{"id":27221,"date":"2021-01-26T14:27:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T13:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=27221"},"modified":"2021-01-26T14:27:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T13:27:54","slug":"first-seed-saved-for-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=27221","title":{"rendered":"First seed saved for 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You&#8217;ll find old man&#8217;s beard or tysk klematis in Norwegian (<em>Clematis vitalba<\/em>) in Italian foraging books as the young cooked shoots are popular there in spring (they shouldn&#8217;t be eaten raw). There&#8217;s a very narrow time window for harvesting this, so I seldom eat much of it. 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