#Tag · bonfire.cafe

Pawpaw news! Here you see the first harvest of a Pawpaw tree (North America’s largest native fruit) I planted almost a decade ago.

Sitting in the bowl, they were almost overpoweringly aromatic, and the scent was sweet. Processed, they yielded three cups of pulp and a lot of seeds. The pulp went into two loaves of sweetbread.

And that’s it for this year!

Stay tuned for my Ted Talk about why you should grow your own and not forage native plants.

#NativePlants #pawpaws

A shallow bowl and a Pyrex glass measuring cup. The bowl contains several size large black seeds, which are oval and which are encased in a thin, orange, glossy layer of damp pulp. The measuring cup is full of bright orange pulp up to the 3 Cups line.

A bowl of Pawpaw fruit. There look to be about two dozen of the light green, oval fruits, many of which have darker bruises and spots as they ripen. One or two are missing the skin at one end, a little circle where the fruit was once attached to the branch, where you can see the bright orange of the flesh inside.

Climate Jenny 2.1

@ClimateJenny@biodiversity.social replied · 3 weeks ago

Why should you not go out into the woods and gather your own bowl of Pawpaw fruit? Isn’t there plenty for everyone?

The chart illustrates. No, there is NOT enough for everyone. Humans have driven the non-human living word into very narrow margins. This is one of the many reasons humans are driving a planet-wide mass extinction event.

Please, don’t make #foraging a new way for humans to colonize and extract from a suffering planet. Maybe take a sample and no more. Grow more habitat instead.

Chart shows weight of vertebrate land animals 10,000 years ago versus today, using a pie chart that looks like a map of the globe. On the left, the globe shows 99 percent wild animals and 1 percent humans — a tiny little slice. On the right, today it’s 32 percent humans, 67 percent livestock, and 1 percent wild animals.

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J blue

@jblue@mastodon.world · 4 weeks ago

This is your seasonal reminder that all acorns are edible. Many acorns require leaching. For instructions on how to leach acorns and recipe ideas, see the thread below.

#CostOfLiving #inflation #tariffs #politics #uspol #gardening #garten #jardin #foraging #food #cooking #acorns #solarpunk #SolarpunkSunday #NativePlants

https://mastodon.world/@jblue/109881330914753124

A white dish with items prettily arranged on a plate.
From the left:
Kombu dashi infused steamed daylily bulbs with culantro confetti. They are a yellowish green with green speckles.

Kombu dashi infused steamed carrots with ginger. They are sliced finely with ginger on top.

Southern live oak acorn noodles shaped into cubes with black sesame and wheat so they appear almost black.

Curled daylily leaves

And Redbud flowers on the bottom and top. They are bright pink. — A white dish with items prettily arranged on a plate. From the left: Kombu dashi infused steamed daylily bulbs with culantro confetti. They are a yellowish green with green speckles. Kombu dashi infused steamed carrots with ginger. They are sliced finely with ginger on top. Southern live oak acorn noodles shaped into cubes with black sesame and wheat so they appear almost black. Curled daylily leaves And Redbud flowers on the bottom and top. They are bright pink.

J blue

@jblue@mastodon.world · 4 weeks ago

This is your seasonal reminder that all acorns are edible. Many acorns require leaching. For instructions on how to leach acorns and recipe ideas, see the thread below.

#CostOfLiving #inflation #tariffs #politics #uspol #gardening #garten #jardin #foraging #food #cooking #acorns #solarpunk #SolarpunkSunday #NativePlants

https://mastodon.world/@jblue/109881330914753124

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Willa :v_trans: :v_bi:

@wplalonde@lgbtqia.space · last month

The purple-flowered raspberries (𝘙𝘶𝘣𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴) at Thompson Park are starting to fruit:

(This is a native species, tasty as it is lovely.)

#BloomScrolling #WildFlowers #WildBerries #flowers #BrambleBerries #berries #raspberries #foraging #Rosaceae

Several pinkish-purple flowers with pale fuzzy centers.

A cluster of wild raspberries, with two red ripe ones surrounded by developing berries in various stages from white to pale green to pinkish.

Closeup of a magenta flower surrounded by several pale green fuzzy spheres which are newly developing berries.

Willa :v_trans: :v_bi:

@wplalonde@lgbtqia.space · last month

The purple-flowered raspberries (𝘙𝘶𝘣𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴) at Thompson Park are starting to fruit:

(This is a native species, tasty as it is lovely.)

#BloomScrolling #WildFlowers #WildBerries #flowers #BrambleBerries #berries #raspberries #foraging #Rosaceae

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Brett Sheffield (he/him)

@dentangle@chaos.social · 2 months ago

Did some vegan-friendly hunting for our breakfast this morning.

Unlike the chasseurs around here with their noisy dogs and guns and hi-vis vests, I stalked my prey in complete silence and, armed only with my bare hands, went up against an adversary that actually fought back.

In the early morning light I stealthily approached the #blackberry bushes. I stared down the tiny spiders on their dewy webs as I did my #foraging

My hands are stained and bleeding, but there shall be #pancakes

A bowl of blackberries sits on the ground in front of a blackberry bush.

A wooden table with a metal bowl full of blackberries, a bowl of pancake batter, a whisk and a teapot.

Brett Sheffield (he/him)

@dentangle@chaos.social · 2 months ago

Did some vegan-friendly hunting for our breakfast this morning.

In the early morning light I stealthily approached the #blackberry bushes. I stared down the tiny spiders on their dewy webs as I did my #foraging

My hands are stained and bleeding, but there shall be #pancakes

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Eric R. Scott

@LeafyEricScott@hachyderm.io · 2 months ago

New server, new #introduction:

👋 Hi! I'm Eric! I'm a scientific programmer & educator who writes mostly code. I currently work part time at #UniversityOfArizona where I help researchers by making R packages, #Shiny apps, automated data workflows, and training them on #ReproducibleResearch practices. I also mentor data scientists for @Posit Academy. I am #OpenToWork as a contractor if any of those skills sound useful to you.

My background is in plant chemical ecology and population ecology and for my PhD I studied #tea and did field work in China. I love tea (although I've been drinking coffee more and more lately) and practice #GongFuCha when I can. I love #foraging and tasting new things.

I currently live in #Tucson but the #BayArea will always be my home.

#rstats #rse #datascience #dataviz #ecology #chemistry #statistics

Eric R. Scott

@LeafyEricScott@hachyderm.io · 2 months ago

New server, new #introduction:

I currently live in #Tucson but the #BayArea will always be my home.

#rstats #rse #datascience #dataviz #ecology #chemistry #statistics