Dry harvest list - PEP BB foraging.sand.dry

The smell of pineapple weed is the smell of childhood. I loved them. I remember picking a bouquet of them to my grandmother, who was not very much pleased, and so I learned it was a weed and of no use.

Until now!

Since the uses google tell me about are for the leaves and the flowers, I stripped away the woody stems before drying. Don't know if that was a waste of effort, though. What do you guys use pineapple weed for?

I found this apple tree about 10 yards from a gravel biking trail that I use to get to work. The easiest way to harvest was to climb the tree. The fancy fruit picker was too slow. I harvested much more than we needed (about 30lbs since I didn't tare the weight of the container). I'm assuming (based on the previous people who posted) that the 20lbs harvest requirement is the wet weight before any processing and core removal. I didn't weigh the apple slices after being processed.

I picked and dried rose hips.

I'll begin with harvesting pineapple weed on my walk between properties. I'll post again when I've harvested enough to meet the requirements. So far I have 5.1 + 7.9 for 13 of 16 oz.
I have never really liked the flavor of chamomile but I find pineapple weed tea really nice! go figure.

To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
Harvest, dry and store one of the following:
One pound (fresh weight) of:
    o nettle
    o mint
    o rose hips
    o pineapple weed


To document your completion of the BB, provide the following:
- A picture of one of the plants/fungi in the wild
- A picture of the bounty on a scale showing the weight
- A picture of the dried goodies in or with their storage container

I've been picking a lot of elderberries and figured it was time to dry some.

After a long summer of drought we've had a great autumn for mushrooms. Here's a few trips worth of puffballs totaling to almost 7 pounds- probably collected more, but at some point I stopped weighing everything- there was a good week that my house smelled like drying puffballs. The final picture has other collected mushrooms that I'll post in a follow up BB

6.3.oz

8.1.oz

8.8.oz

10.4.oz

11.4.oz

15.3.oz

32.6 oz

1.106 lb.oz

= 92.9 oz /16(oz/lb) = 5.8lb +1.1lb = 6.9 lb