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Nothing to add to this other than a question
How can a beginner learn about foraging for wild edibles? I know a few basics but are there books or online resources specific to my area?
I tried google, but got very generic results (shit from websites like artofmanliness) so that's not a giant help.
Any tips, book series or publishers, etc would be nice, or links to websites are greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

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>>623462

I'm in Texas (Houston) and use Foraging Texas quite a bit. The guy there is the next best thing to learning from an expert in the field. The rest of it is just learning about wild plants in general - not only for eating but for their various uses (medicine, tanning, soap making, bug repellent, etc).

In my area, the wild persimmons are finally coming in depending on how much water and sun they've been getting. I need to go on another run to get enough for some good wild persimmon butter. Elder berries are just about done and I have a few to juice and jam. I still have wild blackberries in the freezer from last spring. I save them for the holidays. Also, there's a ton of mustang grapes around here. I made a few jars of jam this year. We also have a load of hackberries that are in right now...I may try running some through the vitamix to make energy bars.

I like to eat whatever mushroom looks tasty

To be fair he admits that he's really only in the bush for about 8 hours at a time, he goes home. Even the small hut he made he said took him 3 days combined, but he stretched it out over a month.

That being said, maybe. Anyone smart enough to bang rocks into trees can harvest wood, but then you need fire making, water collecting, cordage crafting, shelter building, and you do it all while your stomach growls louder and louder and you have to look for food. It's obviously not impossible but you'd need the right skills and the ability to prioritize, which not many people would have if they were truly "stranded" and had to make it with absolutely nothing.

As has been mentioned in similar threads, most people probably could not because the amount of physical work you'd have to do versus the amount of food you'd need to gather to make that work possible means you'd succumb to malnutrition or starvation.

Humans work best in groups. One person can be building shelter, another gathering or cutting wood, another fishing or hunting and another gathering berries or roots. That way at the end of the day everyone has food, warmth and shelter and no one had to go in to severe calorie deficit to achieve it.

>>622980
This. Humans are just not equipped to survive unless they're in a group. Yes it happens in rare cases, but as a species, we're meant to be social.

The skin flute

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i can't really play properly and people hate it, so it's lots of fun. i don't bring my acouie /out/, too big and too expensive. i also have an egg shaker i should bring, and maybe pick-up some cheep bongos so we can have a real pow-wow round the fire.

If you get sick and die after taking advice on mushrooms from this board you almost deserve it.

Thats an Armillaria mellea, they are edible, but may cause an upset stomach if found growing on hemlock, buckeye, eucalyptus, and locust trees

>>621730
It's totally safe bro. Not going to kill you or anything.

>>621405
Nice brickettes you have there!

What is your race, mixed? A bit undeterminable from thqat pic.

>>621405
tbh grills don't usually go out. can you post more photos?
>can't tell what brand it is

>>621407
Full Native American
>>621409
Well it's *thinks* I'm not sure...but we do keep it out and it does great.

>>620642
I'm certified but haven't been in a few years. I live 2 hours from the Texas coast but the water is too cloudy to make it worth while. The last time I tried to go off Palm Beach I was sick and couldn't equalize. Sucked that I had to sit on the boat as others dived

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>>620642
Is spear fishing (with a spear gun) considered unsportsmanlike if you're using scuba gear? Is free-diving the only 'real' way to do it? I'd like to get into it and am PADI cert but I can't hold my breath for more than 30 seconds. I know that you can work dynamic apnea skills but combining scuba with hunting seems fun

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Any thoughts on Lloyd Godson's new underwater habitat project?

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We have about 6 forest service cabins in my area and this happens all the time. You have to pay money to reserve them and people just think they can show up, "oh... I didn't know you had to reserve these. You're not going to make us walk back 5 miles through the forest at night are you? There's plenty of room for us" Or they are already inside the cabin and you show up and have to kick them out.

I don't let them in and kick them out when they are there unless they were near death.

Walk up to the window, turn 360 walk away.

Let them stay in a few minutes to dry / warm up. Get some food in them, and send them off.
Even the most normal looking people can be psycho's. You just cant tell.

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A challenger is appear !

>>615137
Thanks for the tip on pennies I hadn't seen that one.

Got one for you I picked up in the scary stories thead: climb up on high ground above someone camping and hurl stones down on them.

Bet it'd be a lotta fun.

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I've become a gearfag with shallow personal relationships.

