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I'm in Michigan. What edible plants can be grown by planting seeds along public trails and walkways to "pre install" for emergencies for everyone who might notice them? In my area cantaloupe can grow randomly once the seeds are dropped. I'm not sure about durability year to year though. What'll flourish all in its own? For very little money I could contribute to the survival of entire neighborhoods. |
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Originally Posted By Urimaginaryfrnd: Deer food plot seeds that include turnips, beets, radishes grow relatively un-noticed, except by the critters. Kale does well in the North. As deer are food too that sounds even better! 😎 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke There might be a bunch of these around already. Native to the Northeast US. A bit aggressive but that's something you are wanting. I haven't had or planted these, but heard about them in various places. |
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Wild edibles is what your talking about essentially. Consider those a gift when you identify them correctly, in the right season, know how to prepare them, and know their poisonous look-a-likes. Unless agriculture is employed, generally not worth the calories to search for and harvest except for a few exceptions like acorns and cattails. All amino acids can be found in the animal kingdom and the calorie gain is usually worth the sweat, especially with snares and deadfalls; plants are what the real food eats. When it comes to plants, their is likely more value in knowing medicinal properties, their qualities for fire & tools, and what the mammals in the area like to eat -- saying all this because it's in the survival discussion section -- so maybe a strategy of planting or moving species that - as an example deer like to eat, to your property or area. Although just mowing or bush-hogging a wild patch will do more for deer. OP is in Michigan, probably some good crossover in this book still being the east or look for something similar. |
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I would look for native perennial plants that have edible fruit or leaves if you're planting them in public/random areas where you won't be able to monitor or care for them regularly. The natives are more likely to thrive. Find the planting sites first, then determine what would best grow in each area based on the sunlight and soil type. Examples for Michigan: https://www.prairiemoon.com/prunus-americana-american-plum https://www.prairiemoon.com/amelanchier-arborea-downy-serviceberry https://www.prairiemoon.com/ceanothus-americanus-new-jersey-tea https://www.prairiemoon.com/allium-tricoccum-wild-leek (aka ramps) You could also plant these at home if you wanted non-obvious edible plants. |
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Originally Posted By cecILL: Wild strawberries grow like weeds in spots of my yard. You can eat them, not great. Asparagus I just purchased Asparagus seed for this purpose and I hate !@#$ing Asparagus. But I can let it fester and grow. I also hate strawberries.  I do have mockberries that look like strawberries. They have very little nutritional value and no taste.
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Goji / Wolf Berry Bushes. Super hardy and produce a ton of little berries that are rich in antioxidants, vitamins (A, C), and minerals, potentially boosting immunity and eye health with a unique sweet-tart taste. I dug my bush up with a tractor and forgot about it for 2 days in July. I replanted it with only about 5% of leaves remaining. It bounced back in about 3 weeks despite root damage and being left out with roots exposed to summer July temps. |
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Originally Posted By cecILL: Wild strawberries grow like weeds in spots of my yard. You can eat them, not great. Asparagus I have wild blueberries/huckleberries/billberries in my property, it gets well below zero in the winter and doesn’t rain a lot in the summer. I went many years not paying attention to them until my mom pointed the plants out when the berries weren’t in season-I just assumed it was normal ground cover foliage as they are all over the high ground on my property. I could never seem to find any berries until last year when we got to them before the critters did: Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Asparagus and rhubarb would be good. Fruit trees might work. There are a whole mess of perennial ancient vegetables that we just don't grow anymore. Lovage, for example.  The Forever Vegetable. One planting, 20 years of food. Why Is This Not in Your Garden? |
