Foraging: a search or the process of searching for
something, especially a search for food and supplies or a search among a varied
collection of things.
A lot of this depends on the location you’re trekking
and the time of year you’re there. Telling you to look for wild strawberries in
January in the Sierra Dessert won’t help you much. For our sake here, I’ll be
focusing on two locations: Vermont in the early spring, and Appalachian
Kentucky in mid-summer. As you’ve
probably guessed, that’s the locations in my books, so that’s where most of my
research was focused on. I’ll be posting
these during April’s A-Z challenge, so stop back then to learn probably more
than you ever wanted to know about these hidden treasures. Who knows, maybe you’ll
be back-packing in Vermont someday and you’ll be able to impress some friends
when you pick up some watercress from a stream and eat it and don’t die.
But I digress.
As stated above, foraging can be dangerous. There
are lots of plants out there than can and will kill you. That’s why it is
always best to have a field guide for the particular area you plan on foraging
in. But we’re talking about survival here. When you’re trying to survive, you
usually didn’t have time to study up on the local scenery. One good rule of
thumb is to watch the animals. If they can eat it, you usually can, too.
*Definition obtained from Encarta Dictionary,
English
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