Wild Plants as a Food Source

[Devonian]

[bigpaul]

there are a lot of wild plants you can eat, best eaten when the leaves are young and tender, later on in the year they become inedible.

[Devonian]

there are a lot of wild plants you can eat, best eaten when the leaves are young and tender, later on in the year they become inedible.

Yes I appreciate that Paul, but the idea was that rather than having to hunt around for the odd plant here and there, if a few hedgerows could be seeded to provide an abundant supply, it may well be a lifesaver after a total collapse.

And you could focus on ensuring that those with the highest nutritional value are also there and are well established.

[bigpaul]

sorry, I think I got confused by the "wild" plants in the title!!

[Barneyboy]

D I think that's a good idea mate hidden in plan site mate I like it

[bigpaul]

I believe its called "guerrilla gardening"!!

[Sunna]

would it be like normal fruit and veg only ready late summer time, what you do the rest of the year...

[Devonian]

Sunna

It really is just a "last resort" idea that could "help" after a total collapse. Allotments and gardens will be stripped by anyone and everyone who are trying to feed their families, but how many of the sheeple living in your street would think about picking wild plants from roadside verges; farmers fields; or even your own hedges etc?

As BP says, it is guerrilla gardening "BUT" not in the conventional sense as to most people these are weeds and not a food source and so will remain far better hidden than any conventional veggies would and these should keep sprouting up year after year.

Dandelions and Burdock are also both very useful food sources, and certainly dandelions stay around all year round, so you are not restricted to 'late summer' etc. Also you could be planting "winter" cress and other wild plants (weeds) that would provide a supplementary food source at different times of the year.

Have a look at the PDF document on the following thread, its given me some ideas:

http://forum.survivaluk.net/showthread.php?tid=6965

But just think if you spread 500 dandelion or burdock seeds this year in a couple of hedgerows, how many plants would there be in 2, 3 or even 5 years time?

[Barneyboy]

and you can dry it on mass to put in the pot

[T-oddity]