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Acorn Pancakes, by Michelle

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Everyone likes to talk about gardening and how it will greatly benefit not only your food bill, but also your health with fresh food. That’s great and all, and yes I do garden, but lets face it – a garden is a lot of work. Sure there are ways to make it less work, but in a time and effort spent to food acquired ratio: the scale is heavily tipped to the work spent side. That is only one of the reasons I have been putting my efforts into learning wild edibles: A garden that grows itself, and all I need do is harvest. I like to think of wild edibles as a free, organic, minimal work input food source. We have a 40 acre hobby farm that is 2/3rds wooded.

Here is a list of wild foods we harvest from our land: Daylilies, violets, thistles, milkweed, wild plums, acorns, hazel nuts, wild strawberries, bramble berries, dock, nettle, sun chokes, wild grapes, mint, chickweed, lambs quarters, maple (syrup), pine, elderberries, burdock, clovers, pineapple weed, dandelions (candy lions as my kids call them!), mushrooms: artist conchs, hen of the woods, and crown tip coral. These are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head, I’m sure there are plenty more waiting for us to discover. If we had to be quarantined to our property, I think we would do alright.

A food source that we have been utilizing and…

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