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creeky
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# Posted: 2 Aug 2015 04:38pm
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we've talked about wild harvest a few times. but, as some of you know, this year i've been learning from a ms. C.
today she showed me how to find mushrooms. I came home with 3 kinds of mushrooms. in this pic, chantrelles found in white pine forest are in hand.
so tonight for supper it's chantrelles, heavy cream, butter over fresh dug potatoes. Filet mignon marinated 24 hours in organic soy sauce, garlic (pulverized) and hot pepper (diced). Sides are steamed corn and yellow bean/jalapeno pepper salsa.
I know. Not more yellow beans. It's now two weeks, every day, yellow beans ... I mean I love yellow beans but I'm running out of ways to eat 'em.
anyway, for dessert it's blueberry pie (store bought).
man this living off grid is tough.
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AK Seabee
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# Posted: 3 Aug 2015 12:12am
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Natures bounty, you are living the good life Creeky!
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hueyjazz
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# Posted: 3 Aug 2015 11:39am
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We have an abundance of berries. In particular Blackberry, Raspberries and Wild Strawberries when they are in season.
Now the challenge has always been getting them to the container while picking them. Seems that a mouth always gets in the way before they make it to the container. But, there's nothing like fresh berries on pancakes to start the morning.
Darn, just drooled on the keyboard again.
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creeky
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# Posted: 3 Aug 2015 03:42pm
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I'm going to add one more pic. i harvested some potatoes. basil. the chanterelles again. and the milkweed pods.
I am quite happy to have discovered milkweed. man it is so good. the white inner core is creamy and the overall flavour is like a real sweet bean. hard to describe.
huey I wish my berries were better. I got a few raspberries before the birds and that's about it. they are so tiny I usually just use them for muddling in my g&t.
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cabingal3
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# Posted: 3 Aug 2015 08:04pm
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let my green onion patch be taken over by lambs quarters.
i am waiting to dig up oyster plants come the second frost.i see wild chamomile and wild red currants.
now the robins are fighting me for the red currants.next year i will be more on top of the red currants situation.
plus my garden.so we have been having alot of goodies.
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groingo
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# Posted: 3 Aug 2015 09:44pm
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Has been a good season for Salmon berries and wild blacks but the blueberries and hucks are way off but that's OK the Salal berries are going longer and the Everbearing blacks are weeks off and the black caps were few but fantastic.
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Just
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# Posted: 4 Aug 2015 05:20pm
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Its time for sumac tea . I picked these today . soak over night in cold water strain add a little maple syrup or honey and you have a delish lemony drink. [ red sumac only never white ]
red sumac flowers
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creeky
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# Posted: 28 Aug 2015 04:20pm
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i am enjoying this summer's harvest. can't even begin to talk about the wonderful salsa/pasta/basil concoctions I have come up with this year.
but who doesn't love ribs ... so here's my "I ran onto the farm grabbed a pig and made off with some baby back ribs" recipe
marinade for my ribs. (have I mentioned I love ribs)
heaping tbls fermented black bean
scant tbls very hot peppers diced
2 tbls soy sauce (friend gave me organic soy sauce. it is better)
large clove or cloves garlic
tbls sugar (I use maple syrup, but molasses, corn syrup, etc)
rest over night in the marinade
then for the "mop"
I made a raw pasta sauce using hot peppers asiago cheese tomato basil (3 kinds) etc with malt vinegar. it was heavy on the vinegar so I poured the excess off into a glass. after leaving that in the fridge for a few days that's my mop. I added more vinegar before starting the bbq. and a dash of liquid smoke.
now cook for 4 hours.
then eat. do not record the sound. it will be loud. there will be moaning. and. groaning as you reach the I ate too much stage.
gotta love summer.
and just for fun. here's the wild mushroom agnolotti with raw basil / tomato pesto. the basil is the 4 kinds I'm growing in the garden, and the tomato is one of the "amish" variety going. this is what I had extra vinegar on and poured off.
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groingo
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# Posted: 29 Aug 2015 02:19pm - Edited by: groingo
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Uh oh, another Euell Gibbons in the making, soon you'll be raiding Squirrel stashes for the seeds and whatever and we'll all reading about the standoff between some really pissed of squirrels and a guy named Creeky!
