Nowadays, when we think about the food we eat, we think of food that someone has grown and harvested. Even when we plan for SHTF, we are preparing what we will plant in our gardens.
But in the past, before supermarkets and large agriculture, many people supplemented their diets with food that grew wild, provided by Mother Nature.
The forest around us supplies us with many edible plants and trees that we can forage and eat. And knowing the edible trees and plants in your area can make the difference between survival and starvation when SHTF.
So let’s talk about some common edible trees that grow in your state so that you can be prepared for any eventuality.
A C D F G H I K L M N O P R S T U V W
#1. Alabama
- PawPaw, Pecan, Hickory Nuts
#2. Alaska
- Spruce/ Pine, Birch
#3. Arizona
- Maple, Birch, Pine, Sycamore, Oak
#4. Arkansas
- Acorns/Oak, Walnut Family, Juniper, Sumac
#5. California
- Holly leaf cherry, Olives, California Hazelnut, Acorns/Oak, Pinyon Pine
#6. Colorado
- Cherry/Choke Cherry Pin Cherry Pine
#7. Connecticut
- Maple, Black Cherry, Birch, Beech, Pine
#8. Delaware
- Black Cherry, Maple, Slippery Elm, Pine
#9. Florida
- Mulberry, Persimmon, Oak, Maple, Pine
#10. Georgia
- Oak, Pine, Hickory, Maple
#11. Hawaii
- Breadfruit, Papaya, Coconut Palm, Mango, Noni, Guava
#12. Idaho
- Pines-including Pinyon Pine, Tamarack, Maple, Birch
#13. Illinois
- Black Walnut, Oak, Hickory, Pecan, American Chesnut, Linden, Hawthorn
#14. Indiana
- Pawpaw, Black Walnut, Mulberry, Beech, Hickory, Maple
#15. Iowa
- Serviceberry, Walnut, Cherry, Oak, Maple, Pine, Hickory, Mulberry, Birch
#16. Kansas
- Mulberry, Pecan, Black Walnut, Hickory, Oak
#17. Kentucky
- Serviceberry, Pawpaw, Persimmon, Pecan, Hickory, Walnut, Oak, Beech
#18. Louisiana
- Palm, Birch, Beech, Oak, Mulberry, Pine, Hickory, Walnut
#19. Maine
- Pine, Beech, Birch, Maple, Oak, Plum, Cherry, Chesnut, Butternut, Hickory
#20. Maryland
- Pine, Oak, Maple, Hickory, Beech
#21. Massachusetts
- Pine, Maple, Oak, Birch, Hickory, Walnut, Beech, Chesnut, Mulberry
#22. Michigan
- Maple, Beech, Birch, Pine, Oak, Hickory
#23. Minnesota
- Pine, Tamarac, Birch, Walnut, Butternut, Beech, Cherry, Hickory, Maple, Oak
#24. Mississippi
- Beech, Birch, Cherry, Pine, Persimmon, Oak, Maple, Walnut. Hickory, Pecan
#25. Missouri
- Eastern Redbud, Birch, Wild Apples, Beech, Oak, Pine, Maple, Walnut, Hickory
#26. Montana
- Pine, Maple, Birch, American Plum, Chokecherry, Oak
#27. Nebraska
- Pawpaw, Persimmon, Hazlenut, Walnut
#28. Nevada
- Pine, Maple, Birch, Serviceberry, Western Chokecherry
#29. New Hampshire
- Pine/Spruce, Beech, Birch, Cherry, Chesnut, Hickory, Maple, Oak, Serviceberry, Walnut
#30. New Jersey
- Oak, Pine, Walnut, Hickory, Chesnut
#31. New Mexico
- Chokecherry, Pine, Oak, Maple
#32. New York
- Serviceberry, Wild Cherry, Wild Apple, Hickory, Butternut, Walnut, Chesnut, Oak, Hazelnut, Pine, Maple
#33. North Carolina
- Pine, Maple, Oak, Hickory, Birch
#34. North Dakota
- Pine/Spruce, Cherry Oak, Maple, Walnut
#35. Ohio
- Maple, Oak, Hickory
#36. Oklahoma
- Black Walnut, Black Cherry, Hickory, Oak, Pine
#37. Oregon
- Maple, Oak, Pine, Hazelnut
#38. Pennsylvania
- Pawpaw, Hickory, Chesnut, Common Persimmon, Butternut, Red Mulberry, Plum, Cherry, Hazelnut
#39. Rhode Island
- Maple, Oak, Birch, Pine, Black Cherry
#40. South Carolina
- Pine, Oak, Maple, Cabbage Palmetto, Sycamore
#41. South Dakota
- Black Walnut, Oak, Chokecherry, Spruce, Pine
#42. Tennessee
- Oak, Pecan, Beech, Black Walnut, Pine, Black Cherry, Maple, Sycamore, Hickory
#43. Texas
- Pecan, Persimmon, Walnut
#44. Utah
- Pine, Birch, Linden, Beech
#45. Vermont
- Maple, Pine, Spruce, Oak, Birch, Chokecherry, Linden
#46. Virginia
- Plum, Persimmon, Mulberry, Pawpaw, Wild Plum, Black Cherry, Pine, Spruce, Black Walnut, Hickory, Birch, Chesnut, Beech, Oak, Sycamore, Maple
#47. Washington
- Pine, Spruce, Birch, Maple
#48. West Virginia
- Oak, Sycamore, Serviceberry, Oak, Maple, Birch, Black Cherry
#49. Wisconsin
- Maple, Beech, Black Walnut, Slippery Elm, Birch, Butternut, Black Cherry, Oak, Tamarack, Hickory
#50. Wyoming
- Pine, Spruce, Maple, Birch, Chokecherry, Oak, Linden
Acorns/Oak Trees
Oaks are common across much of the US, which is great because they are a useful edible tree. However, while you will find oaks growing in most US states, they do not grow in the central west.
