The Weed Eater

Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants, Wild Game and Fish. Better than Organic, Sustainable by Nature

Month: November 2016

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Posted on November 26, 2016 by theweedeater

I know, I know. I never shut up about Mulberries.

Mulberries are one of my all time favorite fruits. They are amazingly nutritious, tasty and in no short supply. I recently had an article published on collecting mulberries in the print version of GRIT magazine. If you prefer, you can read the… Read More

Category: Foraging

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I'm falling in love with South Florida. The flora and fauna is quite amazing. I know, like most places, a lot of it is not native, but there is so much free food growing everywhere, wild, feral, or just forgotten... I could just get lost in it. #bananas #landscape #foraging #eatwild #wildfood #freefood #Florida #rewild #nature #tropical #comidagratis #platano
I'm at the Indy Seed Swap at City Market in Indianapolis until 2pm if you want to come chat about foraging and get some cool free stuff! #foraging #wildfood #nature #organic #organicfood #selfreliance #nofilter #eatwild #eathealthy #indiana #indianapolis #indy #saveseeds #seedswap #share
My 9 year old spotted some nice young dryads as soon as we got on the trail today! #foraging #wildfood #nature #organic #organicfood #selfreliance #nofilter #eatwild #eathealthy #indiana #freefood #kids #mushrooms #wildfoodlove #mycology #hongos #comidagratis #silvestre #wild #millracemarathon
This is Creeping Charlie, sometimes called Gill over the Ground, Ground Ivy, and other names. Botanically it is Glechoma hederacea. It is related to henbit and purple deadnettle and is often found in the same places, often growing right next to its cousins. Creeping Charlie has a pungent flavor and I typically use it sparingly in tea blends with other mint family herbs. I haven't seen that Creeping Charlie's safety to humans has been confirmed and recommend using caution, as it it is toxic to horses and other animals in large quantities. How do you use Creeping Charlie? I'd love to hear your stories! #foraging #food #eatwild #eathealthy #indiana #nofilter #silvestre #mint #wildfood #selfreliance #silvestre #autumn #greens #greenery #verduras #creepingcharlie #groundivy #wildfoodlove
Wild Week Day 7, Meal 2: Oven Roasted Cottontail Rabbit with Wild Parsnips and Mashed Acorns! The rabbit is seasoned with Catnip, Sea Salt, and Onion Grass. I laid it on a bed of the Parsnips and Wild Garlic and let the drippings cook them. The Mashed Acorn was my favorite part of this meal and maybe the highlight of all 21 meals in this experiment. I cooked the cold leached Acorn meal over low heat with some butter, Wild Garlic, Onion Grass, and sea salt. I. Was hoping for something akin to mashed potatoes and I couldn't have been more pleased. It was sort of like mashed potatoes AND gravy, but also something unique and all its own at the same time. I devoured every bit of this meal! Oh, and I made a nice tea with white pine, mint and catnip, which was really nice and paired excellently with the food. I'm going to start making that by the gallon :) This is the second to last meal in my experiment of eating only wild foods for an entire week and very likely the last one you'll see me post to social media, as it's so delicious I'm certainly going to be having the same thing again for dinner tonight and that will be the last meal of this 7 day effort. Though I am ready for a cheeseburger or Indian buffet, and even though I've been eating a lot of wild food for several years, my view on food, cuisine, and sustenance has forever changed. Aside from being a husband and father, I feel this has been the most meaningful thing I have ever done. Thank you for going on this quest with me! #foraging #food #eatwild #eathealthy #indiana #freefood #selfreliance #medicinal #freedom #wildweek #hunting #rabbit #yum #yummy #foodie #acorn #getoutside #outdoors
Wild Week Day 7 Meal 1: I'm on my last day of 7 days of eating only wild foods. Today's breakfast is a bit of an impromptu one. Roasted Lotus Nuts and dried Blackberries, and a rather small portion, as I had a bit of an emergency. I had some black walnuts and some fruit leather from Saskatoons (Service berries) that I'd preserved, but I seem to have lost them. They were my back up plan in case I didn't have time to make a more elaborate breakfast, considering I need to get my kids ready for school and get myself to work on time. I don't know if I dropped my wild trail mix in the woods while hunting or what, but they're nowhere to be found. So I had to quickly roast some lotus must just to be able to get the darn things out of their impenetrable shells, and I had just a few dried Blackberries left, so there's breakfast. I'm very hungry and looking forward to lunch! #foraging #food #eatwild #eathealthy #indiana #nofilter #silvestre #lotus #organic #organicfood #nature #selfreliance #berries #yum #foodie #cuisine
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