Yeah, very location dependant for sure. Im in the mid atlantic and my amranth just grows without any intervention.
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I have started playing with AI as Alan suggests more, adding more criteria for it to compensate for. It really improves the results.
For instance; how I actually refined searches to find recorded evaluation and use of a very off the wall apple named “Prince of Georgia”. Which I assumed was just a synonym for something else. But it is DNA tested unique.
I found a now freshly out of Cider business used it in one of their many ciders. Then that U of F tested it. And a barely well known Orchard has it.
Since you have black walnuts… you most likely also have hickories… shagbark and shellbark hickory nuts offer up some nice size nutmeat chunks… and I think are easier to process than walnuts.
Having a few pecan trees to forage from would be ideal.
Since you hunt/forage… get into mushrooms.
There are lots of nice edible mushrooms. I eat morels and chanterelle myself.
If you have a body of water near by… rivers provide fish, frogs, turtle, snakes, crawfish, muskrat, beaver, raccoons, duck, geese, etc.
TNHunter
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I’m sure AI is a fine search engine. That’s not really what I meant. I’m talking more about the illusion that our industrial food system is a high-tech super-efficient system incapable of breaking down. That’s just not the reality at the grassroots level. There are hi-tech components to the food system but they are often overstated. If you’re thinking in terms of points-of-failure the technical components are far outweighed in their impact by the non-technical/non-machine components. Humans, political systems, nature, financial systems, etc.
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Who all is going to roll the dice this year with CWD?
However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that hunters in areas where CWD is found take the following precautions: Strongly consider having harvested deer or elk tested before eating the meat. Do not eat meat from an animal that tests positive for CWD.
My local river… i wouldnt want to eat the catfish out of it. I dont think anyone does.
My local dam… it is posted to only eat one fish meal per week due to various pollutants etc.
Then there is the ‘forever chemicals’ that one needs to think about at some point or another.
I lived on Oatmeal and Bananas and Peanut butter for 120 days about 10 years ago. I think i could have climbed Mount Everest after that. Total detox and cleanse. I lost 40lbs and have never felt better in my life.
Each person has their own story whether it be carnivore or vegan or high fiber or high fruit or no sugar or whatever works for them.
The only fact is that there is no facts.
If there were some secret to the human diet… i would think that pro athletes or olympians or the richest people in the world or the president of the us… would do it and do it consistantly.
I think its fairly simple… yet for me its so hard to do.
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I went fishing this morning…
Saw an eagle with a large fish in his clutches as he flew over me.
I would add fish to my list for sure.
TNHunter
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Chicharron looks good. I can hear the crunch in this picture
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I would add muscadines, plenty of carbs and lots of good phytochemicals to keep you healthy. Picked these today - the light ones are Hall and the dark ones are Paulk. You can easily get 50 lbs per vine. You might be a little more marginal for hardiness where you are, but it is worth a try.
If you are willing to eat raccoons, you could add them to the list with the muscadines since they’ll come from far and wide to get them. I’m guessing eating raccoons really isn’t recommended, but don’t eat meat so never looked into it.
The Hall are nice and ripe, but the raccoons just showed up so we had to pick some of the Paulk before they are really as ripe as we’d like or they’d all be gone. I think they’ll still make good jelly.
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The Chicharron (aka pork rhinds) are wonderfully crunchy… tasty, have no carbs, and are loaded with collagen.
For someone eating (no to low) carb they work well… they are my crackers, my chips, my bread, my something crunchy to go with something chewey…etc.
Muscadines… yes… my 2 vines are 2 year old this year so I only got a small crop… next year should get lots more.
I have oh my (seedless) and Isons.
Oh my seedless dehydrate nicely.
TNHunter
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Nonsense. Trash Panda’s make exceptional roasts. Best roast you ever try.
Possum’s on the other hand are only useful as a stock pot seasoning and gravy component.
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A local farm is selling these Razzmatazz hybrids at the farmers market (WV). So they must do good here. Thinking about adding one as a food forest snack.
( i like that it seems to be very easy to manage without a complicated trellis). Potted or even hanging baskets.
The local farm says that they are no spray nothing at all but just growing and picking… as does this video.
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I think they would be great for bird satiation, long ripening period and low maintenance, ripening after most mulberries are finished
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Thanks for all of the input everyone.