You may have heard before that you can eat acorns, and it’s true.
People have been eating acorns since ancient times. While all acorns are edible (if processed correctly), some taste better than others. For example, the acorns from white oaks taste better than those from red oak.
Related: How to Consume Oak – Nature’s Powerhouse
White oaks can be distinguished from other oaks by the rounded tips on their leaves. White oak acorns taste better because they are lower in tannins. Tannins are what are responsible for the bitter flavor. If you are eating red oak acorns, you will want to leech the tannins out before eating them.
You can do this by soaking the shelled acorns for a few days or boiling them. You can also roast acorns to improve their flavor.
Once you’ve prepped your acorns, you can snack on them like nuts or grind them up into flour. You can use your flour to make porridge or dough that can be cooked into cakes.
Acorns aren’t the only edible part of the oak. You can also make wine from oak leaves.
Beech
Another tree with an edible nut is the beech tree.
Found all along the East coast of the US, once very popular beech nuts have declined in popularity since the rise of the industrialization of food.
The spiky shells and small size make beech nuts harder to process than many others, and now they are almost forgotten.
While beechnuts can be eaten raw in small quantities, the outer skin contains fagin, which is mildly toxic. However, you can gently cook the seeds and then easily remove the skin on the kernel.
Like the oak, you can eat more than just the nuts off the beech tree. In spring the young leaves can be picked and eaten, providing much needed greens after a long winter.
You can also eat the inner bark of the beech tree. Don’t harvest the inner bark of a living tree unless it is a true survival situation. Otherwise, look for a tree that has recently fallen and forage from that.
Birch
You can find birch trees of one species or another pretty much everywhere in the US.
They are distinctive because of their white, papery outer bark, making them an easily identifiable edible tree. Unlike beech and oak, birch trees don’t have any edible nuts. But don’t let that deter you. You will find that plenty of the birch tree is edible. Leaves, twigs, bark, and even sap can be added to your diet.
Leaves should be eaten young and can be steamed or sauteed. You can harvest the inner bark in the same manner as beech bark. Remove the outer layer to get to the soft inside part.
This bark can be cut into strips and boiled like “spaghetti,” can be dried, ground, and used like flour, or can even be eaten raw if you are really desperate. You can even use the twigs, leaves, and buds to make a tea with a slight wintergreen taste.
Related: How To Make Fuel From Birch
Last but not least, you can tap the sap of the birch tree for a sweet drink that you can boil down into a syrup.
Birch sap is much more watered down than maple sap so you need to harvest a lot of birch sap to get any kind of quantity of birch syrup.
Traditionally this syrup was used to make birch beer- a low alcohol fermented beverage similar to root beer or sasparilla.
Maple
Maple is another tree that is fairly well distributed across the US. We may associate maple trees with Vermont or Canada, but you can find a native maple species in every US state except Hawaii. In Hawaii, Japanese dwarf maples can grow with care, but I wouldn’t call them common.
While we all know we can get maple syrup by cooking down the sap from maple trees but did you know other parts of the tree are edible too?
Related: Trees That Can Be Tapped For Sap And Syrup
Leaves, seeds, and bark are also edible.
Pick your maple leaves in spring when they are young. You can eat them raw or cooked. They have a slight familiar maple sweetness to them. If you are really feeling creative you can fry them in tempura batter like they do in Japan.
You find the seeds in the spinny maple “helicopters” that I used to stick on my nose as a kid. In each one is a tiny seed. They are a bit bitter raw, but if you roast them, the bitterness will go away.
The bark can be harvested, dried, and ground into a flour used to thicken soups or mixed into dough or porridge.
Pine
The pine family is wide and varied and full of edible trees. The nuts from all varieties are edible, but most are too small to bother with. However, Pinyon Pines are very common and have larger seeds that are worth harvesting.
Pine needles are an excellent source of vitamin C, though I wouldn’t just eat a handful of needles. You can add small amounts to recipes for a spicy, piney kick. They also can be brewed into tea. Each pine is going to have a distinct flavor and some are more commonly used than others.
Both pine pollen and pine bark can be used as a flour substitute.
Final Thoughts
There are many more edible trees out there that I didn’t include in this list. For example, the nuts from trees in the Juglandaceae family, like pecans and hickories, are all edible. And there are many fruit trees like PawPaw, Cherry, and Mulberry trees that are edible as well.
Once you open your eyes and look around, you will find that the forest is full of edible trees.
But remember, when foraging, also make sure you consult an expert or use a guide. There are many poisonous look-alikes out there.
