[pct-l] Food Dehydrator Tips or Recipes?

[Edward Anderson]

VERY WELL SAID Shroomer! This time I have nothing to add.

MendoRider




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From: Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com>
To: Paul Robison <paulrobisonhome at yahoo.com>
Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
Sent: Tue, December 7, 2010 3:54:39 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Food Dehydrator Tips or Recipes?

Go ahead and bitch Out Post. It's an important part of any discussion of
wild edibles. I agree with you, and try to do just that.  Our feet alone dig
the JMT deeper each year and it's great to be able to walk the trail
"ungrazed".  But there is a bounty out there that is just off trail, and I
believe can be eaten without negatively affecting the trail, or the woods in
general.  But it takes some thoughtful foraging.  Whenever I forage
responsibly, I feel it's actually a benefit to our planet in general.  No
chemicals went into the foods production, no green house gasses were created
from the gas or electricity used in its transport, soil cultivation, or
drying, and I get to have the vitamins and minerals up front and not in a
pill.  Anyway, I've been doing it since the 60's when we tried to live off
the land, and I get a great joy from adding real trail food to my diet.  But
responsible foraging off trail of plentiful foods like the pinenuts in SoCal
in the fall, onions in the Sierra, lettuces and mustards, which grow in
tremendous profusion during the winter and spring, and mushrooms, which are
the fruit of a plant that lives underground, can be an ethical way of
providing food on trail.  By picking a mushroom you get spores all over your
hands, your clothes and pack, and then do just what the mushroom plant
wants, by spreading them down trail. Some are food for other creatures, such
as porcini, which is loved by pigs and deer, but others are not, such as
chanterelles.  Before cooking, they are hot and spicy, hence the German
name, fiferling, or pepper mushroom.  Picking a mushroom does not hurt the
plant at all, and is analogous to picking an apple off a tree, which doesn't
hurt the tree.  But when a mushroom bloom is on, there are simply huge
amounts, enough to go around.  Most will rot, or be parasitised by other
fungus ie, lobster mushrooms, and add to the forest nutrients.  Oh, hell, I
can go on.  Sorry about that.  They are beautiful however, and picking off
trail of a plentiful wild edible is the best way to do it.

Shroomer


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