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A suggestion -- you can buy survival guides to edible plants, specific to regions. If you're unsure, the boy scouts or wilderness orgs will have recommendation
by x0x0 7y ago
A suggestion -- you can buy survival guides to edible plants, specific to regions. If you're unsure, the boy scouts or wilderness orgs will have recommendations.
If you're going backpacking, tossing one of them in your pack seems like you can shortcut a bunch of the above.
- sametmax 7y agoYes, but remember it's still easy to pull an "into the wild" ending. One day I was with David Manise, a survivalist teacher. He pulled out a root, and made us tasted it. Young wild carrots. Pretty funny how small it is compared to our domesticated version, we really did a number on the specie by breeding them. Then 10 meters away, he harvested another one. Looked the same. Only it was young hemlock. It's what Seneca used for killing himself. The lesson here, is that eating wild plants is always risky, no matter what protocol or book you use. I still love the idea, romantically, of going in the wood and finding my food with the help of some kind of Junior Woodchucks' Guidebook.