It's really cool how you're able to find food in the wild. Our landscape has unfortunately been overrun with invasive trees but I'm hoping to someday be able to pick breakfast from plants growing off the land. I'm not too familiar with this kinda plantain. To me plantain=raw banana which are great in chip form and whose leaves are massive which we use as plates. I guess if it's better raw a salad would be the best way of eating it.
Oh that's roo bad, but sonetimes invasives could be edible too...and you would be helping to get rid of them!
I don't know the scientific name for this plantain weed but here's a goid article on it: https://www.offthegridnews.com/off-grid-foods/3-ways-to-cook-plantain-the-spinach-like-survival-weed/
You will for sure have your breakfast picked from your garden at some point my friend, I'm sure you will.
@senorcoconut and @soulturtle Its called Plantago major I wish you both wonderful adventures onto wild foods and foraging.
When in doubt...go without. A good rule to follow.
Thanks @borrowedearth, I will definitely keep that in mind. When in doubt... Go without. (The more I write things down the more I remember them😃)
In our case it's mostly Eucalyptus and Acasia. It may perhaps be possible to extract DMT from the Acasia but I'd rather leave that to the trained medicine folk. I should also look into edible weeds as that's a whole unexplored world and I'm sure at least some of them growing locally are useful in someway or the other.
I'm still wrapping my head around growing food and trying to get a cycle going, but it'll happen someday. It really is rewarding to be able to eat fresh like that.
Keep working on it...you'll get fully wrapped around it soon enough! Oh DMT from Acasia! I time walking up the hill to Auroville, all I cpuld smell was something in the air that reminded me of DMT, maybe it was Acasia?
Here in north america, there are tons of edible weeds people regard just as pests. You must have some too.