The Florida Elderberry is plentiful in many areas and is a favorite edible for those who forage for Mother Nature’s free food. While this wild food is considered poisonous in some other states (red elderberry), this particular plant produces dark purple or black looking fruit that is edible. All parts of the Florida edible elderberry ...
This incredible Florida edible is not only a favorite in the south but the prickly pear cactus is also found all over the United States. Native Indians used this food as one of their many survival foods for thousands of years. In fact there are many other species of cactus that are edible and several ...
Question: What is a growing season without weeds? Answer: Easier. From pervasive grasses to vines to large plants, there are many varieties of growth that would be wonderful specimens…if they would grow elsewhere. Here are some of the more pesky plants and weeds found in Alabama. Broadleaf Signalgrass – This is the stubborn clump of ...
Anyone who lives in, or travels through, the Southeastern United States is familiar with the Kudzu vine that appears to be taking over in some areas. However, it is actually due to the plant’s rapid growth and ability to overrun other vegetation that it was originally imported from China in the hopes of preventing erosion. ...
As a Florida edible you may wonder how pine can be considered a wild food foraging plant. Pine is not just an edible plant but it is one of the most important survival plants in Florida and throughout the world. For thousands of years native Floridians have survived by using this incredible plant. Pine has ...
To me, all plants and flowers are beautiful. I especially love ones that climb, though – except for, maybe, kudzu. Some climbing plants are weeds, like kudzu, and others are flowers. Still other climbing plants are vegetables – like the pole bean. Many people set up trellises to give the pole bean plant a place ...
Wild plants in Florida are many and several are edible, including the saw palmetto. For thousands of years native Floridians used the saw palmetto plant for making rope, cord, baskets, and edible food. Shoes and a sun visor can also be made from wild edible plants like this but here are some ways to eat ...
Wisteria: either you love it or hate it, passionately. How could a flower so beautiful, which smells so wonderful, be compared to kudzu? Wisteria grows tremendously fast and it is so aggressive, it has been known to rupture water pipes under houses, lift siding off houses, bend chain link fences and crack concrete foundations. Is ...
I love music. I guess most native Memphians do. It’s just in our heritage and our blood. We’re lucky to have some incredible live music venues downtown, but there are many more of them, scattered in unlikely places all over the city. Tourists will always frequent some of the glitzy Beale St. clubs, thinking they’re ...
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