Search...
Home Subscribe
Pie
Home Subscribe
Recent topics Flagged topics Hot topics Best topics
Search...
Search within plants Search permies
Advanced search Google search
Register / Login
rocket mass heater dvd
  • Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
Better wood heat kitty blue Free heat movie permaculture bootcamp woman working on barrel PDC ATC vids SKIP=SKills to Inherit Property PEP Permaculture Experience According to Paul
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Carla Burke
  • Nancy Reading
  • John F Dean
  • r ransom
  • Jay Angler
  • Timothy Norton
stewards:
  • paul wheaton
  • Tereza Okava
  • Nicole Alderman
master gardeners:
  • M Ljin
  • Christopher Weeks
gardeners:
  • Jeremy VanGelder
  • thomas rubino
  • Megan Palmer

Plants where all of it is edible

 
Jennie Little
gardener
Posts: 620
Location: New England
276
I like...
cat monies home care books cooking writing seed wood heat ungarbage
posted 6 years ago
  • Likes 7
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Turnips, beets. Nasturtiums too. Chickory. And sweet  potatoes?  I didn’t know the leaves were edible!

Are there lettuces where you also eat the roots? I know that there are some you eat the flower stalks, but don’t know which ones.

Is there a list? Except obviously you can’t keep them growing, it always seemed to me  to be the most efficient type of plant to grow...

Finished 2 life quests (well... almost). Wondering what to do next? Zone 5b

 
Tyler Ludens
pollinator
Posts: 11856
Location: Central Texas USA Latitude 30 Zone 8
1287
I like...
cat forest garden fish trees chicken fiber arts wood heat greening the desert
posted 6 years ago
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I believe virtually all parts of Moringa are edible.  It can be grown as an annual in a cold climate, but must be started in warm temperatures.  http://www.fao.org/traditional-crops/moringa/en/

Idle dreamer

 
Olga Booker
pollinator
Posts: 713
Location: South West France
263
posted 6 years ago
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Radishes and carrots spring to mind.

Love is the only resource that grows the more you use it.
David Brower

 
wayne fajkus
gardener
Posts: 3074
Location: Central Texas zone 8a
827
2
I like...
cattle chicken bee sheep
posted 6 years ago
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Chayote

Sometimes the answer is nothing

 
Anne Miller
steward
Posts: 18818
Location: USDA Zone 8a
4761
I like...
dog hunting food preservation cooking bee greening the desert
posted 6 years ago
  • Likes 9
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
This is a great topic!

I am probably the only person who eats spaghetti squash rind.  I roast it like acorn squash.

I feel that almost all parts of vegetable plants can be eaten though the problem is that some parts are not palatable.  Most roots and stems are too stringy.

This year the deer ate all the leaves off the tomatoes, peppers, watermelons and squash.  They must have enjoyed them though I have no desire to eat any of those leaves.

https://permies.com/t/58961/culinary-tomato-foliage

In Mexico, Corn Smut is a delicacy.  Our corn got it one year and I had no desire to try it.

https://permies.com/t/124120/Corn-Smut-huitlacoche

https://permies.com/t/35173/eat-corn-smut


Invasive plants are Earth's way of insisting we notice her medicines. Stephen Herrod Buhner
Everyone learns what works by learning what doesn't work. Stephen Herrod Buhner

 
Blaine Clark
Posts: 113
Location: West-central Pennsylvania
57
posted 1 week ago
  • Likes 12
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Where'd everybody go?
I'll add Sunchokes, AKA Sunroots, Helianthus tuberosus, and by the Algonquins Kaishúcpenauk.
The flowers after being steamed or boiled taste like squash. I've used the broth from boiling them to make wine.
The leaves are hairy, so don't throw them raw into a salad, but when cooked they take on the flavor of anything they're mixed with and the fuzzies disappear.
The tender sprouts or the tender upper stalks when boiled or steamed have a flavor I can't describe. I'm drying and powdering some for flavoring.
The tubers of course are great food cooked any which way or even raw, dehydrated raw and ground into flour, dehydrated after boiling or steaming and made into instant mashed 'choke powder. I've made wine from the boiled tuber broth too.

Try Linux on your computer, free, stable and maintenance free. Distributions I recommend are Linux-Mint and Debian. Better than throwing your PC away when Windows rejects you.

 
Robert Ray
gardener
Posts: 3458
Location: Cascades of Oregon
922
posted 1 week ago
  • Likes 9
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Hollyhock
fava bean
scarlet runner bean

Our inability to change everything should not stop us from changing what we can.

 
G Freden
pollinator
Posts: 771
Location: West Yorkshire, UK
322
posted 1 week ago
  • Likes 9
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
We've been eating our broccoli plants, little by little.  First the broccoli.  Then the leaves, mainly cooked as namul, but also cooked like plain cabbage--good with our Sunday roast dinner today.  I know broccoli stems/stalks are good to eat too (after peeling) though I've never tried my own, only the supermarket ones.  Maybe I'll give them a shot once I've picked all the leaves.  

Trying to achieve self-reliance on a tiny suburban plot: http://gardenofgaladriel.blogspot.com

 
Mk Neal
pollinator
Posts: 1294
Location: Chicago
443
I like...
dog forest garden fish foraging urban cooking food preservation bike
posted 6 days ago
  • Likes 9
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I let my radishes self-seed in the garden based. This time of year, they come up thickly and I pull up handfuls of young radish plants before the roots start to swell and cook them whole. Great in soup or steam sautéed as a side.

Weeds are just plants with enough surplus will to live to withstand normal levels of gardening!--Alexandra Petri

 
Carla Burke
Rusticator
Posts: 9738
Location: Missouri Ozarks
5356
7
I like...
personal care gear foraging hunting rabbit chicken cooking food preservation fiber arts medical herbs homestead
posted 6 days ago
  • Likes 7
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Sweet potatoes. From tubers to leaf tops - 100% edible - and tasty. The leaves are very spinach-esque, and the stems are somewhere between asparagus and green beans in texture and flavor. The tubers are, of course,  da bomb, almost any way they're cooked.

"The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance."~Ben Franklin. "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato

 
Nancy Reading
steward and tree herder
Posts: 13159
Location: Isle of Skye, Scotland. Nearly 70 inches rain a year
7023
6
I like...
transportation dog forest garden foraging trees books food preservation woodworking wood heat rocket stoves ungarbage
posted 6 days ago
  • Likes 6
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I think all parts of all alliums are edible, most of them are pretty tasty too!

How Permies works: https://permies.com/wiki/34193/permies-works-links-threads
My projects on Skye: The tree field, Growing and landracing, perennial polycultures, "Don't dream it - be it! "

 
Robert Ray
gardener
Posts: 3458
Location: Cascades of Oregon
922
posted 6 days ago
  • Likes 7
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Radish rat-tails, the seed pods make spicy stir fry addition, pickle too.

Our inability to change everything should not stop us from changing what we can.

 
Dan Schmidt
Posts: 5
Location: Maryland, USA - Zone 7A
4
posted 6 days ago
  • Likes 8
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Essentially all parts of plants within the Mustard family (Brassicaceae or Cruciferae) are edible, including leaves, flowers, buds, seeds, pods, and roots.

When I forage garlic mustard, I make a horseradish-like sauce from the roots, pesto from the leaves and stirfry the stems.
 
I agree. Here's the link: http://stoves2.com
reply
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
Boost this thread!
Similar Threads
More...