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I always thought potatoes would be a good set it and forget it type guerrilla garden staple. Here in my zone 6 corner what Ive seen the most of is Rhubarb, horseradish, leeks/green onions/ Egyptian walking onions Then the fruits of blackberries, raspberries, apples, plums Get some good nut trees going and you’ve got the makings of something to supplement a lot of meals for half the year. Still gotta get that protein coming in. |
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Jerusalem artichoke. No one else will know wtf it is. But once established, its on its own. Its pretty. And it produces an ABUNDANCE of tubers.... It will be food hidden in plain sight. I know others have said "apples". No flames intended. However, having extensive experience in commercial apple operations, I say "nope, not apple". Or plums, Or similar. Too many pests. Too many diseases. They need pruning. And the fruit is all garbage trashy wormy crap that's really not all that edible unless there's a ton of maintenance and upkeep. just no... Check you ag zone. What was naturally occurring???? Think in terms of "lived here successfully all by itself". I can't do them here, but Pawpaw comes to mind. I love Burr oak, and have planted some, but that's for grandkids. I won't live long enough to see those mature. |
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It's a great concept and idea but most just don't do well untended at all. There are patches of JA and asparagus that will tend themselves in ideal soils/locations with correct rainfall, etc. A few other substantial plants are OK. Taking note of any nut tree stands is valuable. But, if you're thinking of relying on anything like this for any substantial amount of food, I'd recommend against that notion. I grew up with wild edibles and wild medicinals as a hobby. Under the best circumstance, it's damn tough to get a decent meal with any regularity. |
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Originally Posted By Ridgerunner9876: It's a great concept and idea but most just don't do well untended at all. There are patches of JA and asparagus that will tend themselves in ideal soils/locations with correct rainfall, etc. A few other substantial plants are OK. Taking note of any nut tree stands is valuable. But, if you're thinking of relying on anything like this for any substantial amount of food, I'd recommend against that notion. I grew up with wild edibles and wild medicinals as a hobby. Under the best circumstance, it's damn tough to get a decent meal with any regularity. I've read that Hazelnut and Chestnut are a fantastic prep alongside a normal garden. Lots of Fat and Carbs. Mix in some rabbits and chickens for protein and you're made. |
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Originally Posted By PointBlank82: I've read that Hazelnut and Chestnut are a fantastic prep alongside a normal garden. Lots of Fat and Carbs. Mix in some rabbits and chickens for protein and you're made. Originally Posted By PointBlank82: Originally Posted By Ridgerunner9876: It's a great concept and idea but most just don't do well untended at all. There are patches of JA and asparagus that will tend themselves in ideal soils/locations with correct rainfall, etc. A few other substantial plants are OK. Taking note of any nut tree stands is valuable. But, if you're thinking of relying on anything like this for any substantial amount of food, I'd recommend against that notion. I grew up with wild edibles and wild medicinals as a hobby. Under the best circumstance, it's damn tough to get a decent meal with any regularity. I've read that Hazelnut and Chestnut are a fantastic prep alongside a normal garden. Lots of Fat and Carbs. Mix in some rabbits and chickens for protein and you're made. Absolutely. The more self sustaining, minimal work food plants I can have, the better. I took the OP to mean, just random places, off of his own property and completely untended. Mother Nature already puts plants where she wants them and if she doesn't already want them there, trying to put some there without additional tending, is a rough row to hoe...so to speak . There are a few, obviously, that lend themselves to this task, by their nature, so long as you pick a spot that they would already want to be. Like propagating morels in a damp shady punky spot. I have Gibbons' book Stalking the Wild Asparagus. That was my first wild edible plant book, to be followed by many more. I can tell you, some wilds are better than others, for sure. Jerusalem Artichoke is nicknamed Fartichoke for a reason. 