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creeky
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# Posted: 30 Aug 2015 11:00am
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 . I'm already hoarding acorns.
and the turkey had the chalet surrounded this morning. maybe they were trying to send me a message.
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groingo
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# Posted: 30 Aug 2015 11:44am
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Creeky:
NUTS TO YOU......(just couldn't resist)!
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Just
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# Posted: 30 Aug 2015 12:33pm
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Elderberry pie this week .. MMMMMMMMMMM !!!!
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creeky
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# Posted: 30 Aug 2015 12:49pm
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those elderberries look amazing. can you show me a pic split open. i want to see the seed pattern.
i have a lots of different "blue berries" on the property. i just want to eat stuff that's safe. i think most of them are safe. so ... it's a learning process for sure.
and groingo. i just went for a walk through the pine forest. there were two kinds of mushrooms. i harvested one type I thought might be chanterelles. nope. so I won't be eating them. but they sure smell good.
and i picked some hops. they're ready for harvest. but boy they are tiny this year. usually they're three times this size.
and a pine cone fell on my head. have you seen the price of pine nuts. i will try to extract and report back.
oh. and the pine cone that fell on my head. unless I miss my guess. the wild turks are roosting there. judging by feathers, and, er, other stuff.
happy harvest all.
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Just
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# Posted: 30 Aug 2015 01:25pm
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too small for my camera usually 4 seeds in a berry there are at
least 2 kinds grow in Ontario I only eat the small ones not sure why ,,I think my grand father told me that??
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groingo
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# Posted: 30 Aug 2015 01:51pm
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Looks like its going to be a later season for my wild blueberries but they typically keep producing into October sometimes November, depends if I get them befor the Alaskan Robbins return which are a wild crowd when they arrive, more like a bunch of drunken sailors on shore leave.
My Salal berries ran long this season, make good jam and also very good dehydrated chips.
My Everbearing blacks have another week to go but our weather is turning early with high winds and heavy rains more like November, maybe nature has something in store this coming fall winter?
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creeky
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# Posted: 30 Aug 2015 03:16pm
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thx Just. I don't think I have anything quite like those amazing blooms of berries you picture. Most of my plants seem to have two seeds or three seeds. so I'ze gotz some research to doo. Not that I fret too much. My birds love the berries. So I am pleased to share.
groingo. i envy you your berry season. my dad lived on vancouver island and I visited one year while he was traveling. what a treat. the neighbors, no doubt feeling sorry for me all alone, brought me fresh salmon (caught that day) during the peak of blackberry season. of course I invited them for supper and i made a blackberry sauce for the salmon that was talked about for years after.
I used my dad's "british" special: this pre/war bike from britian with brakes made of steel bars and wheels the weight of a bike today to climb up the trail to the water retention lake. on the way down, well, let's just say I couldn't stop at the street, or at the train tracks, or at the main road, and almost ended up in the ocean. but I did gather a rather nice bag of blackberries.
my stepfather was a great cook and inspired us boys. talk about the gift that keeps on giving.
speaking of which. your reference to Euell Gibbons was really appreciated. Mother Earth News has this 1972 interview. Neat what has changed and what remains the same. And certainly an inspiration to us all who are off grid.
I start in September, fingers crossed, on a small project to document "wild harvest."
My latest discovery. I'm putting a hops bud in the glass of each beer that I pour. A creek treat indeed.
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turkeyhunter
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# Posted: 30 Aug 2015 06:33pm
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my "wild harvest" will start in about another month as it cools off....deer/wild hogs and doves/ducks/and small game;)
fill the freezer with 100% organic protein!!!
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Just
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# Posted: 30 Aug 2015 07:03pm
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Quoting: turkeyhunter "wild harvest
Saw 2 nice organic proteins in the field at dawn this morning . Opens Oct. 1
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creeky
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# Posted: 30 Aug 2015 07:07pm - Edited by: creeky
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turkeyhunter. i wish i was a better hunter. over the past two years I have littered the sky with 10 shells and hit 0 ducks. my efforts quack them up (sorry).
speaking of organic. i went to the farmers market and picked up some boletus mushrooms (also called porcini). garlic. hot pepper. some of the tomato I'm growing. leeks pulled this a.m. some linguini. I added a little corn and heavy cream. meh. not a bad supper.
save some ribs for me. i luvs me mah hog. and deer chops. in fact i'm drying some of the mushroom to grind. apparently to be sprinkled on your deer meat just before serving. can't wait to try.
