Making It: Radical Home Ec For A Post-Consumer World - Plot & Excerpts
Anytime we’re out walking, we’ve got an eye out for food and medicine. Wild greens supplement our garden produce and fill in the gaps between harvests. They’re the ultimate in local cuisine.To learn to identify feral plants, seek out wild food experts in your area who offer guided walks. Field books help, but firsthand experience is the best way to learn. While every region has its own distinctive wild edibles and medicinal plants, there are a few ubiquitous weeds that can be found all over North America. Here we describe a few of our favorites and give you some hints on hunting them.If you do go hunting, always be certain of your plant identifications. If you’re not sure about your identification, just pass the plant by. If you taste a plant and don’t like it, don’t eat it. This might sound obvious, but sometimes new foragers eat foods they don’t like out of misguided machismo (or masochism!). A large part of working with the wild ones is learning to trust your palate and your instincts.CHICKWEED (Stellaria media) is a low-growing, pretty little green that grows in cool weather, so you’ll find it in early spring and autumn but not in midsummer.
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