The Marked Tree

Backpacking, Wilderness Survival, and Martial Arts

Picking a Mess of Poke Sallit

JTHats | June 9, 2009

There’s nothing quite like food that’s a little scary. Some people won’t eat pokeweed, poke salad, or poke sallit, because they fear it. A fair amount of wild food is like that, safe enough if you know what you’re doing, but if you don’t you shouldn’t be cooking it for supper. Poke is potentially one [...]

Wild Asparagus

JTHats | May 31, 2009

Here it is the first of June and we probably still have another meal of asparagus to pick from our garden. Last night’s supper of mushroom risotto with asparagus was delicious, almost as good as it would have been if that was the first we’d had this year. From our wild crop we’ve already picked [...]

The Art of Grazing: Wild Onions

JTHats | May 26, 2009

Walk a few miles around here and you’ll find dozens of plants you can eat. Some of them are delicious, some of them are the sort you’d only eat for education, but there’s always something close to hand.