Wild Edibles with Linda Runyon

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Wild Edibles with Linda Runyon

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“Weeds are in every country of the world, so it’s beyond me why there is world hunger. An entire civilization is walking on their food.”

   Linda Runyon spoke these words after years of teaching herself how to live from the land. “I have this driving force to let others know they can survive. I see pictures of Afghanistan children eating bread made from grass. They are actually eating healthy food. Starving people are probably walking on food that would keep them alive, if they knew how to use it. Wild foods can be dried and kept for decades, and their seeds can be planted to grow again after all that time,” she says.

   Linda’s knowledge and expertise come from years of wilderness living, and learning on her own just what foods were safe to eat. She became familiar with medicinal herbs as well, as an offshoot of her friendship among members of an Iroquois Indian tribe in the Adirondacks wild, where she lived for many years.

   Survival Acre is the first book Linda published about her years of education by Mother Nature. It came into being after she left the Adirondacks to care for her ailing parents in Phoenix. Other publications include “Wild Food and Coloring Book” and The Essential Wild Food Survival Guide, discussed in more detail in the “Testimonials” section of this website.

   Most recently, Linda created a survival pack of wild food identification cards which are now available to soldiers through a military action gear company. “When I watch the news and see the soldiers walking in the fields, I see food everywhere in every country. There are 2,000 plants out there that can be eaten freely,” notes Runyon. “I wanted to make these cards available to every military person to help educate them. It makes me feel so good that a soldier can now purchase these cards and may give them to a family that may benefit from them.”

   And then there’s this, from Genesis 1:29 of the Bible, where Linda notes that it is written, “Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”  

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[mtex]

With regards to using pine-trees in cooking.

Like Christie, I too am kind of a home-grower. I have veggies as well as herbs in my backyard in Greece. I also have a public square of about 52 huge pine-trees in front of my house. Because of this, the rosemary in my backyard has a slight pine-y smell to it, which makes for lovely tea. This means that you can combine pine with rosemary. If pine-tea alone, as suggested by Linda in this podcast, is too intense for you, combine it with rosemary for a more gentle tea. Same with the soup, or using pine to make broth: just add rosemary together with pine. Lastly, if you eat fish, you can fill up the fish with a twig of pine and a twig of rosemary.

Some suggestions from a fellow cook & home-grower!

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Oh nice Mtex and thanks for the advice!  :-)
I love pine and rosemary!  Just had some rosemary potatoes with cabbage for dinner tonight! 

I also learned on the show tonight that rosemary can help with your memories...think I'm going to be drinking a lot of rosemary tea!  I have a big bush that I brought inside for the winter so I will have fresh rosemary all year.  :-)



Greece?  You live in Greece?  You lucky gal!  Are you from there?  I can't wait to get back there this lifetime! 

Maybe you'll be seeing some x hosts here soon...  LOL

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I spend half the year up North, in the Netherlands, and half the year down South, in Greece. Kinda like a migratory bird, only I fly the wrong way up in autumn, LOL! I have fallen in love with California though, and I want to go back as soon as I can. I know you left it, but if it wasn't for the economy and the political situation, California is just beautiful, North to South.

Your rosemary looks great. This year I had a big bush of rosemary, 2-3 different types of mint, 2 different types of basil, dill, you name it. We love herbs too! And I know for a fact that they really do work!

Where I live, wildcrafted food is everywhere: carob, berries, dandelions, nettle, purple amaranth... I had so much of purple amaranth in my back-yard this year, I gave two bags to the woman at the organic store, and she gave me 2 cans of bamboo. Yay for the exchange economy! :-)

I made those green burgers that Linda mentioned in the previous TB show (the one she did before the one you posted above), using purple amaranth instead of the plant she mentioned, and they were DELICIOUS! I just chopped up a bag of amaranth leaves, one egg, one chopped onion and pinch of salt. Add one slice of bread and a tomato and you can make enough lunch for 4 people. How much does this cost, about $1 a person?

And Christie, we are still fixing the house, it's going to take a few years to get it all fixed, but as soon as it's done, I am hoping to open it up to friends who want to visit. I'll add you to the list, hahaha!

Tex.

