I spent time in the fields and woods of my grandparents' farm in Ohio, and remember some early lessons on what to eat and what not to eat in the woods and along the seasonal creek on my grandparent's property. So I've got a long standing interest in Ohio's woodlands, plants and animals.
My young aunts and older second cousins were fairly good wild harvesters, so we ate wild onions and celery in the woods on our "camp outs- my 12 year old relatives were Girl Scouts. We ate some other things, too. Spices were some of those things we gathered, if I remember correctly.
I was small (4 and a half years old) and don't remember beyond those few things. But I do remember berries of some sort that grew in big clumps, tiny, delicious berries in big, dangling clusters. My grandmother, a McCoy as well as a native of the Cumberland Gap area of Virginia, was also wild foods enthusiast, and she had transplanted one of these plants to her chicken yard. They were Elderberries. (I just did a search.)
Anyway, until just recently, I ate wild foods, too. Many nice, edible weeds grow in my back yard, and when DH went out of town, I ate them with noodles or eggs. that is because I've stopped cooking. DH doesn't cook things from back there, sadly. Chick weed and wild dandelion are delicious, as are lamb's quarter and mallow if you get them very young.
I want you to enjoy this blog from Ohio, so I stole this photo as a enticement to go take a longer look:
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