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RE: BLACKLIGHT SCORPION - Unedited and Awesome!!!
Yeah, the Sonoran Desert is really quite alive. Folks don't realize how much life is out there, and how much food! If you know what you're doing, you can graze as you're hiking.
That's great that you know some of the good things to eat there in the Sonoran desert, @anotherjoe! I harvested and ate a lot of mesquite pods, prickly pear pads and fruits, and summer weeds like common mallow. But I enjoyed the palo verde beans, cholla buds, and saguaro fruits, too. And then there are all the citrus, dragonfruit, dates, jujubes, and olives in town, too! One of my favorite was young tumbleweeds - they came up thick, all at once, in my yard, so they were easy to harvest when they were about 3 inches high. They were great just sauteed in a stir fry. I am determined to get some seed on my next trip down there and try growing them for microgreens - they are that good! Enjoy your local desert -- and scorpions! : )
I've not had the saguaro fruit yet, but have heard that it's great. Never had tumbleweeds. Didn't even know about eating them, but it makes sense to get them when they're young. We have a lot of purslane in our yard. And the amaranth is supposed to be good, but wifey is allergic.
One of my favorite snacks are the fruit from the barrel cactus. I don't know that much about the food sources available though... not nearly what I should.
Your wife is the first person I've come across who is allergic to Amaranth. That's too bad. I eat it regularly during the summer and I freeze a lot of it, too, for using it anytime of the year. It's a great green. You are lucky with all that purslane and barrel cactus fruit! There is so much out there -- we can't even learn about it all in our lifetimes, let alone eat it all! It won't stop me from trying, though! You, either, it sounds like! :D
Wow, I never saw these comment that you made to @anotherjoe when this post first went out. That's a lot of great info, and I like what you're up to!