Weekend Foraging

Bear here, 

Winter is coming and the foraging season is still plentiful if you know where to look. This weekend we looked to the farmer's market, the public bike path and our yard, here is some of what we accomplished.

From our yard ​we pulled arrow root from our home made pond. We are planning to use them like potatoes.

Time to clean out and refill the pond. The bulbs float when you get them free of the mud. Along with the arrow head roots we pulled a lot of planty muck. the stuff is kinda nasty and I wanted to get some of it out so our pond doesn't turn into a marsh. The good news is that we can use it as fertilizer, I spread it over the garden by the pond

Step two, cleaning the bulbs. I know I don't want my frige or food smelling like pond mud. I snapped the long ends off then rubbed the extra plant matter off with a rough towel. It is faster than a brush and there is no chance of cutting into the root. Get all the ugly off then rince with cold water until you don't smell pond.

Looks better don't ya think? The bulbs need to stay moist so i put a little water in the plastic bag that I am using to store them in the frige.

From public land we found two apple trees. One had big apples and the other small apples so we used both to make apple sauce. The apples may look ugly but the flavor is great, we didn't have to use much honey or cinnamon to sweeten it. We made 13 pints!

From the farmer's market we bought a large container of dark honey and enough sweet peppers to chop and freeze over 20 two cup freezer bags! No pictures because we finished late and I forgot. That's OK... We will still be able to taste summer in February.

​Type at ya later...