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WOW!  That sounds lovely!  Fresh carob???  YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

I would love to see photos of that!  :-)

Since you're not on facebook, I will post some photos of my herbs here...hopefully one day will be on a real site so I don't have to deal with these restrictions of those smart enough to not be on facebook...  :-)

We have a TON of amaranth here!  I mean seriously, we walk on more food than we consume in a day.  Too bad people are so damn lazy, they will never see how abundant mother nature really is! 

My whole kitchen and dining room and beyond are full of herbs drying right now...seeds for the next season and beyond.  I hope to sell my seedlings this year.

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more from the big garden...

[mtex]

That is just beautiful. Sheer beauty.

That truly was your heaven. I hope one day you can all go back to that.

I hope your girls close their eyes and dream of all this, and never forget.

Tex.

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Here are my homegrown tomatoes (local heirloom variety):



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Fried zucchini flowers (I ate these almost every day):



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Tex.

[mtex]

And here's what I found when I visited the Whole Foods store in California:



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Just imagine my bafflement: they actually *sell* dandelion at Whole Foods!   LOL!
I pluck it for free in my backyard in Greece! That was a bit of culture shock for me.

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Oh wow,that is soooo beatiful!  :-)
Thanks for sharing!

How funny, buying dandelions, huh?  Your zucchini flowers look amazing!  :-)

nice to meet someone who cares about what they put in their body.
You know I see a lot of people talking the talk, but rarely do they actually step up and walk the walk.

Congratulations to you!!!

How are the foods in Greece compared with here?  More GMO, less...?  Do people care more about what they put in their body or is there a Micky D's on every corner...?

[mtex]

Here's another picture from my backyard:

One of my cats next to a big squash! Makes for biiig Greek PITA, or pumpkin pie (savory, not sweet)! You can also see some of the purple amaranth in the background. The greenery right in front of the cat is actually wild-crafted Greek purslane, one of the edible weeds Linda talked about on your show! I add them to my salads.



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Hahaha, my garden is such a jungle, whereas yours is so tidy!

nice to meet someone who cares about what they put in their body.
You know I see a lot of people talking the talk, but rarely do they actually step up and walk the walk.

I know Christie.
I try not to be judgmental of other people, I know it's hard, but on the other hand, what goes in goes out, I can tell that what people put in their mouths affects their emotions, their behaviour, not to mention their health. In fact, you can quote me on this: I think food is more controversial a subject than sex. People are really emotional and kneejerk about their "chow", to reference Deborah Garcia-Koons.

 I try to walk the talk. This summer I've grown tomatoes, zucchini, onions, starwberries, corn, watermelon, cantaloupe, the herbs... I try to grow at least a portion of my food myself. Growing my own food is one of the most fulfilling experiences in my life. I am not kidding.
I was lucky because I had a mother who was a cook, so in my household we were always very food conscious. Not that we always had the means to buy wholesome food, but at least we could discern wholesome food from all the unfoods out there.

How are the foods in Greece compared with here?  More GMO, less...?  Do people care more about what they put in their body or is there a Micky D's on every corner...?

Oh Christie, this is such a depressing subject... as people in Western European countries are becoming more and more conscious of the toxic chemicals in the processed unfoods - aspartame, MSG, petrol derivates - and are refusing to eat the unfoods, these unfoods are not dumped by the trash, but are simply exported to poor countries like Greece. Why is that? Because the Big Unfood Manufacturers have discovered that the people in the poorer countries are too uneducated and generally  uninterested to care about what they are eating (and now, too bankrupt to afford the organic foods!).

And if the obesity in Greece is an indicator... it's true! Obesity in Greece is so bad, it even has it's own Wikipedia page!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Greece

Greeks sadly no longer follow a Mediterranean diet. They just stuff whatever in their mouths.

Fortunately, because of the economic depression, the home-grown gardens are making a come-back! The unfortunate thing is that the villages and small town, where people have big gardens in which they can homegrow, are increasingly deserted, everyone is moving to the big cities to find a job, and tending your own garden in a big city is just too difficult.

People who need clean nurturing food the most - urbanites who live stressful lives - are those who are the least likely to have access to it. I feel for those people.

Tex.