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RE: Reading the Landscape: Pennyroyal Wetlands - for SteemitPhotoChallenge 6
Thanks! I've been looking at Steemit from the outside for a few days. Your posts have been a big part of what convinced me to sign up. I'm appreciative of you being my first follower. PS: my parents live in Arkansas, so you will be seeing some photos from my visits there sometime.
WOW, to have you say that my posts were a big part of what convinced you to sign up is incredibly encouraging to me. I've only been here for 5 weeks, and I think it is going pretty well for me. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
Thanks for the offer to help. I appreciated seeing your comment to someone else about how it's OK for each of us to post about similar content, in our own way, from our own perspective and experience. That attitude is what builds community. I eat a lot of wild food and my own garden produce, so I'm looking forward to seeing the foraging and gardening communities grow here.
A good friend of the family (when i was growing up) wrote a book on edible wild plants. I'll see if I can find it amongst the clutter and send you the title. you may find it interesting.
Yeah, many have already shared about things like Dandelions and Lambs Quarters, for example, and many more probably will. Plus, how many smiitie recipes have been shared?
Let's all share our parts of the story, and allow others too as well.
That's so neat, @daiperhaiku! I'll look forward to finding out what book that is. Lambs quarter is my number one favorite wild green, hands down, @papa-pepper. But I eat a lot of dandelions, too. They are both prolific here, along with a lot of other weeds!
Here is a link to the book on Amazon. http://amzn.to/2bwPGwC
Thanks for the link, @daiperhaiku! That Elias and Dykeman book is one of my favorites. I've used my copy since it was first out in 1982. I really like its organization by habitat, by season, and by uses. And they have a lot of guidance about how to prepare different plants, which was really unusual at the time. Even though I started using their book when I lived in Michigan, it's still useful for me here in Oregon, because it covers the whole US, which was also unusual for foraging books back then. That's so neat that you knew one of the authors. If you ever see them again, pass along my gratitude and appreciation!
I will. I've known Dr. D (Peter) since i was 10 or so. He and his wife are great people. Fond memories of frog egg 'hunting' in the bogs near their home in early spring for his science class.