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Originally Posted By Ridgerunner9876: Absolutely. The more self sustaining, minimal work food plants I can have, the better. I took the OP to mean, just random places, off of his own property and completely untended. Mother Nature already puts plants where she wants them and if she doesn't already want them there, trying to put some there without additional tending, is a rough row to hoe...so to speak . There are a few, obviously, that lend themselves to this task, by their nature, so long as you pick a spot that they would already want to be. Like propagating morels in a damp shady punky spot. I have Gibbons' book Stalking the Wild Asparagus. That was my first wild edible plant book, to be followed by many more. I can tell you, some wilds are better than others, for sure. Jerusalem Artichoke is nicknamed Fartichoke for a reason. Originally Posted By Ridgerunner9876: Originally Posted By PointBlank82: Originally Posted By Ridgerunner9876: It's a great concept and idea but most just don't do well untended at all. There are patches of JA and asparagus that will tend themselves in ideal soils/locations with correct rainfall, etc. A few other substantial plants are OK. Taking note of any nut tree stands is valuable. But, if you're thinking of relying on anything like this for any substantial amount of food, I'd recommend against that notion. I grew up with wild edibles and wild medicinals as a hobby. Under the best circumstance, it's damn tough to get a decent meal with any regularity. I've read that Hazelnut and Chestnut are a fantastic prep alongside a normal garden. Lots of Fat and Carbs. Mix in some rabbits and chickens for protein and you're made. Absolutely. The more self sustaining, minimal work food plants I can have, the better. I took the OP to mean, just random places, off of his own property and completely untended. Mother Nature already puts plants where she wants them and if she doesn't already want them there, trying to put some there without additional tending, is a rough row to hoe...so to speak . There are a few, obviously, that lend themselves to this task, by their nature, so long as you pick a spot that they would already want to be. Like propagating morels in a damp shady punky spot. I have Gibbons' book Stalking the Wild Asparagus. That was my first wild edible plant book, to be followed by many more. I can tell you, some wilds are better than others, for sure. Jerusalem Artichoke is nicknamed Fartichoke for a reason. The Jerusalem Artichoke cant be digested by the human body well. Interesting fact, you can ferment the things into alcohol with certain enzymes. |
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Interesting aside given that a lot of folks think their "#10 can of survival seeds" will get them a nice garden 10 years later- So going through some more deep storage, some at an alternate location, found an ammo with some older heirloom seeds in there. These are from the late 90's. It was mostly corn (about the only veg I ate back then) and I know from experience that has a terrible life span for storage, but there were some peppers of two different varieties. I chitted the seeds for 2 days, changing and draining the water regularly. I used approximately 100 seeds from one packet and approx 20 from another (smaller packet). Took them out to the greenhouse, not wanting to waste a bunch of flats on them but wanting to try them. I put all of them in a large pot. It's been watered daily, temps have been enough in the greenhouse to have them sprout as well. Not 2 feet from where they sit new starts of pepper plants from fresh seeds are growing great. Not a damn one of the old seeds came up. This isn't a huge surprise, just some info I wanted to pass along, as many think seeds are "buy and forget" just not in the same manner these were forgotten LOL. Some pepper seeds we saved from 2023 have always showed very low germination levels. We all really need to be growing every year, if for nothing else but to preserve seed stock. |
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Originally Posted By Lowdown3: Interesting aside given that a lot of folks think their "#10 can of survival seeds" will get them a nice garden 10 years later- So going through some more deep storage, some at an alternate location, found an ammo with some older heirloom seeds in there. These are from the late 90's. It was mostly corn (about the only veg I ate back then) and I know from experience that has a terrible life span for storage, but there were some peppers of two different varieties. I chitted the seeds for 2 days, changing and draining the water regularly. I used approximately 100 seeds from one packet and approx 20 from another (smaller packet). Took them out to the greenhouse, not wanting to waste a bunch of flats on them but wanting to try them. I put all of them in a large pot. It's been watered daily, temps have been enough in the greenhouse to have them sprout as well. Not 2 feet from where they sit new starts of pepper plants from fresh seeds are growing great. Not a damn one of the old seeds came up. This isn't a huge surprise, just some info I wanted to pass along, as many think seeds are "buy and forget" just not in the same manner these were forgotten LOL. Some pepper seeds we saved from 2023 have always showed very low germination levels. We all really need to be growing every year, if for nothing else but to preserve seed stock. Most of my info and experience says you get 2 years for most. Three at the max. I don't think those "survival seeds" have any magic. Freeze dried? Vacuum packed? To my knowledge, there is nothing you can do to extend the dormant life of a seed. Hell...even fresh seeds from last year sometimes see only a 70 or 80% germination, depending on the plant. I'd say, if planting food is anywhere on your radar for "bad times" you should be growing and learning, now. Even if it is a 4x8 plot. Even if it's a few 5 gal buckets. You'll be getting to know what you don't know now. There's about 1000 things that can go wrong and 100 different ways to do anything. Little shit like which plants are friends, which are enemies, which supplement the soil, which rape it, successive plantings, rotation, progressive planting, seed saving, biennials and how to winter them over for seeds, etc, etc. All can be learned in a small plot without a ton of work or time. |
