Good eating in the wilds..

[betty]

When I was growing up, we had a pawpaw tree right out from our back door, wild grapes in woods, RAMPS.......we have big ramp dinners here in WV. After the frost, if you can beat the critters to them...persimmons, such tasty delights after frost.

And to caveman...WV author Bill Roody wrote a great book:
Mushrooms of WV and the Central Applachians. Paperback is way cheaper $23.00 than the hardbook at $60. I have a book of wild mushrooms, still love those morels the best tho.

I have a native WV chestnut down back, swear the deer know when the first nut falls off the tree. Squirrels steal all our black walnuts too. But there is hickory nuts, makes great cakes, all sorts of wildlife edible too, so if your pantry runs short, forage thru the woods.

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Thanks for the heads-up on the book betty........yeah, we sure love them simmons(theres a tree just down the road) and pawpaws............we make pawpaw puddin.........sure is good. I've been gettin some walnuts and hickory nuts for the winter.......some hazel nuts also............yep mother nature sure has some good stuff to offer us.

[jack]

Gidday

Hey I didn't think pawpaw and cold winters went together.

It sounds like a bloody nice place to live all the same.

And those persimmons are one of the best windter fruit next to citrus.

[betty]

You know, my old granny, use to tell us what they harvested off their farms, amazing too, I loved just listening to her, and there is a bounty out there if one chooses to look.