Foraging in New Zealand

[frozenthunderbolt]

Wild food: black berries, wild peaches, tetragonia - nz spinnich (homegrown admittedly) the ripe orange fruit from the NZ pepper plant. watercress. slippry jack and feils mushrooms
deer, pigs, rabbits, peacocks

for materials, willow, seaweed, bullrushes, innumerable stones.

+ urban foraging - Love our councils inorganic collection. another time i got meters of old beautiful rimu out of the dumpster when a local college renovated and did expansions.

[rag_grrl_nz]

I've been enjoying "weeds" lately - chickweed, puha, nettles etc

[Jack]

Gidday

Hey Magpie, where abouts in the country are you? Because liver fluke are fairly well spread over the country now. Just because your sheep don't have much sign does not mean it aint there.

I have seen what the little buggers can do and now way would I like anyone to go through that.

Has anyone tried eating the weed fat hen?

[Magpie]

We're in Otago, Jack, and it's ok still haven't been game enough to try the watercress... it often has those little water snails all over it, which freaks me out a bit too. So can you see water flukes with the naked eye?

[possum]

Has anyone tried eating the weed fat hen?

i haven't, i had it as a weed several year back in a garden in the uk, forever pulling it out, i learnt later that it was good to eat. Apparently you use it as you would spinach but with a milder flavour

PS I found our neighbour has a nettle problem, just over the boundary fence, so guess what i have been picking lately?

[Jack]

Gidday

Those little flukie thingies are too small for even those little snails to see. It's the snails that complete the cycle for the flukes.