest you? I am aware o them growing as close to BR as the Abita/Tickfaw region and had a source in BR that my stupid F'ing landlord killed off by removing the tree stump that they grew upon at the south side of the campus.
ETA dandelion greens(used in spring time mixed salads) should be in every ones yards.
ETA dandelion greens(used in spring time mixed salads) should be in every ones yards.
This post was edited on 5/4/14 at 3:50 pm
Posted on 5/4/14 at 4:00 pm to StringedInstruments
Must be good to eat then. Lucky find.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 4:02 pm to StringedInstruments
spring clover is delicious
Posted on 5/4/14 at 4:13 pm to StringedInstruments
I've got a LOT of wild green onions growing in my yard. Ya wanna know why I don't eat them? Because the stuff is cheap as dirt in the grocery store and I don't need to take a risk. Same with my mushrooms.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 4:25 pm to avondale88
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I know people in south Louisiana that harvest the wild plants that gigantic stickers on them. The plant has large flat leaves and the stickers are on the edges of the plant. When the weed is mature it has a white "flower" that looks like dirty cotton. People tell me that they clean the plant and remove all the leaves. They are left with a stalk that they put salt on and they claim that it tastes just like celery.
What you are describing is something we used to call thistle. As a kid we would harvest a whole bunch of this stuff in the Bonne Carre spillway and clean it and pickle it. It does taste similar to celery, but not as bitter.
We liked it.
Here's what it looked like after cleaning it:
Posted on 5/4/14 at 4:45 pm to ruzil
We call it choudrant.
Theres a cow pasture full of that behind my house.
Theres also a nut/seed that growsfloating plant flowers in the marsh but I cant think of the name of it. We also pick wild mushroom....... we call them champions pronounced the French way 'shan pe ons'
Theres a cow pasture full of that behind my house.
Theres also a nut/seed that growsfloating plant flowers in the marsh but I cant think of the name of it. We also pick wild mushroom....... we call them champions pronounced the French way 'shan pe ons'
Posted on 5/4/14 at 5:29 pm to CHEDBALLZ
*champignons
Posted on 5/4/14 at 6:11 pm to avondale88
quote:Chadron
I know people in south Louisiana that harvest the wild plants that gigantic stickers on them. The plant has large flat leaves and the stickers are on the edges of the plant. When the weed is mature it has a white "flower" that looks like dirty cotton. People tell me that they clean the plant and remove all the leaves. They are left with a stalk that they put salt on and they claim that it tastes just like celery.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 6:16 pm to John McClane
eta: nvm
This post was edited on 5/4/14 at 6:17 pm
Posted on 5/4/14 at 8:04 pm to StringedInstruments
Thistle
Big white mushrooms on dead willow trees
Blackberries
Wild plum
Muscadines
Maybe wild blueberries, I had some at old place I used to live at but don't usually find them in woods, north la fwiw
Are all good plants and berries to eat that grow wild around Louisiana.
Big white mushrooms on dead willow trees
Blackberries
Wild plum
Muscadines
Maybe wild blueberries, I had some at old place I used to live at but don't usually find them in woods, north la fwiw
Are all good plants and berries to eat that grow wild around Louisiana.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 8:28 pm to windshieldman
What about those little red berries that grow on the grown.."wild strawberries" I believe they are called. They're in yards everywhere. As a lad I recall foraging for those and wild blueberries in the woods by my grandparents' in Sweden. They could have been something different, but they looked the same.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 8:31 pm to Zach
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I've got a LOT of wild green onions growing in my yard. Ya wanna know why I don't eat them? Because the stuff is cheap as dirt in the grocery store and I don't need to take a risk. Same with my mushrooms.
I guess I get the 'why bother?' point. But what exactly do you foresee could be the "risk" in eating wild green onions? Mushrooms, sure.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 8:46 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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Mushrooms, sure
I could be wrong but I didn't think much of the mushrooms in La were poisonous, aren't most of the really bad ones out west? I do remember having some kind I had never seen that came up in front yard and smelled horrible. I wouldn't have touched them, I poured bleach on them and they died a few days later. They were growing in an area where grass doesn't grow well to begin with.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 10:21 am to windshieldman
Black berries the nectar of the gods in SELA. Their going to be ripe very soon(if not already) I just wish I had a good spot to rely upon for picking them. Cobblers and preserves for later in the year.
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