Nourishment From Your Yard

Nourishment From Your Yard


Are you saying I can get enough sustenance from my yard to live on for the rest of my life?

YES!


Look at the list of things you can actually live on from your
own yard!
And never spend your hard earned cash on food again!



Animals


Any animal can be eaten, though some may need special preperation

Bats need THOROUGH cooking to be considered 'safe'

Its best to eat poisonous snakes as a last resort, seeing as some can be VERY DEADLY!

Gila monsters, Mexican bearded lizard and Komodo dragons are VERY DANGEROUS lizards!

If you have water in your yard you want to avoid:

Electric eel

Piranha

Large freshwater turtles

Platypus

All birds are FAIR GAME

Most animals can be eaten raw if needed


Insects


most insects can be eaten

Beware of:

Scorpions

Spiders: the brown recluse, widows, funnelwebs

Tarantulas may be eaten but BE CAREFUL catching them

Some centipedes and millipedes

Tick

Leeches

Most insects can also be eaten uncooked


Plants


Besides all the known harvested plants

You can also gain nourishment from:

Abal

Acacia tree

Agave (Caution: may cause dermatitis in some individuals)

Almond tree

Amaranth

Arctic willow

Arrowroot

Asparagus (Warning: don't eat the fruit!)

Bael fruit

Bamboo (Warning: green bamboo may explode in a fire)

Banana and plantain

Baobob tree

Batoko plum trre or shrub

Bearberry or kinnikinnick

Beech tree

Bignay shrub or tree (Warning: in large quantities may have laxative effect)

Blackberry, raspberry and dewberry

Blueberry and huckleberry

Breadfruit tree

Burdock (Warning: don't confuse with rhubarb, which has poisunous leaves)

Burl palm tree (Caution: may cause dermatitis in some individuals)

Canna lily

Carob tree

Cashew nut tree (Caution: grean hull of nut is an irritant, raw cashews may be fatal to those with extreme reactions to poison ivy)

Cattail

Cereus cactus

Chesnut tree

Chicory

Chufa

Coconut tree

Common jujube

Cranberry

Crowberry

Culpo tree

Dandelion

Date palm tree

Daylily (Caution: excessive amounts of flowers may cause diarhea)

Duchesnea or indian strawberry

Elderberry(Warning: only flowers and fruit are not poisonous and edible)

Fireweed

Fishtail palm tree

Foxtail grass

Goa bean

Hackberry

Hazelnut or wild filbert

Horseradish tree

Iceland moss

Indian potato or eskimo potato

Juniper (caution: don't confuse with a cedar)

Lotus

Malanga (Warning: always cook first)

Mango tree (Caution: avoid eating if sensitive to poison ivy)

Manioc (Warning: always cook the roots)

Marsh marigold (Warning: as with all water plants don't eat raw)

Mulberry (Caution: in quantity may act as laxative and cause other ill effects)

Nettle

Nipa palm

Oak (Warning: prepare special or face possible kidney failure)

Orach

Palmetto palm tree

Papaya or pawpaw tree ((Warning: don't get milky sap from fruit in your eyes)

Persimmon (Caution: some people cannot digest thhe pulp)

Pincussion cactus

Pine

Plantain, brond and narrow leaf

Pokeweed (Warning: do not eat raw. do not eat underground portions)

Prickly pear cactus (Caution: avoid any prickly pear with milky sap

Pursiane

Rattan palm tree

Reed

Reindeer moss

Rock tripe (Warning: some types may be poisonous)

Rose apple tree

Sago palm tree

Sassafras

Saxual

Screw pine

Sea orach

Sheep sorrel (Caution: cook first)

Sorghum

Spatterdock or yellow water lily

Sterculia(caution: avoid eating large quantities)

Strawberry (Warning: eat only white flowering ones)

Sugarcane

Sugar palm (Caution: flesh covering the seeds may cause dermatitis)

Sweetsop (Warning: grond seeds are poisonous)

Tamarind

Taro, cocoyam, elephant, ears, eddo, dasheen (Caution: don't eat raw)

Thistle (some species may be poisonous)

Ti

Tree fern

Tropical almond tree

Walnut tree

Water chestnut

Water lily

Water plantain

Wild caper

Wild crab apple or wild apple trees (Warning:don't eat apple seeds)

Wild desert gourd or colocynth

Wild dock and wild sorrel

Wild fig

Wild gourd or luffa sponge

Wild grape vine (Warning: don't eat grapes with one seed)

Wild onion and garlic (Warning: only eat those with oniony smells)

Wild pistachio

Wild rice

Wild rose (Caution: seeds are prickly and can cause internal distress)

Wood sorrel (Warning: eat only small portions)

Yam

Yam bean (Caution: raw seeds are poisonous)

Only certain parts of these plants may be edible


I haven't paid for groceries for 10 years!


For preperation instructions


All information on this page is confirmed factual by F.I.S.H.H.


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