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turkeyhunter
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# Posted: 30 Aug 2015 10:40pm
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creeky ya supper looked good ..ya just needed a pork chop to go with it..lol
Just--it want be long !!!
my garden is about done..made some pepper sauce today
and dried some Maine apples last week.
Picked the last mater's this week.
will be time to plant some turnips/kale/collards soon!! ( fall garden)
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creeky
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# Posted: 2 Oct 2015 05:35pm
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this was today's surprise addition to some chicken lickin' good supper. went for a walk in the pine forest and found this little guy.
boletus. nice thing about boletus mushrooms. if yer mushroom looks like a sponge underneath. it's good to eat. (nb. in my area)
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groingo
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# Posted: 3 Oct 2015 11:21am
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Creeky:
You got me thinkin', then I remembered....it's your song....Wild Wood Weed by Jim Stafford.
The wildwood flower grew wild on the farm
And we never knowed what it was called
Some said it was a flower and some said it was weed
I didn't gave it much thought...
One day I was out there talking to my brother
Reached down for a weed to chew on
Things got fuzzy and things got blurry
And then everything was gone
I Didn't know what happened
But I knew it beat the hell out of sniffin' burlap
I come to and my brother was there
And he said, 'What's wrong with your eyes?'
I said, 'I don't know, I was chewing on a weed'
He said, 'Let me give it a try'
We spent the rest of that day and most of that night
Trying to find my brother, Bill
Caught up with him 'bout six o'clock the next mornin'
Naked, swinging on the windmill
He said he flew up there
I had to fly up and get him down
He was about half crazy
The very next day we picked a bunch of them weeds
And put 'em in the sun to dry
Then we mashed 'em up and we cleaned 'em all
And put 'em in the corncob pipe
Smokin' them wildwood flowers got to be a habit
We didn't see no harm
We thought it was kind of handy
Take a trip and never leave the farm
A big ol' puff on the wildwood weed
Next thing you know
We's just wandering behind the little animals
All good things gotta come to an end
And it's the same with the wildwood weed
One day this feller from Washington come by
And he spied us and he turned white as a sheet
And he dug and he burned
And he burned and he dug
And he killed all our cute little weeds
Then he drove away
We just smiled and waved
Sittin' there on that sack of seeds
Y'all come back now, ya hear
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creeky
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# Posted: 4 Oct 2015 09:48am
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that was an interesting song. reminded me ahh of the good ol' days when I was on a quest to swim in every ocean and sea on earth and living in the land (literally. Lived in a cave in Greece for a bit).
now there's a story my grandmother used to tell. One of her friends was visiting up from Mexico back in the day. (Mennonites emigrated to Mexico, the US and Canada).
She brought with her a pack of seeds and told grandma how the plant grew quick and made a great wind break. and you could harvest the seeds for eating in the winter time.
Well grandma planted those seeds in a huge long wind break right around her garden. and sure enough they grew up tall and fast and smelled good and she admired the bright green as it was real pretty set against the softer greens of the open prairie.
that fall she and the girls harvested seed and filled bushel baskets with them. and all winter long the girls would run down to the cold room and grab a handful of seeds if they were hungry 'cause supper wasn't ready yet. she grew that windbreak for about 10 years.
now all of those girls did exceptionally well at school and later the three girls who entered the work force rose rapidly through the ranks. My mom started as the lowest clerk but ended up as a director for a billion dollar business. My aunt started as a secretary and ended up vice president at a many hundreds of millions a year corporation. My other aunt was second only to the owner. But of a much smaller business.
I always wondered if the vitamins and essential oils in those seeds, consumed in those important development years, had something to do with their minds becoming so brilliant.
So if you're growing your own patch groingo. I guess some of those western states are legal now? i don't really follow the news out there. Enjoy your sack! And don't forget to share with the little ones (just the seeds tho).
As for me. I'm old and befuddled enough. Maybe once I'm fully retired i can go back to tilting at windmills. As I do hear it's good for the rheumatism.
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