Foraging + 2022 Growing Season in Review

"The days grow shorter and the nights are getting long. Seems like we're running out of time." - Triumph.

In tough times and supply chain breakdowns, these foraging ideas can make the difference to augment your diet, generate some side hustle income, or help grow your homestead.

Foraging stories:

• Chestnuts: The local rural elementary school has two chestnut trees. In 2021, I foraged 3/4 of a 5 gallon bucket from those trees and had enough to put up several buckets of chestnuts in sand to sprout out for Spring, plus enough to share with several friends.

• Shagbark hickory

• Pears from a scraggly set of trees in a county park.

• Pawpaws - grow along many creeks in woody parts of Eastern and NE Kansas. They may not be as good as the Eastern US cultivars, but they still taste like a cross between vanilla and banana pudding.

• So much neglected fruit of the forest = so much opportunity for a forager, homesteader, or even a side hustle.

• Extend your homestead with cuttings from elderberry and mulberry.

• Plant apples from seed. You may like the new variety.

In this episode I also review the 2022 growing season. What worked and what didn't.

Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/foraging

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