Recession proof List of Edible plants, that grow in your area for the time when TSHTF and nothing else to eat.

Peanuts, potatoes, sugar cane, bananas, coconuts.

all of the above has been used by native americans and passed down generations.

Maple Tree

Twigs: Skin bark from the twigs and soak in water for a few hours can be used as an eye wash

Bark: Boiled into a tea. Once cool can be douched to relieave menstrual cramps, and as a enema to cure a worm infection.

Sap: Can be used as a flavoring (duhh)

Its important to learn the uses of all the trees around you. The are easily identifyable and each has many, many uses as medicine and even food.

Ash Tree

Berries: Are high in Vit. C. Eaten will aslo cure parasitic worms.

Bark: As a tea will help nausea and will cleans/detoxify the blood. Has been used by natives to help heart problems as well.

Thank you half past midnight, i'll look them up

Mulberry Tree

Berries squeezed into water and then drank will reduce fevers. Can also be used as a mild pain reliever.

These are good, but don't grow wild, most part of the world

Yes, i love mulberry!

Somehow I feel less uneasy with plants...you know how it is:-)

Southwest usa:

beaver tail cactus
gooseberries
cottonseed tree bark
agave
acorns (soak tannin out first)
pine nuts
cattails
wild onion

Oak Tree

Fungis from this tree can be seeped into a tea to be used as an antibiotic

Bark: Soaked and simmered in water can be used as an antiseptic.

Acorns: Grounded and mixed with water will help diareha

Inner bark: soaked and seeped can be used to gargle to help with a sore throat.

This is a great idea for a thread.

I have just recently tried dandelions and squash blossoms (no fruit, just the male blossoms). I've found that the dandelions in my area here in the central US are more bitter than garden lettuce, but that squash blossoms are sweet.

That said, I can't recommend enough the concept of growing food indoors via high tunnel aquaponics. You can grow extremely intensively, producing upwards of 5 times more food per square foot than traditional gardening/farming methods.

I built a high tunnel aquaponics system this winter, and I grow a wide variety of my favorite veggies year-round now, along with thousands of pounds of fish. Again, I can't recommend it enough.

My high tunnel aquaponics system is currently being featured on the home page of Coast-to-Coast AM's website. If anybody's interested, there's a thread about it here: Thread: Whoa, my aquaponics garden is featured on the C2C homepage!

I was going to ask"where did the coconuts go"?My favorite thing about Hawaii when I was little.Dad was stationed there.

Wild mustard leaves are good for salads and the seeds can be crushed and made into a paste for topical pain relief.

Pine Tree **Very Useful**

Bark from young trees: simmered as a tea and then applied it to burns to draw heat to gaurd against infections

Sap: Used as an anti inflamation and antiseptic salve to speed healing, Used to relieve arthirtis pain. (apply sap to sores or areas)

Needles: Made into tea relieves sore throats, ease colds. Chews for Vit C.

**Pine nuts**: Just a 100 gram portion has 635 calories, 60 grams of fat, 20 carbs, 13 grams of protein. Also 604 mg of phosporus, 5 mg of iron, 4mg of niacin, 1 mg of thiamine.

*** Harvist and save your Pine Nuts. They will save your life and requires very little energy. Be sure you dry them.

Im not going to list any nore benifitial trees. Research those in your region. Also research plants, but the trees will save you.

this is a great realitive thread.

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Alder berries and Alder flowers, edible and brewing.
Silver Birch Sap make wine and beer.
Oak leaves can be made into a wine.
Fungi and mushrooms, learn about them first as some variaties look like the real deal but are toxic.
Dandelion and dandelion root tea.
Nettle soup and beer.
Watercress, salads, cook in a boil up with wild potatoes and mushrooms.
Fruit of the wood, fungi found growing in oak trees.
Berry hedge rows, apple trees, pears etc
Walnuts, pinenuts, rosehips.

Then starve.

Just used some leeks out of the yard today... made northern beans with ham-bone and cornbread muffins... and leeks on the side.

I always end up with a ton of small green granny smith apples, peaches look good this year. Russian olives will ALWAYS produce no matter what. Kiwi fruit. Muscadine grapes. Black walnuts, pecans- can you tell I'm a fan of trees and vines?

Please POLK salad is poison, read and be sure before you eat, you have to soak it, wash it, soak it, and wash it and cook it to death. Kutzooi is a food I understand.

So what do we do if the environment is so damaged the plants wont grow let alone yield fruit and vegies.

Dried food is useless without uncontaminated water.

Why worry..... this is just a ride anyway.

Dont you know that with the right thought process things just 'turn up'.

If its time to jump off the ride then so be it but in the meantime make the most of what you have to work with because the better it gets, the better it gets.

SEARCH EDIBLE WILD PLANTS

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when you are all eating bark and grubs, im gunna eat your legsteaks

Thank you sweetipie!

Thank you dear New Zealand friend...bless you.

Cool...we have pine trees nearby.

I just found something on roses:

Both rose hips and rose petals are edible. Roses are in the same family as apples and crabapples, so the resemblance of their fruits is not purely coincidental. Rose hips also have a bit of the tartness of crabapples and are a great source of vitamin C.
All roses should produce hips, although rugosa roses are said to have the best tasting hips. These are also generally the largest and most abundant.

Caution: Don’t use rose hips from plants that have been treated with a pesticide that is not labeled for use on edibles.

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