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LOCAL FORAGING
South Pinellas Wild Foods
Weed Harvesting Guidelines
1. Only harvest weeds that you can positively identify and know to be edible. The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants, by the Department of the Army is a good reference, if you aren't sure.
2. Avoid picking weeds close to roadways. They'll have absorbed exhaust fumes and road run off.
3. Avoid harvesting weeds in areas that may have been contaminated by animal feces.
4. Do not pick weeds from yards that have been treated with pesticides or herbicides.
5. Only eat the parts of plants that you know to be edible. Many edible plants have non-edible – and sometimes poisonous – parts.
Moringa
http://www.moringagardencircle.org/tree.html
Edible Part: Leaves, seed pods & seeds
Benefits: Highly nutritious
Other Uses: Water purification
Beauty Berry
Edible Part: Berries
Benefits: Tea from berries & roots for fever
Other Uses: Leaves as insect repellant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igKeqZjxPYQhttp://www.eattheweeds.com/beautyberry-jelly-on-a-roll/
Goldenrod
Edible Part: Flowers & Leaves
Benefits: Tea for bruises
Other Uses: Poultice for toothache, burns and insect stings
http://www.eattheweeds.com/solidago-odora-liberty-tea-2/
Banana
Edible Part: Fruit & flower
Other Uses: Leaves can be used as wraps to steam food
http://heavytable.com/cooking-with-banana-flower/
Wild Amaranth
Edible Part: Leaves & seeds
Benefits: Contains calcium, iron, potassium, phosphorus, vitamins A, C and E
http://www.eattheweeds.com/amaranth-grain-vegetable-icon/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcrZ5XYcbvk
Purslane
Edible Part: Leaves, flowers, stems
Benefits: It has vitamin A, B, C and E — six times more E than spinach — beta carotene — seven times more of that than carrots — magnesium, calcium, potassium, folate, lithium, iron and is 2.5% protein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tw8DcGAGmo
http://www.eattheweeds.com/purslane-omega-3-fatty-weed/
Spanish Needle
Edible Part: Leaves & Flower
Benefits: Antimicrobial
Other Uses: Attracts pollinators
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrAk_4r7Egc http://www.eattheweeds.com/spanish-needles-pitchfork-weed/
Bitter melon
Edible Part: Green pod when cooked
Benefits: Medicinal
Other Uses: Shading vine
http://freshfromyouryard.org/2009/10/15/balsam-pear-momordica-charantia/http://www.eattheweeds.com/bitter-gourd-balsam-pear-pharmacy-on-a-fence/
Virginia Creeper
Edible Part: Fruit-raw, Stalk-cooked, root-cooked
Benefits: Medicinal
Other Uses: Dyehttp://www.naturalmedicinalherbs.net/herbs/p/parthenocissus-quinquefolia=virginia-creeper.php
Palms
Edible Part: Shoots, seeds, heart, leaves, sap see link below
Benefits: Highly nutritious
Other Uses: Shelter, fiber
http://www.quisqualis.com/tv01ediblepalms.html
Night Blooming Cactus
Edible Part: Fruit, unopened flower and seeds
Other Uses: Juice can be used to make moonshine
http://www.eattheweeds.com/cereus-today-not-tomorrow/
Spiderwort
Edible Part: Flowers, leaves, stalk
Other Uses: Sap used on skin conditions
http://www.eattheweeds.com/spiderwort-pocahontas-and-gamma-rays/
Hibiscus
Edible Part: Flower and young leaves
http://www.eattheweeds.com/mallow-madness-the-false-roselle/
Spineless Cactus
Edible Part: Young pads & fruit
Note: Use rubber gloves to rub paddles clean peel off skin and use like an onion
Other uses: Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds
http://www.eattheweeds.com/cactus-dont-be-spineless/