Herban Foragers

Comment by Tori Heller on January 27, 2010 at 6:24pm

hi! I just joined the group. I'm curious if there's anything going on in the near future. I'm pretty new at all of this, but looking for a community of people to learn from...

Comment by Kathy Jentz, Washington Gardener Magazine on September 26, 2010 at 11:10am

if anyone NEEDS acorns, my Southern Red Oaks are shedding tiny 1000s of tem on my back driveway - be easy enough to sweep up into bags for you - they are wet right now from rains though...

Comment by ishi on September 26, 2010 at 6:02pm

i've been getting some paw paws but most are gone now where i go. also, some apples (though there arent many trees close by). i do see alot of fruit on another tree whose name i forget----they're small, and have orange lines along the trunk and aren't really very good until the first frost.

Comment by KMM on May 26, 2011 at 1:17pm

My partner and son gathered some bamboo for fencing and grabbed a big shoot for me to experiment with cooking. It was an inch and a half in diameter, I used the top 14 inches or so, because it got woody after that. I stripped off all the paper-like "wrappers" at the top, and peeled (sharp knife) the outermost skin off of the green parts further down, then sliced (in a variety of interesting shapes), and boiled in salted water for about 12 minutes. Then I added at the end of a Thai green curry stir-fry. They were great! Fresh, nutty, had a little tooth without fibrousness. Much better flavor than canned (which is all I have had) even though I suspect these are not a prime eating type. I have tried this randomly later in the season and they were tough and kind of yucky tasting - go grab some shoots right now! (And your neighbors will really thank you...)

Comment by Erik Assadourian on May 30, 2011 at 3:09pm

FYI: It's mulberry season.  Mulberries are all over the city begging to be foraged before to avoid their alternative fate of being turned into sidewalk paste.

Comment by ishi on May 30, 2011 at 5:55pm

i posted this before but its gone---anyway i been getting the mulberries and also serviceberries (got stuff before this too). going to get some now.

Comment by alexandra tydings luzzatto on July 31, 2011 at 8:19am

does anyone know if a foraging map for DC exists?

Comment by ishi on August 1, 2011 at 3:12am

 

i have a map in my head.  i even know the community gardens.  saw a new apple tree today, and know the peach trees.  but i generally leave alone what others are using.

  sometimes people are not going to put out a map where they go when you have a big city and an even bigger dmv;  maybe one could do it but have a requirement you post your debit card number and where the debit card is, where you keep your extra car and house keys, and your soc security number.   just to be sure.  half  a nice day.

Comment by alexandra tydings luzzatto on August 1, 2011 at 6:52am

here is one for LA (part of it, anyway): http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/3/viegeneretal.htm

and England:  http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&i...

 

 

 

Comment by ishi on August 1, 2011 at 8:57am

ahhh-j of aesthetics and protest---the whirlwind and such.  

i used to sleep in griffith park in la at the top of the mountain---lots of howling coyotes.  la and california are a whole different story---its the 'left coast'. sacramento and modesto and that area in my experience have the most free fruit----its pretty much an orchard.   i also worked in the orchards with the migrant workers.  i wasnt aware england had any fruit apart from monty python.

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