Edgar T King on Nostr: GM all. Hope everyone's weekend is going well. Went to my mom's house for fried fish, ...
GM all.
Hope everyone's weekend is going well. Went to my mom's house for fried fish, mushrooms, hush puppies, and crab salad. The food was great, and we even did a little mushroom hunting. My mom was teaching the kids how to identify the best trees to hunt around, the different ways the terrain interacts with things making microclimates, like a sandbank in a creek with full southern exposure soaking heat into the bank and making the mushrooms pop sooner than other areas just feet away.
I tell this story to say that when you are out in the woods, you cannot overlook the value of local knowledge. My mom grew up in this area and has retired back to the same area, her specific knowledge of the local environment is a real gem when it comes to hunting, fishing, gathering, etc...
Myself, I was able to identify about 7 new species of plants that I hadn't already catalogued. I use a free app on my phone called "Seek", it's a really nice tool for those of us that have an interest in learning about the plants we come across and the uses for them. Some of the plants I came across while out walking around were Tiny Bluet, Prairie Trillium, Philidelphia Fleabane, and a fungus.. trametes conchifer.
Hope the rest of your weekends go as well as mine has so far.
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Hope everyone's weekend is going well. Went to my mom's house for fried fish, mushrooms, hush puppies, and crab salad. The food was great, and we even did a little mushroom hunting. My mom was teaching the kids how to identify the best trees to hunt around, the different ways the terrain interacts with things making microclimates, like a sandbank in a creek with full southern exposure soaking heat into the bank and making the mushrooms pop sooner than other areas just feet away.
I tell this story to say that when you are out in the woods, you cannot overlook the value of local knowledge. My mom grew up in this area and has retired back to the same area, her specific knowledge of the local environment is a real gem when it comes to hunting, fishing, gathering, etc...
Myself, I was able to identify about 7 new species of plants that I hadn't already catalogued. I use a free app on my phone called "Seek", it's a really nice tool for those of us that have an interest in learning about the plants we come across and the uses for them. Some of the plants I came across while out walking around were Tiny Bluet, Prairie Trillium, Philidelphia Fleabane, and a fungus.. trametes conchifer.
Hope the rest of your weekends go as well as mine has so far.
#grownostr