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Good info
I was learned by a old man about 10 yrs ago. Went to work at his house to fix his sprinkler system. Well when we got there the old man was waiting for us in the drive way. When I got out of the truck. For some reason he came up to me and grabbed my arm. Now I’ve never seen this man before that day. Well after grabbing my arm he lead me to this massive pecan tree in his yard and man was it full. He said I’m going to learn you something that just might save your life. While my boss is looking at me with this funny look on his face. Well I’m just thinking in my mind, what is going on with this old man. Then he grabbed a big plump pecan and reached in his pocket and pulled out his pocket knife and began to cut that pecan in half. Then he tells me, hold out your hand son. So I extended my hand and while he’s cutting the pecan in half and then he poured out a table spoon size of water in the palm of my hand and then he said drink it and I said yes sir with a smile and he said it’s a little bitter. But it will save your life. Yes it was bitter but, yes it was good.
I was amazed that the pecan could have so much water in it. Never been shown that.
Know the pecan was still very green at that time.
A word of caution, to much and you will get a belly ache and you will be on the pot wishing you heeded the cation.
There is a small widow of time that you can get that water. So you will need to pay action to the time of season that is the best time to get maximum water.
So just remember never pass up a chance to just stop and listen to some one. Just might learn something.
Now, I doubt if the old man is still alive. But I will for ever remember that learning time that he chose to show me on that day.
Just wanted to share that with y’all.
Just remember, The “ALL” Mighty Creator of “ALL” things that are good. My GOD gave “ALL” of “us” everything that “we” could ever need here on “His” earth to maintain a live style of good health.
Whether you “believe in Him” or Not.
Thank you Father GOD.
keep prepping…
RA: Twigs of pecans and hickory can be boiled down for salt, too! niio
September 20, 2021
On this day I wish to give Thinks to my very dear friend and survival family member Claude Davis. He is a gift from GOD to me and my family, to be so kind as to give me, The Lost Ways bundle package of survival books that are so very dear to Claude’s heart.
I will say that I had some time to go over the books and found that the info is very very informative and detailed and will be used during the time that the SHTF.
These Books are a wealth of information for daily life and most important in a survival life style. If you get the chance to buy this collection of books or just get one at a time. You will be ahead of the rest of the survival community.
With all the time that it has takin to bring together this kind of information, would take any one a life time to get.
I truly believe that Claud and his family was sent here to go thru all that they did, so they one day could bring together all this information ,so that all these book could be published. So that one day “WE” to could have so much information to help our self’s and our family and friends.
I won’t ever be able to repay My Friend Claude for the “living information” that he has put before me. I want to give you a BIG HUG and say from my heart.
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR YOUR LOVE GIFT…
May GOD and HIS SON stay by you and your family’s side until the second coming of our LORD and SAVIOR Jesus Christ.
Again, Thank You Claude and Thank your family and all the people that have help you thru your life…
Sincerely Your family friend
Red Ant…
PS: Give Anne a Hello for me to.
This is a keeper
Thank you
You forgot cabbage palms in Florida. AKA hearts of palm.
In Florida they call it swamp cabbage, delicious!
Arizona has a lot of native food trees. Oaks only do well at higher elevations. The less cap, the less tannin, but even post oak acorns can be eaten is allowed to age in the earth over winter. Dig them up about the time they start to sprout and there should be little tannin left, and plenty of sweet. If they start to green, they’ll be loaded with toxins. Blue- and Emory oaks have no tannin in the acorns. Leaching was only used by American Indians for immediate food use.
We have 3 kinds of sugar maple, starting with big tooth maple. All are tolerant of drought. Each has a nitch where it does best elevation-wise.
Some pines are toxic. Ponderosa, for one. White pine is good. Pinyon the best. Mexican pinyon can be raised in the mid desert area. Pine copnes are stored at room temp and opened with a little heat.
In Zone 8-3, look for sand cherries, a native. They rarely get over 6 feet tall and are great as part of hidden garden. These will produce from seed in only a few years. Zone 8-11, capuli cherries. Both are rum cherries, but the fruit gets bigger. Capuli trees can grow up to 40 feet in a few years from seed, and will bloom in 2-4. Capulin is another name but also the name for a semi-wild cherry from Spain that does well in my area, Zone 9. American cherries are self fertile, but European should have another Euro to cross pollinate. Capuli were domesticate several thousand years ao and Indians planted them around schools, hence the name capuli, school.
Mesquite, queen of the fields was always more popular than maize. When small, eat like green beans. When tan, let them dry out for a few months because the 27% sugar will gum up about anything. The leaves are high protein and good to feed livestock, but not only them, please. If roots encounter no calcium, they can go 200 feet deep and produce plenty of nitrogen for some crops. Bark makes cordage. The tree is good for carving dark red things, like doors and will last centuries without much shrinking. It’s cut and come again for firewood.
Mulberries do well, and the small, new leaves are good cooked or raw.
Not native, but survivors, Jujube does real well here. Carob is good, too, as long as temps do not get too much below freezing.
We have native wolfberry (native goji), plenty of cactus, and a lot more. niio
Red – You’re truly a wealth-spring of horticultural wisdom! Never fail to learn a lot reading your posts. My neighbors planted a jujube tree here in Zone 7 from seed. So far, it’s doing real well. Almost 8’ tall.
