{"id":3635,"date":"2016-02-04T20:03:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T19:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2016-02-04T20:03:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T19:03:36","slug":"the-wild-greens-of-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=3635","title":{"rendered":"The Wild Greens of Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are still many undiscovered (in the west) perennial edibles in the Far East. I&#8217;m therefore now concentrating mainly on that area in this quest. This spring I will travel for 3 weeks in Japan as part of this work. Another &#8220;country&#8221; with a rich diversity of food plants is Korea. With help from my Norwegian \/ Korean friend Misoni Sandvik whom I mention in my book, and who is on her own quest to find and grow wild herbs she remembers foraging when she was a child in South Korea, I&#8217;ve received two books from Korea today entitled &#8220;The Wild Greens of Korea&#8221; and &#8220;The Medicinal Herb of Korea&#8221;. There&#8217;s often a diffuse boundary between food and medicine in Korea, so the second book is also relevant, including plants like Aralia cordata (Udo)!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3636\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1510912.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3636 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1510911-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1510911\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1510911-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1510911.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aralia cordata (Udo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3637\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1510912.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3637 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1510912-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1510912\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1510912-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1510912.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aster scaber (Korean Asters), the plant that lead to Misoni contacting me as related in my book, a plant she was looking for that I had on my seed list!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1510912.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1510914.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3638\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1510914-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"P1510914\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1510914-300x212.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1510914.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1510915.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3639\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1510915-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"P1510915\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1510915-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1510915.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are still many undiscovered (in the west) perennial edibles in the Far East. I&#8217;m therefore now concentrating mainly on that area in this quest. 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