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Eat The Weeds and other things, too
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Eat The Weeds and other things, too is a personal blog at eattheweeds.com about science and culture. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on foraging and edible wild plants: cold-hardy citrus and paw paw, mangroves, Japanese knotweed, kudzu and dandelion root recipes. Commenters only cite or link them, without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Foraging, Permaculture, and other things, too
What Hacker News says?
The most hardy citrus is the ornamental Flying Dragon Citrus, which produces fruit, but the fruit is poor tasting. But can be grown in zone 6 Niagara Falls http://www.eattheweeds.com/hardy-orange/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold-hardy_citrus The most tropical fruit that can be grown in cold climates in North America is the Paw Paw. (Survives -30 degrees) "It belongs to the genus Asimina in the same plant family (…
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on “Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures”https://www.eattheweeds.com/mangroves-marvelous-muck-masters... They have a propagule, not exactly a fruit. In theory you could engineer it to beef up the amount of starch in this seed, but you still have to reduce the amount of tannins so it's not bitter. Of course the bitterness keeps it from being eaten by everything in sight, so not sure how well it do in this modified form.
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on “The Benefits of Mangroves (2023)”If it pops up again, eat it. https://www.eattheweeds.com/japanese-knotweed-dreadable-edib...
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on “The dual nature of Japanese Knotweed”As a child, I always heard that it was everywhere because the roots grow six feet deep and it can grow back from the roots. A quick google trying to confirm that suggests it grows twelve feet deep and is edible, among other things. It was everywhere where I grew up, especially covering the ditches, etc alongside highways. http://www.eattheweeds.com/kudzu-pueraria-montana-var-lobata... https://science.howstuffworks.c…
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on “The Secret Life of Kudzu”Though I agree that dandelions are awesome, your description of them also describes sow thistles perfectly. Not only are sow thistles often mistaken for dandelions (at least in their earlier growth stage), but they are woefully underrated as edible wild plants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonchus In fact, I appreciate sow thistle even more than dandelion. People assume they must be bitter or even poisonous because…
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on “Dandelion Root Recipes”