Finding FREE Food!!! (Foraging)
Learning from our Chickens and Rabbits, we have been learning to find our own free food as well! (Who would have thought that it would come to this! :o)
When we left our yard in Ohio we knew we would miss our developed gardens, producing mulberry trees, grape vines, apple trees, nearby walnut tree, and even the dandelions (which are actually an import from Europe and a wonderful food source). What we didn’t know is that God had SO much more in store.
We have been learning so much about the plentiful food God provides (when you don’t need to keep a perfectly cut suburban yard). Each of the following has been a joyful discovery on our property over the past year (and quickly growing as we have been focusing on learning more over the past few weeks):
Over the past year we found : Mulberries, Walnuts, Persimmons, Red bud, Pokeweed, Dandelions,
We have also found the following healing herbs: Lambs Ear, Plantain (the “weed”, not the banana type fruit), Jewelweed (the antidote for poison ivy… which we also have… and need to get goats to manage for us)
We have also planted: Apples, Pears, Figs, Goji berries, Elderberries,
This past week we have been excited to find: Echinacea, Black-eyes Susan, Sumac (actually we knew that we had LOTS of sumac, but didn’t know how good it can be), and several other fun discoveries.
For the Echinacea. Elyse had just been commenting that she would like to plant some echinacea, and we saw a bunch growing wild in someone’s yard just yesterday. This morning Isaiah came over with something behind his back. He pulled it out and asked if this was what she was looking for. It ends up a bunch came up on the other side of the pond and we didn’t even know it!
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