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Summary
Paul embarks on a walk around basecamp with Samantha
About a year ago they had help week; Paul had the idea of creating a trail around basecamp so he can walk (he's got a target number of steps per day) and then they could plant stuff by the trail. He's been working on this intermittently, and Samantha has been helping.
Paul mentions that yesterday Samantha went out in the garden to get stuff for a salad. She's brought some lamb with her. Paul has her list what plants she found. Some of the plants were planted purposefully, others just turned up. Paul found a couple of morels which he cooked, and was surprised to find out that Samantha hadn't ever had them. Paul says morels are the best mushroom.
They discuss Camas which native Americans used to eat, until someone brought potatoes, which are much easier to process. Paul also discusses the soup he made, which had various veg from the garden. Paul talks about his apricot tree, which had a ton of blooms on it and he has high hopes for apricots this year. He's also kept a lot of seeds from a good plum tree to plant. Many of the fruit trees are in bloom, but there are some lacking: they have no peach trees for example.
Paul mentions gardening in the Seattle/Portland area: there's someone in bootcamp who was a big player in the beacon food forest. Seems there they have "hügelkulturs" which are about a foot and a half tall and she is amazed by Paul's huge hügelkulturs. In general though Paul doesn't want anything to do with Seattle and Portland - it's full of lichen and slugs and other nasty stuff.
Relevant Threads
Wild Harvesting forum
some pics from paul
Camas / Quamash growing, cooking and harvesting
Podcast 291 - Beacon Food Forest
Beacon Food Forest website
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