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Old 07-20-2020, 01:29 PM
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Default The Skill or art of foraging...who has it now a days?

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I like to only grow edible bushes in my yard. Foraging is fun
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I like to only grow edible bushes in my yard. Foraging is fun
I spend a good part of my time outdoors foraging for one thing or another. Currently saskatoons are out in large numbers so they get picked when I'm out walking the dog. There is also a quite few feral cherry, plum and apple trees in this area that nobody bothers with so I gather them also. The cherries are out now. After I finish lunch up I'm heading out on my motorcycle to an area that I pick mushrooms. I found some boletes the other day so hopefully I can get lucky again. Pretty much anytime I'm out I end up spending time looking around for whatever is in season; berries, mushrooms, sea asparagus, clams, etc.
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Old 07-20-2020, 03:36 PM
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My daughter has been spending time picking things. She has a great app that identifies most plants. She has discovered a couple of morel spots
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Old 07-20-2020, 03:38 PM
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Based in Turner Valley-Julie is really good.
They offer a range of classes and hiking/foraging adventures.

https://www.fullcircleadventures.com/
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I've grabbed sour cherries from a place I have permission, its just landscaping to the customer. Aside from that most of my foraging is from being a shameless dumpster diver, but just for random stuff, never food from such a source.
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Foraging and gardening....

I hope people will check out this young woman's youtube videos.
She teaches so much with very few words.

Give her videos a taste....

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoC...0os_4DBMEFGg4A
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Me ex wife was scared to go into the freezer with all my taxidermy specimens I collected
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It's definitely a lost art. I recall my grandparents picking dandelion leaves for salads, mushrooms and wild garlic and a whole bounty from virtually anywhere. Also using certain herbs and stuff for teas, ointments and other stuff. Seemed like witchcraft to some, but, growing up in a day and age of necessity, it sure makes sense.
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Old 07-20-2020, 06:28 PM
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I've been foraging since I was 5 or 6 with my folks and grandmother. Started with many types of berries and mushrooms. Also pick many other incredible edibles. Central Alberta has a cornucopia of wild foods. There are more than a dozen type of berries alone.

I love fresh roasted hazelnuts or pickled wild onions.
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Foraging and gardening....

I hope people will check out this young woman's youtube videos.
She teaches so much with very few words.

Give her videos a taste....

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoC...0os_4DBMEFGg4A
Watched a couple of this gal's videos. What a wonderful garden she has. I think many north americans have missed the boat on the importance of a garden.
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Last night for supper I had
Elk tenderloin
Cattail tops
Mushroom sauce with 3 wild mushrooms ...on Hutterite potatoes
Stir fried Garlic scapes
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Wild onions are a real treat for us on the trail.

I tried to harvest some glacier Lilly tubers..... not easy...

I’m gonna grab some fireweed roots and see how they are for makin coffee.

Spruce tips are good grazing.

I’m interested in more roots and tubers if anyone knows....
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A friend of mine at work has started a website about foraging as a family. They just released their website but it's great so far. http://Familyforagefeast.Com I enjoy how much he involves his family in the art of foraging.
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A friend of mine at work has started a website about foraging as a family. They just released their website but it's great so far. http://Familyforagefeast.Com I enjoy how much he involves his family in the art of foraging.
Very nicely laid out website. Between the actual foraging, and putting together the website it looks like a pretty great way to bond with the family.
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Like this? The End is Here.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...toma-1.5651435

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I've grabbed sour cherries from a place I have permission, its just landscaping to the customer. Aside from that most of my foraging is from being a shameless dumpster diver, but just for random stuff, never food from such a source.
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No need to be shy, Caber; we ain't here to judge.
I once worked at a large employer that brought in a roll off dumpster for annual inventory time and yard cleanup, the stuff I pulled out of that bin was worth some serious money. There were a few boxes full of brand new light fixtures, as in a couple of boxes each with 4-8 boxes inside them. Bang, onto Kijiji. There was some very thick (3/4” ish diameter) heavy copper cable, maybe around 80 lbs of it. I stripped that and hit the scrapyard. Lots of excellent condition junction boxes and such too, it was mostly an electrical contractor that also happened to employ some HVAC techs & plumbers for their commercial maintenance division. I’ll see stuff at my wholesalers dumpster too, though normally that’s just me spotting scrap copper and brass that someone else is too lazy to properly recycle. Yoink!


Apologies for the derail. Back to found edibles!
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I once worked at a large employer that brought in a roll off dumpster for annual inventory time and yard cleanup, the stuff I pulled out of that bin was worth some serious money. There were a few boxes full of brand new light fixtures, as in a couple of boxes each with 4-8 boxes inside them. Bang, onto Kijiji. There was some very thick (3/4” ish diameter) heavy copper cable, maybe around 80 lbs of it. I stripped that and hit the scrapyard. Lots of excellent condition junction boxes and such too, it was mostly an electrical contractor that also happened to employ some HVAC techs & plumbers for their commercial maintenance division. I’ll see stuff at my wholesalers dumpster too, though normally that’s just me spotting scrap copper and brass that someone else is too lazy to properly recycle. Yoink!


Apologies for the derail. Back to found edibles!
I once worked at a similar place, if it wasn't worth counting, into the dumpster. For a guy that hates waste, it's hard to take, dumpster raiding is just foraging on a different level.

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These guys are up for the next few weeks. Lots of work cleaning them. Kind of like shrimp, lots of work for little return. Tasty though.
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I thought those came out in May...... hmm


All I been chewin on is the new wild onions!

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These guys are up for the next few weeks. Lots of work cleaning them. Kind of like shrimp, lots of work for little return. Tasty though.
Always May long weekend here just north of Edmonton. We pick a couple of shopping bags full in an hour or two. My Wife cleans and blanches them and then puts meal sized portions in ziplock bags to freeze.

I wish that I knew more about mushrooms, I see lots all of them but i’m Only confident with identifying morels, Vespasian and puffballs.
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