> itt maladjusted, asocial, weeboo, hipster faggots

On the bright side, op will never find his first cache.

leathermans are best. ive never held one that wasnt a sturdy tool. ive never used a swiss multi-tool but they always seem to just have way to many tools on them, id never use half of them

i have a leatherman surge and i think im gonna be getting a charge soon, we'll see tho

>>613225
tool density is the same tbh it's just the swiss tools blades and awls and everything is stronger more durable better at doing shit.

but you need a tool to deploy the tools which is insane.

leathermans are not nearly as tough and robust and good quality, they have gimmicky features too, buut they are easy to operate even one handed on certain tools.

many supertools rebars and surges have been bent using the plier the frame can't take what the plier head can take the skeletool is the other way round the joint is very strong the plier head is weak and brittle.

basically if you need strong plier above all else get a swiss tool, but if you want a smooth experience with all the other tools and don't plan on heavy use for the pliers get a leatherman, even tho the swiss tool has better tools overall.

the mut was a huge disappointment, it was way too bulky to handle comfortably i have big hands and i wanted to drop it as soon as i picked it up cause it felt like a steaming piece of shit in my hands. the surge is lacking a lot of tools that are out related and has the same weakness as rebar and supertool.

>>613189
I got a beat up Leatherman Blast for $20 at a yard sale. Did I did good?

What town do you live in? I live in Fairbanks, it'd be hard to live in an RV with such harsh winters but if you're a bit more south then it should be doable. People live in much worse, trailers are fine

>>626692
>keep a shitload of blankets inside
>cover windows with something(Curtains, blankets)
>supplemental heating that won't catch you on fire (tough one)


>cover outside maybe
>hang blankets on walls i guess
>winterize the fuck outta everything


tl;dr cover fucking everything and youurself in blankets to make your whole rv a fucking blanket burrito

>>626693
I want to move to some place far north eventually and I'm thinking either Barrow, somewhere in Yukon, somewhere in Nunavut, or north Greenland.

Do you have any experience with the farther north areas like Prudhoe Bay or Barrow? I had to cut a lot of meat out of my diet for health reasons and I'm wondering how hard it is to get vegetarian food up there. I heard that Barrow is extremely expensive but that they also pay much higher wages up there to make up for it, so I'm curious as to whether it evens out.

I know that in Nunavut or north Greenland, I would have to set up some sort of greenhouse on stilts, and I'm not sure how feasible that is. Ideally, I would like to live on Ellesmere Island, but I think Grise Fiord is the only community north of Resolute Bay, and I don't really wanna live there.

Also, I'm not white but I'm not black. Are Alaskans racist? I usually get dirty looks from older people if I visit places like Virginia or Florida, and so far I've gotten the impression that white, rural Alaskans aren't much different. How often do you get to see auroras? And would Labrador retrievers need a winter dog jacket?

>>626296
Are you even allowed to carry matches in the UK?

>>626297
Yes but you have to have them attached to a special match holder on the outside of your coat. And of course you have to get a license to carry

>>626300
Since it's bongistan, I can't even tell if this is a joke

Talk to me about the rice and lentils anon.
What is the highest elevation you have cooked that concoction?

>>625149
Have not cooked it before, but next ime im out with my buddies n not to trashed i probably will n see how it works. Would altitide have a large impact on how it would cook?

>>625256
Not >>625149, but water boils at lower temperatures the higher you get so typically it will take longer to cook. Seeing at you are cooking lentils from raw it could be a few hours at high enough altitudes.

looks like a cool knife, but i'm wary of any fixed blade w/o a finger guard
2cents

>>625080
it has a very slight one. my current edc (enzo pk70, no locking blades in UK sadly) has almost no finger guard and i never have a problem with it.

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>>625078

I've had the D2 flavour for about 3 years now.

Don't be put off by >>625080 and his fear of finger guardless knives. The trapper has a nicely contoured handle, and despite the smooth looking micatra it fits your hand like a glove with a solid, sure grip.

if youre upping from a Mora, the biggest difference you'll notice (or at least I did) is the thickness, and in turn the weight.

it's a good knife if youre on a weekend long camp out, but I find it too heavy to take hiking- all in knife and sheath must be 2, or 3 times the weight of a Mora Classic #2

performance wise, the D2 steel is brilliant. it doesn't hold a hair popping edge for long, but due to the carbide content of D2 it maintains a working edge pretty much forever. the thickness of the blade is something I'm not too keen on, I'd prefer if it had a mm less and be as thick as something like my ESEE 3. To use it's good no fuss knife, it feels solid enough in the hand that you're not scared to use it hard, and the blade shape is conducive for pretty much everything from popping a rabbit's feet off to carving a spoon I've found.overall up against my ESEE 3 (similar size,weight, function) it's a nicer knife to use

if you want a knife that is more traditional and less tacticool looking it's one I'd personally recommend to a buddy

Took a walk yesterday and saw a bird sitting on a power line. It took a shit and I saw it fall to the ground. Surprisingly in all my years I had never seen a bird take a shit. I've seen the shit, I've seen the birds, never seen them combined.

It was interesting. My dog didn't care.

>>621565
really? i have been shit on by multiple birds.

i live on the texas gulf coast and every winter we get tons of birders. i don't really care about it but i know alot of people do. i have been within about 50 yards of a whooping crane though, that was sort of cool. that bird was as tall as me. and supposedly there are only like 300 in existence anymore.

Indeed, I saw grey-headed and black woodpeckers last weekend. Also common crossbills arrived to my country, so I saw them as well.