CC, we’re all, I hope on an upwards curve learning. I bought a very nice Lang jujube (five feet tall) and it thrives here. It’s first year here and it bloomed, but you cannot allow newly planted to make fruit, so the blooms had to go, but, there was no fruit at all. I did some research and found Lang is not self-fertile, but needs to be cross pollinated. I hope theirs is self-fertile! May the fruit be excellent, Amen 🙂 BTW, I got mine from Planting Justice, a group that’s highly recommended for the quality of their trees, and they hire out of prisons to give folks a head up and a way to stay legal. niio
Awesome info on Arizona! A group called Desert Harvesters has an entire cookbook based on things from the Southwest desert. If you want real Mesquite flour you’ll need a hammermill. Greg Peterson at urbanfarm.org sometimes has milling events if you’re in the Phoenix or surrounding area.
Eric: I use the blender. But, either way, mesquite has to be air dried for about 6 months or it gums things up. I learned my lesson what the ‘blender froze. Had to get new blades for it. There’s a bro in town, ex-Air Force, who’s wife will make flout, but only so much. they give me the rest of the beans from a very old, very big honey mesquite. this year, the trees bloomed 3 times, and I saw more blooms coming on older trees. We’re supposed to go ‘pear picking tomorrow. I can’t believe we ran out, but last year was a bad one. niio
Hey, red. I’ve always wondered about black walnut. I’ve always been a bit leery of eating the nutmeat because I’ve heard it’s very bitter. Is there a way to make it less bitter. I need your help with something. It’s quite important to me. Because you deal with manuscripts you must come across a lot of information. This is a serious question. I’m not trying to trick you or fool you or anything like that and it’s been bothering me for about 20 years. About 20 years ago or so when I was reading the bible much more and I still believed at least a little; one day I just randomly opened the bible and I read this. Jesus said; “Don’t worship me just live like me”. And I can’t find that saying again. I HAVE looked. Numerous times. It’s driving me crazy. Have you come across that saying of Jesus and if you have do you know where it is. I’m not making this up. I can see it as clearly as if it were yesterday. Hope you can help me with this. Peace brother.
Armin, I am jumping in a bit here before Red. I hope that you don’t mind. If I am not sure of where I think I read something or heard something that could be in the Bible, I go to Bible Gateway. There have a search program that works very quickly.
All the best to you.
Regarding Black Walnut – the nut will get bitter if the hull is left on the shell too long. The longer it stays on the shell, the more bitter the meat inside becomes. I used to have a black walnut tree in the yard. I kept an old pair of shoes, just for picking day because the hulls made such a mess on the ground and stained everything. The nuts had the green outer hull taken off, then the nuts were put in a warm sunny greenhouse to dry out.
Jesus said a lot of things we ignore, like it’s almost impossible for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, if an enemy strikes you on the cheek offer him the other cheek also, and whatsoever you do to a child, you do to me. That last one should be a little frightening to a country that just blew up 7 Afghan children in a rage of frustrated revenge. The closest verse to don’t worship me is Revelation 22:9, the Angel, traditionally Gabriel, giving John the Revelation exclaims, “No! don’t worship me, I am a servant of God just like you.” The idea of Jesus the Humble Servant is central to his teachings, his whole life was lived to redeem the Believer from death through His sacrifice. One of the most sacred ideas in our culture is the willingness to lay down one’s life to save a friend. Most of us never face that choice, one way to live like Jesus is to always try to be more compassionate.
Black walnut occurs east of I35, as you go west the varieties get smaller, the nuts tougher and more bitter. Little known fact, the sap of black walnut makes a syrup many say is tastier than maple syrup.
I don’t eat English walnuts because they’re bitter. Black walnuts have a tang and a very good, distinctive taste. There’s 2 species, Northerner macrocarpa (large shell) and from the deep south, microcarpa. Microcarpa will have more juglans oil than macrocarpa. Best use is in baked goods. Domesticated black walnuts has a lot less, and some new varietals almost no juglans, but it’s the juglans that make the walnut so popular, and so expensive. I bought a few pounds of a newish variety which tastes great, but also loves Arizona.
No place in any translation did Jesus say to just like him. Jesus accepted worship. It’s something I’ve debated imams on for years who take the word of atheists over the Bible, and use what they learned as an excuse to kill innocent people. Dawkins and others are discovering the hard way that by destroying Christianity, they allowed in Islam, and Sharia Law has only one verdict for an atheist, the rope. A very much loved friend, an elder lady from the UK and a humanist, would mock militant atheists for quoting Hitler to cut down Christianity. She said they were a bunch of arse boggers, to love Hitler so much 🙂
Be an atheist or agnostic, there’s no harm in the philosophy. But be like her who lived to follow the golden rule of every person is your neighbor. And, no, there is no eternal torture, but torment which is regret and shame.If anyone doubts this, read Hell Know, written by messianic Jews. niio
like to hear from Exodus20/Deuteronomy5, he has a learned and unique take on the Bible, has probably cracked a few walnuts in his/her time…
The pods of the mesquite can also make a good flour, as well. Just bought a book of mesquite and other Arizona foraging recipes at the Sierra Vista farmer’s market.
T: Store them in a freezer for a few weeks to kill off any miller moths. Hang them in a shady place for up to 6 months to dry out the sugar or they’ll gum up the grinder. We use a blender for grinding, then sieve the flour. Our trees are trying to bloom again, 4th time this year! We’re 40+ miles north of Tucson in Pinal Co., on the San Pedro River. Is the jaguar still in the aria? When out on field exercises about 5 years ago, some soldiers got pictures of a male. niio
I’m not sure I have much faith in a list of edible trees in Arizona that does not include mesquite.
sweet gum trees – not among the mentioned beneficials – I have a few trees out-of-region from their usual southern US habitat >> always cursed their spiny ball nut production as nothing but a waste of time & effort cleaning up the mess ….
