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    Post A Field Guide to North America’s Wild Crops

    A Field Guide to North America’s Wild Crops

    Spot these free-ranging versions of your favorite produce on your next hike.

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    When I was a child in New Jersey, summer meant berry picking. As the wild raspberries ripened, the emerald woods around our house became spotted with bright bursts of deep purple. We would plunge through the brambles to collect enough juicy, tangy-sweet berries to make a pie. We didn’t realize that the local black raspberries were a cousin of the plumper, red variety we bought at the grocery store. We just knew that they were delicious.

    These berries are just one of the many species of wild or feral edible plants dotting the North American landscape. Called crop wild relatives, they’re the genetic cousins of the strawberries, hot peppers, and hazelnuts found in grocery stores around the world. Many of these plants, such as chiltepins, a tiny, fiery Sonoran desert pepper from which dozens of pepper cultivars were bred, remain an important foraged food for Indigenous people. Others, like apios, were once cultivated by Native Americans; apios is no longer widely cultivated due to the European colonial destruction of Native food systems, but the species now spreads freely across eastern North America as feral plants. Species such as wild strawberries, which dot fields and forests from Oklahoma to Ontario, are native plants that agricultural breeders crossed with other species to create the produce at your local supermarket.

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    Where I grew up berries, onions, and garlic were the big things that grew wild.
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    It was berries in Northeast Ohio as well
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Where I grew up berries, onions, and garlic were the big things that grew wild.
    Growing up in San Diego, there were a lot of alleys in our neighborhood, and people's fruit trees would hang out into said alleys. We would regularly pillage all manner of plums, apricots, peaches, figs, oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, and loquats. I'm probably forgetting a few, but that's just off the top of my head. It wasn't really stealing, since most of the time, this literal low hanging fruit would simply fall to the ground and go to waste anyways. One old lady would encourage us to take her apricots, and on more than a few occasions, we would eat too many and make ourselves sick, lol. In California, some of the ornamental landscape hedges were edible as well, like natal plums, and some sort of crisp red berries I can't recall the name of. There was also a large network of canyons in the area we would roam and play in, and there, grew wild radishes, and tomatoes planted by birds, haha.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    It was berries in Northeast Ohio as well
    We have a lot of blackberries, and red raspberries on our property. Some years are better than others. The raspberries are tiny, but very delish. There are tiny wild strawberries that grow everywhere, but they are literally tasteless. I imagine they would be alright for sustenance in a SHTF situation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    We have a lot of blackberries, and red raspberries on our property. Some years are better than others. The raspberries are tiny, but very delish. There are tiny wild strawberries that grow everywhere, but they are literally tasteless. I imagine they would be alright for sustenance in a SHTF situation.
    I remember as a little boy going into the woods and picking blackberries and raspberries. Life was much much simpler back then
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    I remember as a little boy going into the woods and picking blackberries and raspberries. Life was much much simpler back then
    I would have loved growing up here, but San Diego was also pretty great back in those days. Fishing with my Dad and little bro are some of the best memories I have. Fresh seafood is the best.
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