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RE: STEEMIT CULINARY CHALLENGE #5 : Wild Sheep Sorrel Weed Soup with assorted homegrown chili peppers - 100% original foraging and cooking!
This soup must be good, I also prefer to saute the vegetables in olive oil before adding water, it gets more flavored! :) ! I noticed that you referred to the invasive status of Rumex acetosella in the USA. Good luck on the challenge, upvoted!
Thanks! I'm a fan of "Exotics Eradication Through Utilization" or EETU. I just need one more word at the end that starts with a 'P' and then it would be: EET UP! lol. I like eating weeds, because it's OK to pick as much as we want. native plants take a lot more consideration of how much is OK to harvest, and where we are. In my city parks, nobody is upset when someone is harvesting an exotic invasive plant!
Could it be "Exotics Eradication Through Utilization Project" ?!
Yay! That's great! Let it be known on the Steemit blockchain that @liliana.duarte completed the acronym, lol, for EET UP! Exotics Eradication Through Utilization Project. I better write a foraging articles pretty soon. :D
That's great!! If you write about this, make sure that you'll advise people to be aware of the foraging methods. it's important that when someone is collecting an invasive species, that it doesn't contribute to more propagation!
That is a whole topic itself! There can be such arguments about people wanting to spread some invasive species, because they are good for food. As they say, "Don't get me started!" People around here have spread Japanese Knotweed and wild fennel, especially - ugh. I like to eat them both, but that doesn't mean I want it all over the place. I went on a tour of the Sacramento Delta in California and the state agencies there are fighting people that want to spread the Chinese Mitten Crab, because some people eat it. ugh. Thanks for the idea!
You focused on one of my main preoccupations with utilization of invasive species, in food, energy or whatever. There will be always someone who wants to make a profit with it...and that is very difficult to change. The only way, in my opinion, is first to get people aware of the problem, as much as possible, and have faith that their conscious will work!
That sounds like a good approach. Awareness is the first step, for sure!