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Martian_Time_slip | 03-28-2008 07:52 PM
How much food do you have? Still not enough. How long do you think your food will last? Enough for a 10 year food famine? 20 year? You think the empire's just going to leave you alone to your little farm out in the country? Let's get real. The elite are going to starve us out, and 99% of us probably won't save enough to last beyond a year. So let's get real. Lets discuss edible foods that we can find in the wild. I'll start first: Dandelions are especially well-adapted to a modern world of "disturbed habitats," such as lawns and sunny, open places. They were even introduced into the Midwest from Europe to provide food for the imported honeybees in early spring. They now grow virtually worldwide. Dandelions spread further, are more difficult to exterminate, and grow under more under adverse circumstances than most competitors. Most gardeners detest them, but the more you try to weed them up, the faster they grow. The taproot is deep, twisted, and brittle. Unless you remove it completely, it will regenerate. If you break off more pieces than you unearth, the dandelion wins. "What's a dandelion digger for?" a dandelion asked. "It�s a human invention to help us reproduce," another dandelion replied. Collect dandelion leaves in early spring, when they're the tastiest, before the flowers appear. Harvest again in late fall. After a frost, their protective bitterness disappears. Dandelions growing in rich, moist soil, with the broadest leaves and largest roots, are the best. Select the youngest individuals, and avoid all plants with flowers. Some people eat the greens from spring to fall, when they're very bitter. Others boil out the summer bitterness (and water-soluble vitamins) out in two changes of water. It�s all a matter of preference. http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Pla...Dandelion.html

RealityCheck | 03-28-2008 08:49 PM
Re: How much food do you have? Still not enough. Quote:
Originally Posted by Martian_Time_slip (Post 1033879) How long do you think your food will last? Enough for a 10 year food famine? 20 year? You think the empire's just going to leave you alone to your little farm out in the country? Let's get real. The elite are going to starve us out, and 99% of us probably won't save enough to last beyond a year. So let's get real. Lets discuss edible foods that we can find in the wild.
Do you think the "elite" will just let you run around in the wild like some aborgine for 20 years gobbeling up weeds and such? :D

Tn...Andy | 03-28-2008 08:57 PM
Re: How much food do you have? Still not enough. Although I have no doubt "the elite", whoever they are, probably DO have some ideas in mind to reduce population to what the petri dish will support, I also believe they like being "the elite" and all the privileges that go with the title.....and it takes quite a few of us peons to keep them in the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed. If the plan is to starve everyone out for 10 years, then they might as well simply put a gun to their head and save a lot of time, because THEY aren't any more capable of surviving that than anyone else.

StackerKen | 03-28-2008 10:30 PM
Re: How much food do you have? Still not enough. I have one Miner's lettuce We have tons of it growing here on our 5 acers Im sure our neighbors do too. http://www.almaden.ibm.com/almaden/e...wers/miner.jpg They sell it on line here http://www.marxfoods.com/fresh-miner...FRiXiQodOFsY_Q http://www.marxfoods.com/core/media/...e5de363a6f996c I have Haven't tried it yet.... But this it what I have just read bout it Quote:
Miners lettuce is named after the California gold rush miners who ate it to get their vitamin C to fight scurvy. Imagine how thankful the miners were when this plant came up in the spring. The winter has just past and they all have red bleeding gums and loose teeth. Many of them have sores that will not heal. Rejoicing that spring has come, feasting on a salad of miners lettuce that cures them of those miseries brought on by scurvy. If they had only known about pine needles and straw berry leaves they would have had plenty of vitamin C.
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Lettuce? Yes, you can eat it--raw in salads or boiled like spinach. Early settlers and Indians collected and ate it. It is said that California Indians used to place it by red ant hills to pick up formic acid as a dressing. I would be worried that the ants would eat it. I rarely pass the young plants without pulling off a leaf to nibble on. It tastes a lot like raw spinach to me, not as delicate as lettuce. It has none of the peppery kick of the the somewhat similar garden plant (weed?) nasturtium Tropaeolum majus, which is also in the Purslane family.

Martian_Time_slip | 04-15-2008 12:29 AM
Re: How much food do you have? Still not enough. Went to the local park today. I saw there were blackberry vines with ripening fruit all over the place. Me and the gf picked a couple handfuls. Also, ISRHTF there's fish in the sewer canals, big fat ones as long as your forearm. I'm sure they're loaded with heavy metals, but I'd rather eat that than go to a FEMA camp. It seems a bit radical, but oh well. I just know I don't have to go anywhere or have an immediate bug-out place where I'm likely to get hung up in traffic or police detention points.

thorgrim | 04-15-2008 01:16 AM
Re: How much food do you have? Still not enough. Found these with a quick search. Some of the lists don't give much info but you could do specific searches on the individual plants for more info. http://www.plantbio.ohiou.edu/epb/fa...sonalSched.htm http://www.edibleplants.com/dwvplants.htm http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/woodsnature/page3.html http://www.edibleplants.com/wepnut_frames.htm

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