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culinary, medicinal, & psychoactive plants & fungi

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Check out Weird Explorer, who does on YouTube what I would have loved to do with this blog.

https://youtube.com/@weirdexplorer?si=f4XoYfOapL0VlPaL

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"To grow Belgian endive is to witness one of the most marvelous transformations in the world of vegetables. The plant starts in the field as a mildly charmless, bitter-tasting, gangly, oversized dandelion looking thing. Its enormous rough taproot is then dug, the greens trimmed back, and then replanted, this time in complete darkness, where over the course of about a month a second refined, elegantly curving, dense golden leaf growth (the “chicon”) emerges from the stump."

<p><em>(C. intybus) </em>To grow Belgian endive is to witness one of the most marvelous transformations in the world of vegetables. The plan

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Zardak, Persian yellow carrots

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Opening Nipa / attap fruit

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Nina Beier, Female Nude, 2015

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coco de mer (Lodoicea maldivica) used in sculpture

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Huacatay (Tagetes minuta) - a marigold that stands taller than me - is the ‘black mint’ of black mint paste, which is the green sauce in the Peruvian potato dish called ‘ocopa’. Please share your recipes! I’ve got this growing in abundance at Roughwood and would love to try cooking with its fragrant and potent leaves. #Huacatay #tagetesminuta #ocopa #roughwoodseedcollection #peruvianfood #wakatay (at Devon, Pennsylvania)

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Autumn Olive (Elaeagnus umbellata) fruit. Considered invasive by many, this tree fixes atmospheric nitrogen in the soil and bears a massive amount of tart sweet fruit that has up to 18 times more lycopene than tomatoes. It’s a superfood in our own backyard! Glad to see it growing at Mill Hollow near one of the fields where we are growing Roughwood Seed Collection tomatoes, peppers, sweet potatoes, etc., etc. #autumnolive #autumnberries #Elaeagnusumbellata #superfood #roughwoodseedcollection #edibleinvasives (at Newtown Square, Pennsylvania)

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Potawatomi Pole Lima (Phaseolus lunatus) was given to William Woys Weaver by Andrew Bucienski from the Potawatomi Nation in Wisconsin. Lima Beans were domesticated first in the Andes around 2000BC and then a smaller type was bred in Mesoamerica around 800AD. They travelled north of the Rio Grande around 1300AD. (Thanks Wikipedia - please correct me if I’m wrong). Potawatomi are Anishinaabe people from the Great Plains, Upper Mississippi River, and Western Great Lakes. And their Lima Bean is so beautiful. If you are Potawatomi and want this bean - contact me! We only grew about this much, but I can try to increase it next year for you. #potawatomi #potawatomilima #potawatomipolelima #phaseoluslunatus #limabean #roughwoodseedcollection #williamwoysweaver #seedkeeping #seedsaving

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Noma a 2 Michelin-starred restaurant in Copenhagen, Denmark is named world’s best restaurant

“The restaurant, is described as “meticulous attention to detail, innovative approach to foraging and experimentation with fermentation - all driven by passion and a relentless curiosity - Owner-chef René Redzepi has once again brought his restaurant to the pinnacle.”

The tasting menu costs $296 a head (20 small plate servings), and the wine pairing is an additional $185

Cuisine: Seasonal, terroir-led Scandinavian

Noma

Strandgade 93 DK-1401 Copenhagen K

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The World’s 50 Best Restaurants

Noma - Copenhagen, Denmark

El Celler de Can Roca - Girona, Spain

Osteria Francescana - Modena, Italy

Eleven Madison Park - New York, US

Dinner by Heston Blumenthal - London, UK

Mugaritz - San Sebastián, Spain

DOM - São Paulo, Brazil

Arzak - San Sebastián, Spain

Alinea - Chicago, US

The Ledbury - London,UK

• For the full list click here

photo credit: magnus manske / noma (rené redzepi) / ditte isager

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Amir wearing Capsella bursa-pastoris on a necklace and looking like a goth Harry Potter.

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shepherd’s purse :D

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Fuschia plants and their edible fruit. Most fuschia berries taste “meh”, with peculiar combinations of berry-sweetness, leafy-green flavors, and black pepper flavors. Certain species and hybrids have reliably tasty fruit, and niche farmers have even gone as far as to breed commercially viable Fuschia fruit! 

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Huh, I actually had no idea they had edible fruit! Neat!

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Crosnes (pronounced “crones”) are a tuberous perennial vegetable in the mint family. Also called Chinese Artichoke, they taste a bit like Water Chestnuts or Jerusalem Artichokes and can be eaten raw, steamed, or stir-fried - and are often pickled, dyed pink with Red Shiso and served for the Japanese New Year. They look like grubs or tiny Michelin men. In this photo I am planting them right by the valerian patch. #choragi #stachysaffinis #crosnes #chineseartichokes #tuberousmint #lamaceae #perennialvegetables #roughwoodseedcollection #michelinman

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Kelly makes the Tartar Bread Plant look even sexier than it already is as she weeds the purple Plantain out from under its new leaves. The leaves and stems are used very similarly to its cousin the Seakale (blanched), but it also has a thick, fleshy, sweet root that can be eaten raw in salads, cooked as a vegetable, or dried and powdered and mixed with grain flours to make breads (similar to making potato breads). #crambetatarica #tartarbreadplant #crambe

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Heartnuts to crack! Cultivars of Japanese Walnut (Juglans ailantifolia), Heartnuts are native to Japan and Sakhalin (a large Russian island off the coast of Russia and Japan, both of whom have claimed ownership of the island in the last couple centuries). This species is resistant to canker disease and so in North America, it is now being planted instead of (and often bred with) its very close relative, the North American Butternut, which is more susceptible to the fungal disease. Many Heartnut varieties have been selected to be easier to crack than other Japanese Walnuts, and to yield a good amount of meat. These were shared with the farmers at Tobacco Road Farm in Lebanon, CT by one of their market customers. #heartnut #japanesewalnut #Juglans #ailantifolia #juglansailanthifolia #tobaccoroadfarm #hardnuttocrack #sakhalin

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