085: Edible Plants
January 17th, 2012 at 2:17 pm (survival skills, the human path, texas outdoor education, herbology, wild food sources, outdoor survival, self sufficiency farming, bushcraft, self sustainability)
In today's podcast, Sam Coffman discusses some of the plants sprouting up everywhere in Central and South Texas in January.
He talks about the general concept of eating wild food and things to consider with this. Sam then covers the following wild plants that are blooming in January:
- Thistles (Sow Thistle, Canada Thistle, Texas Thistle, Bull Thistle) - Cirsium, Carduus, and Sonchus genus
- Cleavers: (Galium aparine)
- Wood Sorrel: (Oxalis acetosella)
- Pennsylvania cucumber plant (Parietaria pennsylvanica)
- Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule)
- Lambsquarters (Chenopodium album)