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Originally Posted By Ridgerunner9876: Most of my info and experience says you get 2 years for most. Three at the max. I don't think those "survival seeds" have any magic. Freeze dried? Vacuum packed? To my knowledge, there is nothing you can do to extend the dormant life of a seed. Hell...even fresh seeds from last year sometimes see only a 70 or 80% germination, depending on the plant. I'd say, if planting food is anywhere on your radar for "bad times" you should be growing and learning, now. Even if it is a 4x8 plot. Even if it's a few 5 gal buckets. You'll be getting to know what you don't know now. There's about 1000 things that can go wrong and 100 different ways to do anything. Little shit like which plants are friends, which are enemies, which supplement the soil, which rape it, successive plantings, rotation, progressive planting, seed saving, biennials and how to winter them over for seeds, etc, etc. All can be learned in a small plot without a ton of work or time. Yep. |
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Originally Posted By RR_Broccoli: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke There might be a bunch of these around already. Native to the Northeast US. A bit aggressive but that's something you are wanting. I haven't had or planted these, but heard about them in various places. I planted a mess of those a couple years ago and just left them. They are supposed to come back every year and spread like wildfire -- mine didn't return the next growing season. :( |
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Originally Posted By ISED8U: I planted a mess of those a couple years ago and just left them. They are supposed to come back every year and spread like wildfire -- mine didn't return the next growing season. :( Originally Posted By ISED8U: Originally Posted By RR_Broccoli: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke There might be a bunch of these around already. Native to the Northeast US. A bit aggressive but that's something you are wanting. I haven't had or planted these, but heard about them in various places. I planted a mess of those a couple years ago and just left them. They are supposed to come back every year and spread like wildfire -- mine didn't return the next growing season. :( As I mentioned, plants (tend to) have a very specific set of needs. Folks like to ponder how "God made the Earth the perfect distance from a star which has the perfect amount of radiated energy, and has the perfect amount of water and land for us to live". Or....Life popped up where conditions favored it, and it didn't pop up where conditions were not correct. Your morel mushroom will grow just dandy in a shady, damp spot where asparagus would stand no chance. Plant those morels in a sunny sandy area and they die in short order but the asparagus would thrive. You have to plant stuff where it already wants to be to stand any chance of success. |
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Originally Posted By Ridgerunner9876: As I mentioned, plants (tend to) have a very specific set of needs. Folks like to ponder how "God made the Earth the perfect distance from a star which has the perfect amount of radiated energy, and has the perfect amount of water and land for us to live". Or....Life popped up where conditions favored it, and it didn't pop up where conditions were not correct. Your morel mushroom will grow just dandy in a shady, damp spot where asparagus would stand no chance. Plant those morels in a sunny sandy area and they die in short order but the asparagus would thrive. You have to plant stuff where it already wants to be to stand any chance of success. Originally Posted By Ridgerunner9876: Originally Posted By ISED8U: Originally Posted By RR_Broccoli: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke There might be a bunch of these around already. Native to the Northeast US. A bit aggressive but that's something you are wanting. I haven't had or planted these, but heard about them in various places. I planted a mess of those a couple years ago and just left them. They are supposed to come back every year and spread like wildfire -- mine didn't return the next growing season. :( As I mentioned, plants (tend to) have a very specific set of needs. Folks like to ponder how "God made the Earth the perfect distance from a star which has the perfect amount of radiated energy, and has the perfect amount of water and land for us to live". Or....Life popped up where conditions favored it, and it didn't pop up where conditions were not correct. Your morel mushroom will grow just dandy in a shady, damp spot where asparagus would stand no chance. Plant those morels in a sunny sandy area and they die in short order but the asparagus would thrive. You have to plant stuff where it already wants to be to stand any chance of success. And then you have some plants like Raspberries that can grow in both spots. I think the trick is to create a food forest of edibles that will self-propagate and persist invasively. Onions come to mind. Those flowers have like 100 seeds each and you only need to let a few go to flower to generate enough seeds to cover hundreds of square feet. Ground Cherries also create a million little seeds for each fruit and will blow around on the ground in their husk once it falls. Ditto for cherry tomatoes which can grow in a crack in the concrete from birdshit. |
