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Title: It's Gathering Time
Post by: Sully on August 17, 2008, 07:20:33 pm
Pictures I have taken of vegetation I have gathered in my area!

Black Mulberry
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/BlackMulberry1.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/BlackMulberry2.jpg)
Pear
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/DSCN0046.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/DSCN0048.jpg)
Black Walnut
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/DSCN0051.jpg)
Tart Cherry
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/TartCherry2.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/TartCherry3.jpg)
White Mulberry
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/WhiteMulberry1.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/WhiteMulberry3.jpg)
Title: Re: It's Gathering Time
Post by: Satya on August 17, 2008, 10:13:06 pm
Brilliant pics, Sully!  Did you shoot those?  What camera are you using?
Title: Re: It's Gathering Time
Post by: Sully on August 17, 2008, 11:53:07 pm
Quote from: Satya on August 17, 2008, 10:13:06 pm
Brilliant pics, Sully!  Did you shoot those?  What camera are you using?
Thanks! yes I took them with my camera. It's a small nikon digital camera. 6.2 megapixels. I croped and edited the photos on windows photo gallery.
Title: Re: It's Gathering Time
Post by: xylothrill on August 18, 2008, 12:34:37 pm
Excellent! I had no idea black walnuts would look like that. Is it a fruit? If so, is the fruit part edible?

Craig
Title: Re: It's Gathering Time
Post by: lex_rooker on August 19, 2008, 01:04:26 am
Black Walnuts are a nut like a regular English Walnut except that the shells are very hard.  It really takes some effort to crack them and get the meat out.  You'll seldom find Black Walnuts with whole or 1/2 pieces as you pretty much have to break the meat of the nut into small pieces to get it out of the shell.

What you see in the pictures are the nuts inside their husks.  English Walnuts, almonds, etc also have husks.  The husks crack open and the nuts fall out as they mature in the early fall.

Lex
Title: Re: It's Gathering Time
Post by: Sully on August 20, 2008, 12:57:43 am
Yes, the structure of the husk and shell is also similar to the coconut. First you crack off the husk, then crack the shell, then eat the nut kernals. When fall comes they fall from the trees and thats the time to gather them.
Title: Re: It's Gathering Time
Post by: Sully on August 26, 2008, 01:40:05 am
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/DSCN0069.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/DSCN0071.jpg)
Title: Re: It's Gathering Time
Post by: wodgina on August 26, 2008, 08:14:31 pm
Beautiful looking fruits  and great shots as well...I'm jealous!

We have nothing like that where I live, I have never eaten a wild berry from the bush in my life, we have nothing except a few salty leaves and acrid pithy fruits. The local aborigines would have had almost zero carbs.

I've eaten cloud berries in Norway and black berries in the UK which was a great experience.
Title: Re: It's Gathering Time
Post by: Sully on August 27, 2008, 04:53:05 am
Quote from: wodgina6722 on August 26, 2008, 08:14:31 pm
Beautiful looking fruits  and great shots as well...I'm jealous!

We have nothing like that where I live, I have never eaten a wild berry from the bush in my life, we have nothing except a few salty leaves and acrid pithy fruits. The local aborigines would have had almost zero carbs.

I've eaten cloud berries in Norway and black berries in the UK which was a great experience.
what a shame, i hope you'll one day have the experience of gathering succulent fruit  ;D, although those apples aren't wild, I found them in my neiborhood on city property, they weren't sprayed at all, you can tell because of all the worm holes, sometimes i find succulent worms inside, although i have never ate one yet, don't know if its poisonous
Title: Re: It's Gathering Time
Post by: Sully on August 28, 2008, 01:00:25 am
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/8-26-081.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/8-26-082.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/8-26-083.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/8-26-084.jpg)
Title: Re: It's Gathering Time
Post by: wodgina on August 28, 2008, 07:33:25 am
In all your shots you have amazing light and blue skies very similiar to what it's like here in Western Australia, you've inspired me to try a bit harder at gathering, I'll take some shots as well but my gathering will most likely be shell fish/crabs/worms than plants. I heading north for a holiday soon as there's plenty to gather.
Title: Re: It's Gathering Time
Post by: Sully on September 01, 2008, 10:18:43 pm
I wish you luck with gathering, its nice to eat right on the spot, then take som home for later.
Title: Re: It's Gathering Time
Post by: Sully on September 22, 2008, 11:35:43 pm
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/DSCN4032.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/DSCN4039.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/DSCN4040.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/DSCN4041.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/DSCN4042.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/DSCN4043.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/DSCN4035.jpg)

I'm competing with robins, as ou can see here...
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/DSCN4037.jpg)
Title: Re: It's Gathering Time
Post by: Sully on November 08, 2008, 02:45:59 am
the images I posted before are gone caused I moved them to a new folder. here are some of them again, sorry about that

Black Mulberry
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/BlackMulberry2.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/BlackMulberry1.jpg)

White Mulberry
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/WhiteMulberry3.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/WhiteMulberry1.jpg)

Pear
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/DSCN0048.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/DSCN0046.jpg)

Tart Cherry
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/TartCherry2.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/TartCherry3.jpg)
Title: Re: It's Gathering Time
Post by: Sully on November 16, 2008, 01:08:07 am
I threw some flax seeds in the lawn because I didn't want them. A few days later sprouts grew.

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/FlaxSprouts1.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/FlaxSprouts3.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/FlaxSprouts2.jpg)
Title: Re: It's Gathering Time
Post by: Raw Kyle on November 19, 2008, 09:47:55 am
That was fast growth for those flax sprouts. You live in a great place for gathering and growing stuff it seems.
Title: Re: It's Gathering Time
Post by: Sully on November 19, 2008, 11:05:02 pm
I guess. I'm in a temperate area. Wisconsin. But i through some spinach seeds in a pot in my house, and a few days later the sprouts came up.

Seeds that sprout very quickly when I just through them in some dirt without even burying them. I through them in pots, and outside.

Sunflower
Spinach
Flax
Title: Re: It's Gathering Time
Post by: Sully on June 25, 2010, 05:55:41 am
Tart cherries, mulberries, and black raspberries, pictures and food taken today. ;)



(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/DSCN5197.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/DSCN5198.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/DSCN5203.jpg)

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Junts2005/Hunting-Gathering/DSCN5204.jpg)

oh and mustard garlic greens