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“What’s causing vascular damage in covid patients and covid “vaccine” recipients, promoting the strokes, heart attacks, migraines, blood clots and other harmful reactions that have already killed thousands of Americans? Recently, the Salk Institute authored a bombshell revealing that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is doing the actual damage!”
“Chemists found that the seeds in the sweetgum fruit contain significant amounts of shikimic acid, the starting material used to produce the main antiviral agent in Tamiflu that blocks the replication of the flu virus. Thomas Poon, Ph.D., revealed, “Sweetgum balls have lots of potential, but a new process uses genetically modified e. coli (intestinal bacteria), which can be efficiently grown in labs to produce shikimic acid.”
“The tiny seeds of the Sweet Gum tree contain shikimic acid at 2.4-3.7%. The bark contains smaller amounts. So, the Sweet Gum tree is a renewable domestic, natural source of shikimic acid as an antidote against the effects of covid vaccine transmission). (Source)”
Rolling out the vax worldwide under EAUs was a huge experiment on all of us, you can question the wisdom and ethics of doing it but now, after a year and 6 billion doses administered, it should be clear that all the anti vaxxer raging was just nonsense. There was never a point to it, it was always nonsense for the sake of nonsense, for the pleasure of stirring up the vast majority of Americans too poorly educated to evaluate information and pick the truth out of all the noise. The vax alone will not control the pandemic, it’s going to take a sense of social responsibility also, which seems lacking in a large % of the population.
Shikimic acid occurs in almost all vascular plants and is a primary target of the herbicide Roundup, of all things.
Judge, I’m very well educated and refused the shot because I’m well educated. Israel is now stating a 4th booster will be needed because so many of tsoe with the vax are contacting covid. Take the shot to get the virus. Covid is not a monster, but less harmful than the flu. Many of those who did die it, the elderly and infirm (both of which I am) were killed on purpose to reduce their numbers. Most of the rest had underlying factors or never died of covid. Hospitals are not being flooded with sick people. Funeral homes do not have bodies stacked to the ceiling, That’s propaganda. niio
Hey judge. Thank you for that. Maybe I DID mistake what Gabriel said for what I THOUGHT Jesus said. I’ll have to check it out. I like what you said about compassion. We should always try and treat our fellow man with kindness, compassion and respect. It becomes so difficult though when we run into the idiots, jerks and fanatics of this world. They try our patience to the extreme and it’s so easy to lose our temper with them and then say something that we later regret. Then it can’t be taken back. That’s why we have two ears and one mouth. Better to listen twice and speak once. And before we speak think twice and then speak once. To act rather than to react.
I’m well educated and I took the shot as an added measure of protection because I am a full time care giver. Israel is a technologically sophisticated country and has done good studies on the vaccine, finding Pfizer drops to 60% effective after 6 months, not very good performance. Of course our medical establishment doesn’t want to accept that. Happily, I can get a booster in about 2 weeks. The vaccine is not going to wipe out Covid, we’re more vaccinated than any other country outside of Israel and have the highest infection rate. Vaccination combined with social responsibility (caring for your fellow human) will knock it down. Wearing a mask and avoiding crowds. America ain’t going for it. Shoot, I had to run into town today, I was the only person I saw wearing an N95.
The vax is a little package of messenger RNA that enters cells near the vax site and makes them produce mimics of the spike protein, an exact copy of the Covid spike but with no RNA inside so they are harmless. The immune system responds to the mimics, produces killer cells to disable the spike, the spike mimics are dumped into the lymphatic system and flushed from the body. The immune system keeps a blueprint of the spike, and when Covid19 shows up the body quickly produces enough of an immune response from the blueprint to keep the virus from overwhelming the respiratory system. A beautiful little medical miracle that took almost 20 years to perfect. If Trump had run on this miracle he had a big part in creating he would be well into his second term and a hero. Instead, we get the ghost of Biden…
People love conspiracies but ignore the obvious ones. Most hospital care is based on protocols, if A happens you do B, and etc…One protocol is that when O2 blood saturation drops below a certain level the patient goes on a ventilator. Accepted practice when the O2 level doesn’t rise is to turn up the pressure on the ventilator. Sadly, as Covid rages through the lungs it creates a lot of trash, dead lung tissue, worn out virus, moisture from the immune response all working to clog up the ability of lung tissue to exchange O2 with the blood. Turning up the pressure doesn’t increase oxygen in the blood so, in the 1st wave, Docs all over the world kept turning up the pressure until they destroyed the patient’s lungs. This was reported on for one or two days and immediately disappeared. I believe at that time the death rate on ventilators was 80%. Crazy.
A different conspiracy of silence I can’t figure out is how an idiot doomed to hell forever killed 200 people with a suicide vest at the Afghan airport. The blast radius is so small even killing 50 would be outrageous. You can’t pack enough shrapnel into a 25 lb explosive vest to kill 200 people. At 1st we claimed there were 2 bombs, then retracted it. For a day or 2 I read accounts from witnesses saying our machine gun positions on the wall opened up on the crowd. That has been completely silenced. Nobody seems to care.
Hey, if y’all like all your conspiracy and far right maunderings on race, evolution, vaxx and politics in general, check out unz.com. Ron Unz is banned from Facebook and all that, but he prints anything reasonably intelligent written by anybody reasonably interesting, tends to be far right but some great articles on just about anything.
