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OwenChristensen
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# Posted: 13 Jun 2012 10:46am
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I don't have much naturaly, but there's these; Deer, grouse, maybe some turkeys, geese, bear for meat. There are hazelnuts, rasberrys, choke cherrys, cranberrys, a few blueberrys and strawberrys.
I've heard you can eat cat tail roots, beaver, racoons even porky pines. I havn't tried them.
I plan on planting apple, potatoes. It sure would be nice to have a ballanced diet right there.

Owen

groingo
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# Posted: 13 Jun 2012 12:43pm
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Bout all I have is berries, black, ever bearing, Himalayan, black caps, four varieties of Huckleberries, high mountain strawberries, Salal, Cut throat trout, Salmon berries, Hazelnuts,Oregon grape and all are seasonal.
The Salal is my favorite and most plentiful, can make a lot of stuff with it and it keeps easily especially if de-hydrated.

OwenChristensen
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# Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:12pm
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What is Salal?

naturelover66
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# Posted: 13 Jun 2012 06:58pm
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I planted raspberries, strawberries, blueberries and apple trees at the cabin. There are turkey and deer...... but i would never eat them.
The sandy soil up in Northern Michigan......... im working on improving it for a huge garden.

cabingal3
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# Posted: 13 Jun 2012 08:06pm
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Quoting: OwenChristensen
What is Salal?

a berry

cabingal3
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# Posted: 13 Jun 2012 08:09pm
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the store is where there is food.no berries,no nuts,the soil is pumice and there is teeny tiny wild strawberries growing.
when we go to the store 20 miles away.there is 2 fruits for a couple of bucks and they are not in good shape.
there is squirrel,deer,birds.

groingo
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# Posted: 13 Jun 2012 08:31pm
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Just google Salal berries, it grows nearly everywhere and is great stuff!

Borrego
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# Posted: 13 Jun 2012 10:22pm
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Desert, so nothing. Well maybe a scrawny jackrabbit if I could catch 'em. I could make Tequila out of the agave plant though to stave off starvation......
But basically nothing, no edible plants I know of, just seeds and such.....

Sustainusfarm
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# Posted: 13 Jun 2012 10:25pm
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Wild asparagus, blackberries, that were there naturally. I have planted strawberries and now cleared some land to plant apples, pears, june berries, raspberries and a garden.

Malamute
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# Posted: 14 Jun 2012 12:36am - Edited by: Malamute
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There's decent soil, a garden would do fairly well, though I haven't had time to get one in, I always seem to be busy this time of year.

There's a number of wild things that grow around the area, some berries, and other things, I haven't looked into it very well, and I'd like to. There's also whitetail and mule deer, elk, antelope, moose, black and grizzly bears, cottontail, jack rabbits, and snowshoe hares, porcupines, skunks, beavers, badgers, wolverines, wolves, coyotes, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, marmots, mountain lions, bobcats, and a few lynx. Many different birds also.

turkeyhunter
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# Posted: 14 Jun 2012 07:12am
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Quoting: naturelover66
There are turkey and deer...... but i would never eat them.


may I !!!!!!

deer , turkey, rabbits, squirrel, wild hogs....doves,quail,woodcock

lots of wild blackberries, this time of year,

in the fall persimmons, crabapples

at least 75% of our meat we eat is wild game---
we buy chicken, and steaks--all of our ground meat is venision.
cubed deer and pork
pleanty of fish in the creek and rivers....
if i HAD too---i could survive off the land.
at home we have a garden, and fruit trees and right now our blueberries are ripe and loaded.

cabingal3
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# Posted: 14 Jun 2012 11:41am
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our land in the mts.is high desert...once we get up there to live we will have a garden.and plant lots then.that will broaden things up for us.cannt wait.

neb
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# Posted: 15 Jun 2012 08:55am
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Pheasants,grouse,partridge, deer, turkey,fish,geese, ducks, fish and moose from time to time. Chokecherry. plum, wild onion and some native herbs. I planted a few apple tree's so will see if they can live in this wild country.

pondjumpr
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# Posted: 3 Jul 2012 03:11pm
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I am sure there are more but we have tons of Blackberries but only a short window as this heat has killed them. As for other things that grow... There are Muscadines, Persimmon (sour) and a few pear trees (from an old homeplace) near my cabin site. A few nut trees (Walnut and Pecan). I have heard of some eating acorns and pine nuts but I am not well versed with preperation of those items.
Also, squirrell, doves, turkey, deer are very abundant. fish and frogs are also something that would be easy pickin's. There are other critters that seem to be abundant, too but they are not on the top of my hit list.

I was just telling a friend of mine the other day that if things get bad, I will probably be eating Robins for breakfast. They seem to be everywhere and have a nice orange breastplate target for a .22lr...

wakeslayer
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# Posted: 3 Jul 2012 03:53pm
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We have tons of hucks, blueberries, service berries, blackberries, wild ginger, miniature strawberries, and thimbleberries. I am not a hunter, but if need be, we have deer, moose, elk, and a bunch of rodents...

Bevis
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# Posted: 3 Jul 2012 04:11pm
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Deer, Turkey, Wild Hogs, Bears, Fish, Ducks, Quail, rabbits... Swamp Cabbage (the hearts of a cabbage palm aka: sabal palm)

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