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 Easter ...