Judge: If you took the shot and it seems to have worked, I applaud you. Israel is talking about no more boosters.
I don’t do conspiracies, I do science. Biologists in the family refused the shot. Doctors and nurses, same. Psychologists, same. As much as I’ve been around the sick, I never caught it. Every year, I get pneumonia and bronchitis. I am considered high risk and refused the shot because it’s not for me. I know too much about how the dnc works. Gates openly said vaccines are the way to reduce surplus population by 350,000 a day. Dems are heavily invested in big pharm, again.
If you fact check, you’ll find we average one new plague every two years. Most come out of China. niio
Ugh. What nonsense. “Social responsibility “= Marxist speak for controlling people. Those opting out of the death jab were not raging. The idiot vaxers were raging to imprison us. We just wanted to be left alone and avoided morons with masks. “Judge” of nothing. Judgemental, yes.
Goes to show “highly educated” has no common sense. 99% survival rate vs experimental injection, side effects unknown. There is an abundance of science in plain simple math. There was no pandemic. The seasonal flu can be nasty, especially if engineered.
Thank you very much, Illini Warrior, for mentioning that damn spike protein. It’s in the virus and they also put it into the vaccine. And that is what’s causing the problems with the vaccine. There’s no bloody way that a vaccine should cause so many adverse reactions. I’ve know about this since early summer and may even have mentioned it on these pages but didn’t get much feedback. Am really glad that a recognized scientific institute is finally speaking up about that bloody spike protein. Too bad big pharma can’t be taken to court. What they’ve done is nothing less than a crime against humanity.
https://www.londontimes.live/health/doctor-on-covid-vax-we-screwed-up-we-didnt-realize-the-spike-protein-is-a-toxin-does-this-mean-everyone-vaxinated-is-manufacturing-their-own-spike-protein-toxins-in-their/
Mesquite is thick all over Texas, except the southeast. The various tribes here over 5000 years burned the prairies every year because it was better hunting with trees confined to bottoms and uplands, the Mexican and American emigrants forced them to stop burning around 1830 and mesquite and Juniper went crazy everywhere. The Ag Extension people don’t like Socialists but what they really hate is mesquite so nobody has anything good to say about it. Beautiful trees and, as Red says, highly useful.
Red Ant tells the good story about the old fella showing him how to get water from green pecans, sycamore is mentioned in the article as a food source but its best use is also as an emergency water source, they have good sap flow in spring and summer, the sap is too low in sugar to make syrup (50 gallons of sap cooks down to a quart of syrup) but has enough water to be worth drinking. Of course, since sycamores are usually a streamside plant you’ll only need to tap one if the water source is dry.
Wild plums are common throughout the south and lower midwest and offer the chance to preserve a large amount of sugar, a good stand of shrubby wild plums can yield around 40 pint jars of preserves. Drive the backroads around the end of February, early march, and locate them by their snow white blooms.
Allegheny Chinkapin, different tree than chinquapin oak, has the tastiest nut there is, shrubby little tree of the Southeastern forests, can be hard to find.
Judge: Mesquite was carried as far away as Alberta, Canada, by mega fauna. Livestock like mesquite if trained to eat it. Food value of leaves is equal to clover. It’s how ranchers down here survived the drought. Fact is, even when the feed is good, once they discover mesquite is good, they favor that over grass and weeds.
You can tap sycamore down here, as well, even when the rivers are dry (which is most of the year). As long as they can root deep, they find water.
In the spring, I bought two Mexican plum seedlings and a Chickasaw, and the Mexican plums are doing well, where the Chickasaw died. Wild plums need at least 16 inches of water a year, but don’t care for our devil winds. The Mexicans seem hardier, but I’ve had the fruit and liked it, but it never gets sweet.
Hey, Judge. You’re just talking about wild plums. You must know those deep blue elongated plums. Forget what the proper name for them is. I have one small tree struggling to survive. Want to save the seeds from that tree and see if I can grow a few trees in the “back forty”. They’re my favourite plum. Make an amazing cake. The other round plums are vulnerable to a fungal disease. The longish blue ones are much hardier.
Armin, to jump in ahead of the Judge, you found a European prune. It sounds like a winner and might be you have a new variety. Have you tried rooting cuttings? If the seedlings don’t work out, grafting is good and not hard to do. niio
South FL: Cocoplum, Suriname Cherry, Coconut. Fruit trees are numerous, but mostly on private property. Mango and Avocado are VERY common. Cabbage Palm is taken for the heart of the trunk, so you’re killing the tree to eat it, but it is edible. Sea Grape. For the most part, native fruit/nut trees are not all that dependable for a steady food source, imho. The oaks may only fruit once or twice a decade; their reproduction is influenced by storm activity. Besides, acorns are HARD work.
Don’t make coffee with Wild Coffee. You will pay for it.
A very good list of trees in this article. Not every pine is good. Ponderosa Pine needles give off a poisonous substance that even cows eating the grass under a Ponderosa Pine after a rain get affected.
There is a company, maybe in Georgia, that is selling White Pine needles to make tea of to extract the shikimic acid for those who want to mitigate the damage from taking the mRNA vax or getting this current flu or any other yearly flu. Shikimic acid is also available in star anise seeds, which is where the manufacturers of Tamiflu get their active ingredient.
