{"id":30714,"date":"2022-11-22T12:41:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T11:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=30714"},"modified":"2022-11-22T13:18:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T12:18:46","slug":"sam-thayer-and-mississippi-wapato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=30714","title":{"rendered":"Sam Thayer and Mississippi wapato"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I mentioned in my post about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=30703\">harvesting wapato in my garden<\/a> a couple of days ago, I attended the Midwest Wild Harvest Festival in Wisconsin in September 2019 to do the keynote and a couple of talks and was lucky enough to be able to attend Sam Thayer&#8217;s Wetland Plant Hike along the Mississippi during which the highlight was the demonstration of wapato harvest. There had been record flooding that spring on the Mississipi and water levels were still high which meant that the places where Sam normally harvested were too deep. However, he did find a small patch to demonstrate harvesting techniques. As Sam mentions, this is how Canada geese do it! Did I mention that I rate Sam&#8217;s 3 books above all other books on wild edibles! His book The Forager&#8217;s Harvest has 16 pages on wapato! See the videos and pictures below:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-30714-1\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wapato_MississipiA1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wapato_MississipiA1.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wapato_MississipiA1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-30714-2\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wapato_MississipiA2.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wapato_MississipiA2.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wapato_MississipiA2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-30714-3\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wapato_MississipiAA.mp4?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wapato_MississipiAA.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wapato_MississipiAA.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-30714-4\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wapato_Mississippi_Comb2.mp4?_=4\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wapato_Mississippi_Comb2.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wapato_Mississippi_Comb2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30721 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1190750.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1190750.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1190750-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1190750-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1190750-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img 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