What are you reading in 2023?

[Yppej]

Backyard Foraging

[catherine]

Backyard Foraging

My neighbor, who owns 10 acres of woodland in VT, brought me ramps from her forest the other day. I know they are the hot thing in restaurants these days, so I looked up recipes for ramp pesto. It was delicious! I'm going to try to plant the bulbs in a wooded area in my neighborhood and just see what happens! Apparently they take forever to mature (like 7 years), which is why they are currently being overharvested.

[Yppej]

My neighbor, who owns 10 acres of woodland in VT, brought me ramps from her forest the other day. I know they are the hot thing in restaurants these days, so I looked up recipes for ramp pesto. It was delicious! I'm going to try to plant the bulbs in a wooded area in my neighborhood and just see what happens! Apparently they take forever to mature (like 7 years), which is why they are currently being overharvested.

I'd try those. So far this spring I have had cattail, dandelion, and Solomon's seal.

[iris lilies]

I'd try those. So far this spring I have had cattail, dandelion, and Solomon's seal.

I grow Solomons seal as an ornamental. What part do you eat?

[Yppej]

I grow Solomons seal as an ornamental. What part do you eat?

The tender new shoots. I steamed them like asparagus.

[rosarugosa]

The tender new shoots. I steamed them like asparagus.

Interesting! I jus potted up some young ones to swap with someone in town for some giant hostas.

[rosarugosa]

I just finished Recursion by Blake Crouch last night. It was a really good science fiction read, hard to put down, fast-action plot related to memory and time travel. I will definitely be looking to read more by this author.

[Yppej]

Interesting! I jus potted up some young ones to swap with someone in town for some giant hostas.

Hostas shoots are also edible and I will be trying them and rosebud buds next.

[iris lilies]

Hostas shoots are also edible and I will be trying them and rosebud buds next.

I decided I can’t bring myself to destroy the Solomon’s seal shoots. This little grove is just getting established in our relatively new place.but an interesting idea, nine the less.

[frugal-one]

There are many medicinal properties of Solomon’s seal as well.