Eating Green: Kennesaw Mountain

Wild Edible Plants . . .

This site is a database for wild edible plants of North America. I encourage any users to leave comments reflecting their experiences with a certain plant. Much of our knowledge of edible plants is either lost, superstitious or incorrect. There's a lot of hype about how dangerous wild plants can be, when in reality most are not only safe they're critical for your health.

My perspective is somewhat unique in that my family and I have camped as a lifestyle for over a decade - essentially lived with edible plants and used them on a daily basis. We have also been raw fooders for a very long period. Becoming 100% raw vegan sparked my interest in edible plants like nothing else. Every day I was out hiking the trails barefoot, eating grass, eating flowers, trying parts of the many plants I came across with a clean palate . . .

Using wild edible plants is the best way we can defy the system, maintain our health, and get our independence back.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Kennesaw Mountain

We took a trip to the base of Kennesaw Mountain today to look for wild edibles. But we've had a lot of cold this winter, and Kennesaw is far behind where it usually is this time of year. There's not much growing - though the honeysuckle is flowering. The cream flowers smell intensely sweet, with a lot of nectar - but the base of the flowers is harsh, sort of like daylily. There's a farm across the street from the trailhead, and the girls fed the goats and lama and pony a bag of carrots.

Today is Day 3 of going 100% raw. I had a green smoothie with kale this morning. My daughters and I split a 10 pound durian for lunch. I had another green smoothie later (with collards - excellent). I felt great from all this. I'd been soaking sesame seeds all day for tahini. I drained and rinsed them, and tried blending them up with the juice of one lemon. Didn't work - gritty. I finally got out my little hand-held grinder to do the job:

I ran the seeds through twice to get them into mush. I added a little Real Salt. I ate this for a while with celery, then remembered we have some small seedy tangerines in the fridge. I juiced 4 of these and put it in the blender with my tahini mush. This had a great flavor, though not the usual tahini consistency - it was more wet. But afterwards my stomach hurt and I felt like I ate way too much.

The secret of going raw is to never go hungry, but also, to never eat too much. I thought by first soaking the seeds they would be more digestible - we'll see.

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Guerilla Gardening

Eating green means eating wild/local/raw - any or all of the above. What you can't harvest in the wild, grow. Begin 'guerilla gardening' - the act of planting seeds of fruiting trees and shrubs on any suitable ground around you, regardless of whose land it is. Vacant lots, abandoned property, roadsides, public lands . . . anywhere.

If anything will 'save the planet', and bring back paradise - this is it. Of course the planet doesn't need saved from global warming/peak oil/overpopulation myths (propaganda), but from neglect and abuse, via habitat and soil destruction.

Start saving the seeds of everything you eat, read up on the conditions each seed likes for germination, and plant. It doesn't cost you a cent, yet is one of the greatest contributions towards the future you can make.

For more details, start here.

The Green Smoothie

The green smoothie is one of the easiest ways to incorporate wild edible plants in your diet, especially greens. They're very high in fiber and nutrients, and blended up, easy to assimilate.

A simple recipe is 2 to 3 bananas, a cup of water, a mango, and 2 cups of wild greens. If you don't have mango, use an extra banana. Blend it all on high a full minute. Not only does it taste great - it's great for you.

If there's no nearby wild greens, use 2 cups of organic greens - organic here is important because the whole point of the smoothie is minerals and chlorophyll ('the elixir of life') - which is much higher in organic greens than conventionally grown. Greens like chard and kale are easy to grow on your own - even in pots.

If you don't have greens, use a tablespoon of green powder, such as barley or wheat grass. If you've got a manual wheatgrass juicer, juice enough grass for a 1-2 ounce shot and throw that in. Most grass is sweet, and even bitter grass like crabgrass can be sweetened with a little more banana.

Longevity

Here are the 7 keys to health as outlined in AVOIDING DEGENERATIVE DISEASE:

-physical activity

.....find exercise you like and that is fun, not scheduled compulsory routines that you come to dread. Find ways to become more active.

-natural diet

.....every authority on health agrees that the more fruits and vegetables you eat the better. Hunger is an opportunity to either nourish or deaden yourself.

-clean water

.....avoid tap. Forget city water. Attach a cistern to your roof and harvest rain.

-sunshine

.....spend as much time outside as possible. Lay out and clear your thoughts. We're designed to thrive outside.

-sleep

.....get enough rest. Crack a window while you sleep for fresh air - even better, sleep outside. Sleep as much as possible.

-stress management

.....if possible, avoid all stress. Stress acts like poison in your body, and accumulates. If you can't avoid it, find ways to work it out, such as yoga or athletics.

-toxin avoidance

.....poisons are everywhere you turn in the modern environment. Live as simply and as close to nature as possible. Question every product.

I also highly recommend Victoria Boutenko's books.

Eating Green

Wild Edible Plants . . .

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Kennesaw Mountain

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