They are good for bark flour. The inner layer of the bark.
No, no, no red. I didn’t say anything about Jesus saying just to like him. What I read was Jesus saying, Don’t worship me, be like me. Or live like me. In other words to do as Jesus does but not worship him. This blew my mind because everyone wants to worship Jesus. This is not a false memory. I can see it as clearly as if it was just yesterday. And it was in red meaning it was said by Jesus. Perhaps as the Judge says, I was reading something that Gabriel said and I just THOUGHT it was by Jesus. Maybe. But my feeling is that it was something that Jesus said. I’ll have to look into it further. It’s bugging the heck out of me and it IS like a splinter in my mind. Won’t leave me alone. Thanks red. Peace brother.
I wonder if you saw a Bible that had been edited to follow the teachings of a small splinter group? Sometimes, those splinter groups change just a few things in their edition so it’s hard to catch right away.
That’s actually a very good thought, Lin. But no. It was a regular bible not part of any cult or anything like that. 😉 But as I say I was so flabbergasted by what I had read I even discussed it with other people. I’ll have to check out that quote by Gabriel in revelations and see if it’s even close. Appreciate your kindness. As a postscript I have even read the Mormon bible. Or tried to. Garbage. Was so disgusted by it I threw it out. Hopefully you’re not a Mormon because then I would be insulting your scientilogical religion. If you are a Mormon then good for you. We all have to make our own decisions about things like that and I have no business judging people for choosing one religion over the other. Again thank you.
Armin: Nowhere can I find that. Lin knows her stuff and I agree, it sounds like something a cult leader or an apostate would claim. Jesus told the Sanhedrin he is God and they tore their clothes thinking he committed blasphemy.
https://answersingenesis.org/bible-questions/where-did-jesus-say-i-am-god-worship-me/
https://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-worshipped.html
The website did it again, red, but I had saved my comments beforehand so now just paste and post. This is one of the few times that the website wouldn’t let me post twice in a row. What can I tell you, red. I don’t know what to say. I’m almost thinking of going to one of the local pastors and asking them. I’m telling you truth as difficult as it is to believe. Just a regular bible. My own bible not something I picked up at a garage sale from a shady character. Randomly opened it and there it was. Couldn’t believe what I was reading. And what annoys me to no end I can’t find it again. Even went to Rev. 22 as the judge suggested but that wasn’t it. I don’t want to go all woo woo on people and say that God took a hand in what happened that day but I really don’t have any other rational explanation. And if God did take a hand in what happened then that was a small miracle. Maybe it was a miracle and I didn’t recognize it as such at the time. I suppose they do happen. There must be a reason why I can’t find it again. And why I saw it in the first place. Didn’t imagine it. Wasn’t drunk or high. And it made such an impression on me that I still remember it so clearly even today. It’s not a false memory. The only other option I have right now is to go through all the bibles I have on hand and see if I can find it again. Maybe another reason that I saw it was as a precursor to today to make me crack open my bible again. The universe works in mysterious ways. And I don’t know why it’s bothering me so much at this point in time. Maybe because of all the other stuff going on around us at the moment. I want to sincerely thank you and all the others for trying to help me with this puzzle. Now it’s up to me. If I do find it again I’ll DEFINITELY let all of you know. This is kind of a mind-blowng thing for Jesus to supposedly have said. As for those plums, red, taking cuttings is plan B. Right now I’ll take the seeds I have. Plant them in the ground. Protect them from the squirrels and see if I can get at least a couple of those trees to grow. I want to put in some more apple trees along with those plum trees. I don’t have a really big backyard. Let’s just say it’s quite……busy. I’d rather have the backyard full of fruit trees rather than not. And my neighbours are so foolish. They’re afraid of bees. They don’t eat apples. Instead they throw them away. They don’t realize the bounteous harvest we’ve been given this year. The day will come when they’ll miss my apples. Thanks again, red. Peace brother.
Sorry, red. Did something wrong. Now it’s messing up my name. Sigh.
Armin: If you found it in a bible then it was a typo.
One thing I learned to do about messy posts is, write it on a file page, then copy and paste into the post area.
Definitely, plant those pits! Direct rooted trees are far more healthy than transplants. Old-timers would take seeds of the best with them, which is how western plums became eastern plums. Europeans did the same, but also gave us grafting. there’s a site somewhere on old varieties of fruit, how pioneers planted seeds from fruit they carried with them and kept the best ones. Oregon thinks they may have had over 1,000 varieties of apples before they became a state. That’s how it was done. niio
Listing wild plants is all well and good, but in an EOTW situation, don’t overlook cultivated trees. In CA we have lemon trees, orange trees, avocado trees, apricot trees, peach trees, plum trees, we are now the world’s largest grower of pistachios which grow on trees. We grow almonds and NorCal used to be a major walnut growing region until it grew more valuable to grow computers. Then there are al kinds of exotics such a pomelo which looks for all the world like a grapefruit but is much sweeter. In the desert around Indio date palms grow, but gathering dates from date palms is difficult as the trees are quite tall. Date farmers use hydraulic lifts to harvest the dates. In third world countries the citizens climb the trees to harvest the dates. That activity is not for the faint of heart.
