How to Make Cattail Pancakes
For the number of different kinds of food it produces there is no plant, wild or domesticated, which tops the common Cattail. – Euell Gibbons1 Euell … Continue Reading →
Category: Edibles
Wild edibles, backpacking food, preparation
How to Get Yummy Sunflower Seeds from Wild Plants
Let’s look at harvesting seeds for food. There’s not much written about the actual mechanics of harvesting seeds. So I thought I’d share my limited experience. Here’s how I harvest … Continue Reading →
Willow Bark – Using Ancient Aspirin
Before there was medicine, there was “wilderness medicine”… – Buck Tilton, Wilderness First Responder: How to Recognize, Treat, and Prevent Emergencies in the Backcountry, Globe Pequot, 2004 … Continue Reading →
2014 Retrospective
Welcome to 2015! A blank calendar is full of possibilities! Do you have any big plans for 2015? Have you made any resolutions? Set any goals? For 2015, I … Continue Reading →
How to Make Orange Acorn Bread
Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts! – James Beard We gathered and stored our … Continue Reading →
How to Make Acorns into Food (Part 3)
We conclude our “Acorn Trilogy” by learning to use water and gravity to transform the bitter nutmeats into nutritious and filling food. In Part 1, we reviewed the steps … Continue Reading →
How to Make Acorns into Food (Part 2)
When we gather, process, and cook acorns, we connect with nature in a way that is absent from our modern lives. It allows us to revive the ancient … Continue Reading →
How to Make Acorns into Food (Part 1)
For me, the end of summer is signaled by the start of the acorn harvest. True oaks (Quercus) and Tanoaks (Lithocarpus) in my area produce a bountiful crop of acorns. … Continue Reading →
September is Acorn Month!
September is Acorn Month at NatureOutside! Each season brings its own special joys. Fall heralds the acorn harvest. I love acorns, and you should too! Acorns remind us … Continue Reading →
Bannock Disaster
I hope this gives you a chuckle. I stumbled across this picture taken several years ago. I am trying to make bannock, on a stick, over a campfire, … Continue Reading →