salsify -- wild permaculture part 2

FeralKevin revisits the salsify, Tragopogon porrifolius, in his feral garden.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• tragopogon
• porrifolius
• salsify
• oyster
• plant
• wildcrafting
• permaculture
• sustainability
• edible
• wild
• root
• foraging
• locavore

[888zzz]

What do you mean by a feral garden or feral permaculture? Did you some find a place on public land and start a garden that you don't attend to very much?

[feralkevin]

What I meant by it in this case is that I let it grow wild in my garden.  It's wild, but I manage it by not weedwhacking it down, but weedwhacking the stuff around it. Careful where I step and where I mulch, keeping it in mind. I partner with it, it's free and wild, I try to help it out if I can.

[feralkevin]

I've never heard of goat butter, have you? Grass fed butter is hard to come by, I can hardly wait to keep my own ungulates.

[finchi55]

im scared of big dandelions its very odd i just freakout when im near one

[Helioforge]

OMG OMG...Quick! Urban Death Camus, what's the antidote! : )

[zuditaka]

I find salsify growing in the wild has a tough inedible woody root--not soft like a coddled carrot grown in luxury conditions!

[neffg13]

Goats milk has smaller fat globules compared to cow's, so it is naturally homogenized, which means the butterfat is mixed in with the rest of the milk and does not seperate easily. So to make goats butter you can use a "cream seperator"(not sure how it works), or if you wait really long the cream will slowly seperate. It is not as readily available as cow's cream.

[OxEyeChai]

I'm sure that I've seen that salsify growing before in the UK, Next time I come across it I might have harvest some seeds.

[Khono]

Good question, I'm also curious. I'm curious as to how much land this kind of 'farming' requires to support someone.

[FunnyDigestion]

Do you ever have to buy Grocery-Store Food, or are you able to get everything you need from outside?