In my clueless youth I cut down a neighbor’s 30 foot plus black walnut tree for him. He provided the chain saw and paid me $100 for doing the job. He burned up probably more than a cord of black walnut wood in his fireplace. I didn’t kill the tree. There is a forestry term for doing what I unknowingly did. There are forests in England that are hundreds of years old that have been logged for that whole period. You don’t cut the tree off at the ground. You cut it off about 10 feet up. It will sprout new branches and in 30 or 40 years, depending upon the species, will have huge branches that supply a goodly supply of lumber. Repeat the process every half a century.
Just because the end of the world has happened doesn’t mean that all those trees will disappear. It will take a while without irrigation for them to die off. In the meantime, unless some misguided fool cuts them down for firewood, they will bear fruit, albeit not in the abundance and not in the large sizes one sees in the market. Don’t overlook what is right in front of you.
Cutting a tree off at a specific height is called coppicing, an ancient practice with fruit trees and also in wood lots. I have some tree books from the 1950s that include the suitability of the tree for coppicing in every description. The Van Gogh olive grove paintings are of ancient coppiced olives. I have a couple trees on the property I want to coppice, but my wife will kill me if I do…
Yes, you are correct, coppicing is the word I was trying to find in my convoluted data banks. I think some of the data I have stored away is corrupted or was written in a code that my brain can no longer process.
A great many species can be coppiced. I have a blue gum which is a type of eucalyptus that I coppiced about 30 years ago. The sprouts from that work are as thick as the original trunk when I did the job on it. I can’t do anything with it any more because the city hired a arborist to care for the trees in the city parks. Like all bureaucrats, he looked around for ways to expand his empire and now all the trees along all the streets are “city property” and citizens who were caring for them for almost a century are forbidden to touch them. Of course, tree maintenance is no better than when the city’s official policy was to ignore them but citizens can no longer alter them as they see fit.
Judge: Probably because you want to cut them off at ground level 🙂 In both world wars, the biggest obstacle we experienced, I’m told, was not the nazis but hedges. Tanks couldn’t roll over them, they were that strong.
Some were centuries old and the way they made them was by coppicing. Brush came up thick and was cut back (often for winter feed). After a generation or so, the hedge was so thick rabbits had trouble going thru it.
I think it was Patton who demanded saws on wheels like foresters use to cut back brush. For a hedge that works and feeds us, some fruits work well. Mesquite sure does. niio
LCC: Bah, you’re bright and articulate. You and the Judge made my list of must-read here. Miz Kitty, Claude, ClergyLady and some few others like the Aussie ladies. niio
Red: They used tanks with Rome plows on the front to destroy the hedgerows. The device is called a Rome plow because it is manufactured by the Rome tractor company. We also used tanks with Rome plows in Vietnam to make paths through what had been impenetrable jungle. I didn’t know about Vietnam but I did know about WWII and the hedgerows in Normandy and the difficulties our troops had with them. They made excellent defensive positions for the Nazi machine gunners.
According to on=line sources, the Rome plow is a large blade with a solid metal beak on its front that is used to rip the roots of the vegetation from the earth thus enabling the blade to push the uprooted vegetation aside. I think the Rome Tractor Company may be located in Rome GA which certainly make a bit of sense.
LCC: You’re right, but they did us saws. What I forgot was, when wire was finally mass produced (1880s), a lot of farmers there used it on newer hedges to keep wild boar out of the fields. That kind of puts the kibosh to a good saw. The Roman plow is still used to knock out heavy brush on ranches. niio
No, Lin. I don’t mind at all. I’ll accept help from anyone offering it. I’ll go to bible gateway and see if I can find it. I thank you for that. Very recently I did go to a website that listed all the sayings of Jesus in the new testament. Didn’t find what I was looking for. Maybe there are some sayings of Jesus in the old testament. As I say this is bugging the heck out of me and I don’t know why I need to know this NOW. Appreciate your help very much. All the very best to you and yours. Stay safe.
Armin, I am glad that you’re not just letting this go and are doing your best to research the truth. Today’s world is getting weirder and weirder, so we all need to have our spiritual house in order. God designed us in a particular way so that certain actions fit in well with how we prosper and are healthy. He designed us to worship Him. Those who do worship Him, are generally much happier for it. We all have different ways. My personal favorite is playing my old Jesus People era record albums and singing along. That might not be the way for anybody else on this forum.
I have a Bible that I have had for well over 40 years. Through the years, I have written in the margins my thoughts, which I thought were profound at the time. Recently, I took out some white-out tape and covered over a bunch of those “profound thoughts”. I was way off base years ago and wrote some goofy things down. Our faith walk is a growing process.
Just to clarify, I am not Mormon. I live in an area that has a high LDS population. I have studied their teachings well enough that I would love it if those missionaries would come to my door so that I can point out the inconsistencies but, I guess the word is out. They must know that I can’t be swayed in their direction. They are lovely neighbors and I really wish that they would see the truth.
Edible trees in in the wild in Utah also include: Chokecherry, elderberry, serviceberry, juniper, scrub oak, sumac, hackberry, Russian olive, maple, and hawthorn.
Colorado, too… Chokecherry, elderberry, serviceberry, gooseberry, juniper berry, Gambel oak, sumac, hackberry, Russian olive, maple, and hawthorn.
Gambel oak has very little tannin. Only needs a couple cool water soakings. We ground their acorns for “flour” that makes cookies very tasty. In pancakes too. Half and half regular flour. Also, we use the ground acorn perked with coffee. Very tasty.