I like free food even better. Lately, I've been learning a lot about free (or cheap) food. I'm becoming a hunter-gatherer -- okay, minus the "hunter" part. I've been learning about wild edible plants and mushrooms, making wine out of weeds, taking things a step further by growing my own garden, and "homesteading" it by making my own bread and pizza dough.
To be a successful hunter-gatherer, you have to know what's safe to eat. My first step in learning about this was joining a wild edible plants walk led by "Wildman" Steve Brill. He showed the tour all kinds of weedy looking plants that are actually edible! In fact, many plants we commonly consider weeds are edible. On his tour, I learned to identify garlic mustard, wild carrots, evening primrose, and more. Did you know that daylilies are edible?! He also showed the tour poisonous plants to avoid, like wild hemlock which looks very similar to wild carrot. It was a really fun time!
A daylily -- it tastes like snap peas!
On the hunt for wild carrots in a pasture
Even the stray cat that's adopted me is being resourceful:
Eww, Stumpers got a mouse!
