Let's Get Back to Healthier Times and Eat a Little Wild |
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Many of my earliest memories have to do with wild, edible plants. I spent many happy hours sitting under a huge, old oak tree eating acorns or perched on a branch of a pine tree, digging pine nuts out of pine cones. In the spring I ate the tiny, red, wild strawberries that grew in the orchards. In late summer we ate the clumps of tiny, blue elder berries that grew on small trees in nearby hills. In the fall I ate wild blackberries that grew along roads and over the hillsides. I walked through the olive orchard with my dad, chewing on clover flowers or sucking sweet nectar out of grasses or honeysuckle, while he pointed out the difference between the edible mushrooms and the poisonous ones. As I wandered through the orchards and the nearby hills, it seemed there was always something good to put in my mouth. And you know what? I never gained weight.I was always skinny and full of energy. But that was the good old days, before I grew up, got married and moved to town and started buying all my food from the grocery store. All of it refined, precooked and full of artificial flavors, colors and preservatives. All of it grown with chemical fertilizers and sprayed with chemical pesticides. I long to get back to those good old days but don't get me wrong. I'd hate to have to "live off the land," gathering all my own food, killing my own meat. UGH!!! I'd have to turn into a vegetarian |
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