{"id":480,"date":"2015-01-10T14:14:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=480"},"modified":"2022-01-29T13:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T12:00:17","slug":"riceroot-and-hog-peanuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"Riceroot and Hog Peanuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like the comment by Eve Emshwiller in the interesting article\u00a0http:\/\/whyfiles.org\/2012\/farming-native-american-style<\/a> \u00a0looking at how to learn from how the Native Americans\u00a0had developed stable, sophisticated food-gathering systems:
\n\u201cThere were a lot of people who were not considered agriculturalists, who were [supposedly] just gathering from the wild. But if you really understand what they were doing, there is not a sharp line between gathering and farming. There is a huge continuum of ways that people manage resources and get more from them.\u201d \u00a0This is a message that I try to get across in my book where many examples are given of this continuum between foraging and gardening.<\/p>\n

I grow a couple of the wild gathered tubers mentioned in the article. First, Riceroot is a really hardy edimental \u00a0and an important foraged food plant across its range (the first group of pictures below). The last three pictures are of Hog peanut (Amphicarpaea bracteata).<\/p>\n

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A beautiful yellow flowered form of rice-root<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The rice is the small bulbils just below the surface<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fritillaria camschatensis with the normal coloured flowers known as Svartlilje (Black Lily) here in Norway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The rice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Hog peanut seed pods harvested in my garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hog peanut subterranean seed, this plant is unique in having two types of seed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I saw hog peanut in its native habitat in Vermont this summer, here at Mt. Tom, Woodstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I like the comment by Eve Emshwiller in the interesting article\u00a0http:\/\/whyfiles.org\/2012\/farming-native-american-style \u00a0looking at how to learn from how the Native Americans\u00a0had developed stable, sophisticated food-gathering systems: \u201cThere were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10,17,11,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climbers","category-edimentals","category-food","category-forest-gardening","category-perennials","category-root-crops"],"views":7109,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29921,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/29921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}