{"id":16,"date":"2007-07-02T23:12:38","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T04:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2011-01-27T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T18:00:15","slug":"eating-off-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Eating off the land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we went for a walk along Darby Creek near our house, looking for dinner. We found it in the form of such plants as nettles, plantain, daylilies, spicebush, etc. Although these items are usually described as weeds and wild flowers rather than food sources, they are in fact edible if correctly selected and prepared. See <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.sheldontimes.com\/main.php?g2_itemId=8213\" target=\"_blank\">the dinner<\/a> that resulted.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I admit to some trepidation about all this. These plants are described as nutritious and particularly endowed with life-enhancing vitamins and minerals. But after dinner last night, I expected that I should next be either getting my stomach pumped or leading the pack in the NYC Marathon. Neither event happened, and I slept comfortably.<\/p>\n<p>Eating off the land can be considered the original &#8220;eating out&#8221; for we were gatherers before we were farmers. We are now pursuing this concept as an adjunct to our backpacking. This was Fran&#8217;s idea &#8212; part of how she never ceases to intrigue and surprise me. We are just getting started and educating ourselves using some of the fine resources available in print and online. It can add fresh food on the trail and lighten our packs at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we went for a walk along Darby Creek near our house, looking for dinner. We found it in the form of such plants as nettles, plantain, daylilies, spicebush, etc. Although these items are usually described as weeds and wild flowers rather than food sources, they are in fact edible if correctly selected and prepared. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-recreation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}