Nothing we eat is safe anymore. I reduced my red meat intake when that Creuzfeld Jacob was first identified, and then stopped eating it completely. I eat very little pork, some more chicken and mostly turkey and fish. But none is safe. And neither are the plants we buy at the store. If you have good soil, find heirloom seeds and gar…
Nothing we eat is safe anymore. I reduced my red meat intake when that Creuzfeld Jacob was first identified, and then stopped eating it completely. I eat very little pork, some more chicken and mostly turkey and fish. But none is safe. And neither are the plants we buy at the store. If you have good soil, find heirloom seeds and garden! Unfortunately my garden has poor soil, even after bringing in loads of compost. (and the compost contained lot of non-compostable pieces, like plastic baggies with mustard, vinegar etc, plastic spoons and the likes, so I had to filter it all out) But there are lots of edible weeds which I have been consuming in the last 10 years, onions, clover, goosefoot, etc.
I know what you mean. I would find it hard to live without chicken.
I have no intention of ever eating this artificial crap they seem to be intent on supplying us.
That said, I am quietly investigating other sources if the S does actually HTF and I keep coming back to nettles as a good source of protein.
As I'm in the UK and we can't shoot things, I'm learning to forage for weeds and for deep fried bunny, will need to rely on either my bow, catapult, or sling.
I've just started filling parts of the garden with useful edible or medicinal plants like nettles, mugwort, hogweed, comfrey, mullein, yarrow and also more mainstream ones like purslane and Goji berries.
a good start Harry ! Mullein does good in my good for nothing soil. I also got portulacca, which is quite good to eat and has nice pink flowers on top, and 3 kinds of goosefoot, the amaranth kind doing best. I have had the worst time to kill the burning nettles someone accidentally gave me LOL. Some herbals do fine too, rosemary being the best, oregano doing, and mint hanging in there. Oxalis and millefoil and several clovers one year great next year almost nothing. I just let everything be ! And behind us is a large piece of empty land with wild plums and blackberries ! As you state, not near enough, but everything helps !
Not heard of portulacca before, so I'll try and get some.
I wonder if the burning nettles are edible like their relative, the stinging nettle.
It's meant to be a very good crop to grow, as it is packed with vitamins, grows easily and can be cut multiple times throughout the year.
The stems are good for cordage, while the leaves can be made into soup or bread and the seeds are energy and mood lifters.
I never used to be at all interested in plants before this orchestrated "event", but the evil bastards have made me realise that I don't really need a difficult life in "society" and just how rich and abundant nature can be, if idiots and profiteers are kept away from it.
portulaca seems to be another variety of purslane, or moss rose. I looked it up they had a yellow flowering variety and mine is bright pink. The leaves of the wild ones are broader and more fleshy, mine are thinner.
The worst thing is, that farmers don't know either. Shortly after I moved here I read how farmers destroy the edible goosefoot that grows here abundantly with pesticides to grow cotton which needs lots of pesticides as well. If they harvest young goosefoot, to eat raw, then the older to eat as spinach, then the seeds to ground up for meal, they would have 3 harvests from one plant they need not buy and need not fertilize or spray with poison !
Nothing we eat is safe anymore. I reduced my red meat intake when that Creuzfeld Jacob was first identified, and then stopped eating it completely. I eat very little pork, some more chicken and mostly turkey and fish. But none is safe. And neither are the plants we buy at the store. If you have good soil, find heirloom seeds and garden! Unfortunately my garden has poor soil, even after bringing in loads of compost. (and the compost contained lot of non-compostable pieces, like plastic baggies with mustard, vinegar etc, plastic spoons and the likes, so I had to filter it all out) But there are lots of edible weeds which I have been consuming in the last 10 years, onions, clover, goosefoot, etc.
I can't live on carbs...they make me fat and sluggish. I need meat to live healthy.
OMG this is so horrifying I cannot even imagine.
I know what you mean. I would find it hard to live without chicken.
I have no intention of ever eating this artificial crap they seem to be intent on supplying us.
That said, I am quietly investigating other sources if the S does actually HTF and I keep coming back to nettles as a good source of protein.
As I'm in the UK and we can't shoot things, I'm learning to forage for weeds and for deep fried bunny, will need to rely on either my bow, catapult, or sling.
I've just started filling parts of the garden with useful edible or medicinal plants like nettles, mugwort, hogweed, comfrey, mullein, yarrow and also more mainstream ones like purslane and Goji berries.
Nowhere near enough, but for now it's a start.
a good start Harry ! Mullein does good in my good for nothing soil. I also got portulacca, which is quite good to eat and has nice pink flowers on top, and 3 kinds of goosefoot, the amaranth kind doing best. I have had the worst time to kill the burning nettles someone accidentally gave me LOL. Some herbals do fine too, rosemary being the best, oregano doing, and mint hanging in there. Oxalis and millefoil and several clovers one year great next year almost nothing. I just let everything be ! And behind us is a large piece of empty land with wild plums and blackberries ! As you state, not near enough, but everything helps !
Oh and apparently the nettle stings are an age old treatment for arthritis, rheumatism and other joint ailments.
Not heard of portulacca before, so I'll try and get some.
I wonder if the burning nettles are edible like their relative, the stinging nettle.
It's meant to be a very good crop to grow, as it is packed with vitamins, grows easily and can be cut multiple times throughout the year.
The stems are good for cordage, while the leaves can be made into soup or bread and the seeds are energy and mood lifters.
I never used to be at all interested in plants before this orchestrated "event", but the evil bastards have made me realise that I don't really need a difficult life in "society" and just how rich and abundant nature can be, if idiots and profiteers are kept away from it.
portulaca seems to be another variety of purslane, or moss rose. I looked it up they had a yellow flowering variety and mine is bright pink. The leaves of the wild ones are broader and more fleshy, mine are thinner.
The worst thing is, that farmers don't know either. Shortly after I moved here I read how farmers destroy the edible goosefoot that grows here abundantly with pesticides to grow cotton which needs lots of pesticides as well. If they harvest young goosefoot, to eat raw, then the older to eat as spinach, then the seeds to ground up for meal, they would have 3 harvests from one plant they need not buy and need not fertilize or spray with poison !
Yes, same here with gardening and food storage.