Spring is here--Day 7--Weekending--Wild Edibles Hike

 {We are celebrating spring with counting 30 days and 30 ways we as a family are embracing the new spring season--come along with us, if you'd like!}

My hubby, and littlest babe drove out of town this past weekend, leaving behind our 4 others in our hometown.  We were headed to a special place for a class on wild edibles!  I'll share more detail of what we learned in upcoming posts, and a little here today.  The caretakers home was charming--chicken coop and all!

 

 

 Did you know you can eat the blooms off the redbud tree?  They actually were quite sweet--you can taste a hint of the nectar in them!  Wouldn't they be beautiful on a cake!

 Also, I had no idea lilac blossoms are also edible.  We enjoyed cream cheese infused with morel mushrooms--this was wrapped in black forest ham inside a crepe.  Then we dipped it into maple syrup.....yum!  Also, we had pizza that was wonderful.  The crust had cattail pollen in it--the top had sauce, melted cheese--and tons of greens from the land he had shown us and picked up.  Organic, local and free! (And by the way....I NEVER thought I would say I enjoyed cattail pollen...strange!) What about putting the blossoms onto or mixed into vanilla yogurt or vanilla ice cream along with honey?  Mmmmm...have to work on that one this week~

 

 Touring the caretaker's home--me and my littlest babe!

 

 

 

 

If you are interested in wild edibles--call your local extension office to find out if there are any classes going on in your area.  It really is becoming quite a popular subject--all part of living off the land--using what's on hand, God's gifts to us to use. 

Blessings,

~Joy~

{Part 1 of my series on wild edibles can be found here....}

{This post is a part of Monday Mania, and Pennywise Platter, Fight Back Friday, and Frugal Friday}

Comments

[Liberty]

I did not know you could eat redbud blossoms!!
already looking forward to next spring :))
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[Joy Y.]

Liberty,

I thought it was kind of amazing myself! And, that they were sweet made it even better.

Blessings to you,

~Joy~

[Shu Han]

I reallyw ould love to find out more about wild edibles. unfortunatlely, i don't know who i can contact her ein london. thanks for sharing though! it was lovely reading about the redbud blossoms and seeing those cute photos(: