Wild Vegetables, Mushrooms, and Berries--Natures Vegetable Garden-Pantry

Wild Vegetables, Mushrooms, and Berries

Natures Vegetable Garden-Pantry

Special add Notes

·   Arctic: Nearly all vegetables =Edible

Don't eat:

Fungi, Baneberry, lupine, buttercup, Death Camas, False Hellebore, Larkspur, Monkshood, Vetch,

·      All berries in Artic are Edible except **BANEBERRY**

·   All lichens in far north are Edible.

    Steam or boil them for safety.

·   All grasses, seeds, nuts, fruits=Edible- Blades with common base or stalk; be careful, high cellulose content, leaves are stomach abrasive.

No known grass is poisonous

·   All Seaweed (not threadlike) below water=Edible, cooked; eat slowly

·   Inner Bark Food:

  Of Birch, Aspen, Poplar, Most Pines, Slippery Elm, Willow, Maple, good Raw, cooked, tea Store in dried strips

·   Sap-Very nourishing:

  Cherry, Maple, Aspen, Birch, you can live on this alone for many weeks. Drink raw: Tap from hole into inner bark, 2 gal in 24 hours Plug tap after use

·   Pine All seeds and roots are rich in fat and protein. All seeds in Spruce or pine cones rich in fat, protein.

·   Any Canadian vine and all ferns =Edible

©Al (Alex-Alexander) D. Girvan 1994. All rights reserved