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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the straw badge in Foraging.



(source: Wikipedia)

To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
      o Save seeds from 6 species of wild plants
      o At least one half teaspoon of each

Some possible species might include:
      - Mullein
      - Sweet clover
      - Nettle
      - Apple
      - Apricot
      - Cherry
      - Berries
      - Dandelion
      - Nuts (acorn, hazelnut, walnut, chestnut, etc)
      - Dock/burdock
      - Miners lettuce
      - Sorrels

To document your completion of the BB, provide the following:
 - clear image of the wild species
 - provide the name of the wild species being harvested
 - at least 1/2 teaspoon of seeds harvested from each wild species
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Tis the season for seed collecting!  I harvested the following:
Vetch
Lupine
Sheep Sorrel
Aster
Indian Paint Brush (correction, it's hawk weed)
Red Oak
Lupine.jpg
Lupine
Lupine
Vetch-climing-up-in-this-hazelnut-(just-right-of-center).jpg
Vetch climing up in this hazelnut (just right of center)
Vetch climing up in this hazelnut (just right of center)
Field-of-sheep-sorrel-seeds.jpg
Field of sheep sorrel seeds
Field of sheep sorrel seeds
Indian-paint-brush-(seed-head-in-my-hand-flower-in-the-background).jpg
Indian paint brush (seed head in my hand, flower in the background)
Indian paint brush (seed head in my hand, flower in the background)
Patch-of-aster.jpg
Patch of aster
Patch of aster
Red-oak.jpg
Red oak
Red oak
6-types-of-seeds.jpg
6 types of seeds
6 types of seeds
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So would this also count double for the seed saving bb in gardening?
 
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Nope, this one is for wild plants, not gardened/cultivated ones.
 
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I have been collecting seed from wildflowers and meadow species this year. I also save seed from trees and shrubs which I am planting to stock future hedgerows.

For this BB I have included the following species:

Burnet rose (Rosa pimpinellifolia), a low-growing rose with edible rosehips and a valuable foodstuff for birds
Dog rose (Rosa canina), our wild rose with edible blossoms and hips
Hazel (Corylus avellana), useful for hedging, coppicewood and nutella!
Welsh poppies (Papaver cambricum), beautiful, pollinator-friendly native wildflowers
Hawksbeard (Crepis), a pollinator-friendly plant
Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca), a nitrogen-fixing, rambling meadow flower
Wild cherry (Prunus avium), edible, suitable as a hedge plant and good for birds

I've submitted 7 species as not all of them are shown with a teaspoon. I hope it's obvious that the center of my palm is larger than a teaspoon!
burnet-rose-plant.jpg
Burnet rose
Burnet rose
burnet-rose-seeds.jpg
[Thumbnail for burnet-rose-seeds.jpg]
dog-rose-plant.jpg
Dog rose
Dog rose
dog-rose-seeds.jpg
[Thumbnail for dog-rose-seeds.jpg]
hazel-plant.jpg
Hazel
Hazel
hazelnuts.jpg
[Thumbnail for hazelnuts.jpg]
welsh-poppy-plant.jpg
Welsh poppy (flower in bg)
Welsh poppy (flower in bg)
welsh-poppy-seed.jpg
[Thumbnail for welsh-poppy-seed.jpg]
hawks-plant.jpg
Hawksbeard
Hawksbeard
hawks-seed.jpg
[Thumbnail for hawks-seed.jpg]
tufted-vetch-plant.jpg
Tufted vetch
Tufted vetch
tufted-vetch-seed.jpg
[Thumbnail for tufted-vetch-seed.jpg]
cherry-plant.jpg
Wild cherry
Wild cherry
cherry-fruit.jpg
[Thumbnail for cherry-fruit.jpg]
cherries-seed.jpg
[Thumbnail for cherries-seed.jpg]
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Note: Good luck with your hedgerows! They'll be beautiful.

 
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Seeds saved from six wild plants on my property.

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Milkweed
Milkweed
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Panicled Aster
Panicled Aster
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Lilac
Lilac
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Rugosa rose
Rugosa rose
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Meadow rue
Meadow rue
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Sunflower
Sunflower
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The whole bag of tiny sunflower seeds!
The whole bag of tiny sunflower seeds!
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Someone flagged this submission as an edge case BB.
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Note: Could you show that there is actually a half teaspoon of the sunflower?  Pic looks like it's just 3 seeds

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Christopher Weeks
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This one is repeatable, so six more plants:
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Goldenrod
Goldenrod
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Tansy
Tansy
E230B620-DEA8-4BAA-AB1C-2DBDE757F4B1.jpeg
Mullein
Mullein
3943ED1E-C30F-47B7-849C-A467655D551F.jpeg
Nettle
Nettle
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Blackberry
Blackberry
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Larch / Tamrack
Larch / Tamrack
IMG_6374.JPG
Whole Mullein bag!
Whole Mullein bag!
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Note: Could you show that there is actually a half teaspoon of the mullein?  Can't really see them in the bag

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Very sorry about the above two submissions! I got too clever by using an automatic collaging tool to combine the pics of the plants with the pics of the seeds. So I've included the whole picture of the bag of seeds that was used for those. I can take other pics with an actual half-teaspoon you need that for any of the varieties. (I didn't measure that closely, I just harvested what I could find that was over that volume.)
 
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