[USMCPOP]

Well, here in Richmond, VA we have been busy. Can’t garden much, what with our clay soil, dry shade and dozens of deer in the yard.

But! My wife found several homes that have a lot of bamboo growing. We have harvested bushels of bamboo shoots in the last few weeks to help them from getting overrun. This past week we had to resort to drying some because we can’t eat it all. Marvelously nutty flavor if done right. The larger variety of bamboo is yet to sprout, so more is in the way.

Now we are gathering leaves and shoots of Greenbriar. Should have done it a week or two back. The leaves are like a green taco shell, just add whatever stuff in the middle you want. Sort of like grape leaves but not cooked. Straight out of Euell Gibbons “Stalking the Wild Asparagus”.

Wish I could find some Morel mushrooms around here.

[greeneyes]

We have Gibbons book around here somewhere. Hubby spent several years foraging and eating all sorts of stuff. We also have clay soil, and so our garden patches have had to have quite a bit of amendments.

We don't have the deer problem, but rabbits, squirrels, opossums, and raccoons do make some things challenging.

We are blessed with a number of wild berries, persimmons, mulberry trees,and black walnut trees that were here already, so we have some stuff to eat even when we don't plant anything.

[Hardens Hollow]

“Now we are gathering leaves and shoots of Greenbriar. Should have done it a week or two back. The leaves are like a green taco shell, just add whatever stuff in the middle you want. Sort of like grape leaves but not cooked. Straight out of Euell Gibbons “Stalking the Wild Asparagus”.”

The same greenbriars that are all over my forest, with thorns ripping my clothes whenever I try to walk around the woods?