Edible plants

[nightowl1]

I'm really getting into survival learning. I know there are a number of you who have some great information.
What are some of your go to edible plants?
To keep this from getting overwhelming, list your top 3, region and season harvested.

Thanks guys! looking forward to the info

[ishiwannabe]

Fiddleheads, may apples, and wild grapes.
Spring, spring, and early to late fall. Im in the Northeast.

[3blades]

Fiddle heads-blackberrys-pawpaw
spring summer fall

[mwmwmb]

I like greenbrair shoots. I guess mushrooms arent plants so i wont go there.

[bretto]

Stinging Nettles!! Common Thistle, Dandelions.

Early spring thru the hottest part of Summer

[Pat B]

Cat tails; all seasons all parts.

[Mudd]

I'm not familiar with Fiddle heads. Please enlighten me. Thanks!

[sleepyhollow]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Fiddleheads&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

[tradtusker]

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[Steve H.]

Fiddleheads are ferns Muddy Water!  I eat a  few some years when they are young and tender in early may here in AK.  I pick and eat gallons of berries most years, mostly in preserves thou.  I also pick gallons of shrooms up here but you gotta know what the heck you are doing!

I occasionally eat some twisted stalk leaves, usually for show when some outsider is up.  Screws with them.  I usually make them east some too.  Kind of spinach-like.  Fireweed leaves too.

Oh yeah, Labrador tea, I routinely am sucking on a tea leaf when I am out and about.

[2fletch]

Some of what I like are sorrell, violet, plaintan, rose petals (and hips), may pops, mayapples, blackberry, pawpaws and hazelnuts. Most of these are already on my 1.75 acres, along with rose of sharon, daylilies, blueberries, gooseberries, etc.

My goal is to have something fresh from the yard to munch on every day of the year. I'm about 3/4ths of the way there.

Pat, teach me about fiddleheads. Can you domesticate it? When do you harvest? and how do you prepare it? Also, what part of cattails do you use? and how is it prepared?

[bretto]

Don, I know You can dry and grind cattail roots  into flour not sure how to eat the rest though.

[Steve H.]

For fiddlehead ferns, you pick the little fern head right when it pops out of the ground before it unrolls or it will be bitter.  You steam it about like you would brussel sprouts.  Domesticate, I dunno about that one!

[buckeye_hunter]

At first glance, I thought the title of this thread was "edible pants"!    

[bowmofo]

Ramps~Morels  Ohio in spring Ramp bulbs and nettles in summer Spice berry in fall along with the obvious common  berrys nuts and greens

[2fletch]

Oh yes, and chickweed. Just noticed that it is starting to reseed now. It makes a good cold weather substitute for lettuce.

Staghorn Sumac makes great tea, along with sasafras root.

I made a bread of white oak acorns once and it was a good nutritous bread. It's a fair amount of trouble though. Also, I wouldn't make it now because I've heard so much about Acorn Corruption.
 

[jonsimoneau]

Hey man...you're a bowhunter.  Stop worrying about eating plants....and just eat the animals that eat the plants.  Just kidding.  It is very interesting.  Although I was hunting in Texas once with uncle Gene and Barry, and a bunch of other cool guys. The javelina were really into eating cactus.  I tried it and let me tell you it hurts alot more coming out than it did going in!