Nature’s Open Grocery store
Shopping in nature is the best way to maintain your health and let us find out which what are the stocks available and at what times.
These wild foods can be readily found out in the Kickapoo bioregion (southwestern Wisconsin). Let us know in a little more details as to which wild foods is available at what part of the year as they are highly seasonal in nature. Like during the early spring season you can likely to get Maple sap and syrup, burdock root, nettles Watercress, Wild leeks and many more. You can also findChikweed oysters, Dandelion roots and leaves, Yellow dock, wintercress leaves, violet leaves and of course spring beauty in mush more abundance. So if you are looking for any of these herbs, you have to knock the doors of nature at the right time as mentioned.
During the fall of the spring season also nature gives us plenty of healthy wild herbs. Some of them include Bracken fern (fiddleheads), Lambs quarter, Wild Asparagus, Dandelion flowers and buds, wild onions, Morels, Shaggy manes, Tender shoots of milkweeds and cattail, flowers and buds of wintercress and violet and tender leaves of plantain.
Summer is the time when nature gives us those kinds of foods which keep our body cool. Wild natural foods available in summer are Wild amaranth, pollen and flowering head of cattail, Day lily, Flower buds and tender seedpods of milkweeds and mayapples. Apart from these some other foods which are available in plenty during these times are Wild strawberry, Thistle, Purslane, Sorrel, Flowers and berries of elderberries, blackberries, black as well as red raspberries, chokeberries and mulberries. Foods which are readily available during the fall of the season of summer includes hickory nuts, wild apples, black walnuts, wild plums, Sumac berries, Chicken – of – the – woods, oyster mushrooms, puffballs, wild grapes, acorns, Black cherries and arrowhead roots. Also available foods during this season are America lotus roots, cattail roots and chicory roots which should be roasted before consuming.
Many of the seasons actually do overlap quite often and hence nature has also given us such plants which are available to us throughout the whole year. Some of the examples of this variety include Dandelion leaves, chickweed greens and many more. Apart from the above mentioned plants there are also numerous plants which can be edible too like putting in your salad or making up tea etc. All the plants are available in abundance and there is no endangered species, so out in nature and start shopping today...