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My wife grew up as a hunter-gatherer on the edges of the Thailand jungle. When I went to visit her home town in the spring she spent most of the time pointing out the edible trees that lines the trails and roads. Like the OP's suggestion she suggested the village plants fruit bearing trees on purpose and the villages don't cut them down to burn for fuel because they're fruit bearing. After several hundred years of doing this every where you look is an edible tree, unfortunately they've largely cut down and burned the rest. Locally I live in the UP of Michigan. One of my best friends here is a forester and when he walks my property he's always pointing out beneficial plants that are either medicinal or edible to me. We bought an old farm from the 1800s with the modern house on one hill and the remains from the old farm house on another. Nothing much survived the hundred years of use but their old apple orchard. Their lilac bushes, several types of flows, and rhubarbs replanted themselves for years of abandonment. In the spring we note where the apple trees are blooming. They attract deer come fall very reliably. Blueberries grow in patches around the old house location too. Wild leeks are very common here too and grow in large swaths under the pine canopy. There are mushrooms we've planted and get harvests in the spring and fall. We buy the fungus starter kits and impregnate our own logs and strands of trees with mushrooms. We have plenty of deer, rabbit, and eastern red squirrels and I have traps for the little guns and a gun for the big ones. Plenty of birds here with duck, pheasant, and grouse on the property along with the others. I live within walking distance of a +100 acre lake and it and its river are a good source of fish with tournaments producing lots of +24 inch long fish annually. The other part of the equation is that the population density is about 4 people per square mile with most of those people inside one of the dozen or so small towns/clusters. |
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Originally Posted By JellyBelly: I'm in Michigan. What edible plants can be grown by planting seeds along public trails and walkways to "pre install" for emergencies for everyone who might notice them? In my area cantaloupe can grow randomly once the seeds are dropped. I'm not sure about durability year to year though. What'll flourish all in its own? For very little money I could contribute to the survival of entire neighborhoods. I think that's called guerilla gardening. Lot of my cuttings failed this year because I took them too late, but I planned on doing what you describe with Elderberries. |
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I’m not “guerilla gardening” so to speak, but on my mountainside property I have planted a 25 tree fruit orchard with 5-10 trees to go, a couple walnut trees, a few maple trees and a ~3000 sq ft berry garden. The fruit trees include apple, pear, plum, peach, sweet cherry, pie cherry. I’ll either be adding a few more apples or try out apricots along with filling out my cherry space with a few more of those trees. The berry garden just got started up this spring but I have 16 red raspberries on the way to 33, a black raspberry (experimental so just 1 for now), a strawberry patch, 4 blueberries in planters so far, 12 total plants of 4 grape varieties, 3 elderberry, 3 black currant, 2 jostaberries, 3 red gojiberries and 2 rhubarb. This area has a huge wild rose patch so I’ll be irrigating it to maximize rose hip production. I’m looking to add some thornless blackberries, cranberry, honeyberry, black gojiberry, more blueberries and whatever else is useful next spring to that garden. Since the berry garden is adjacent to my walnuts, I’m going to expand it a bit and add 6-10 hybrid and American hazelnuts and perhaps a cold hardy pecan. Also while not a true nut, I’ve started an American Groundnut patch down there. Elsewhere on the property I’m looking to build a few garden boxes adjacent to a 4000sq ft in ground garden for hardy perennials like jerusalem artichoke, asparagus, walking onions, green onions, chives, good king henry and just about any other perennial I can find to grow on the cusp of zone 4b-5a. |
| I didn't plant them on purpose, but last years crop of sweet potatoes (Porto Rico's to be exact) were planted in 7 gallon cloth containers (about 14 of them). This year I noticed that they were coming up out of the ground with nothing having been planted at the time. Dug a few up and re-planted them in pots to see if I can get a harvest out of them again this year. We will see in Oct or Nov. Apparently, if the vines hit the ground for any length of time, they can replicate themselves. |
| squashes and tomatoes will grow pretty much anywhere. I always have tomatoes sprouting the next season if they were previously grown there. I want to start planting berries around perimeter of my property since my land seems to be good for them. |
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Originally Posted By 8upwitHDs: I didn't plant them on purpose, but last years crop of sweet potatoes (Porto Rico's to be exact) were planted in 7 gallon cloth containers (about 14 of them). This year I noticed that they were coming up out of the ground with nothing having been planted at the time. Dug a few up and re-planted them in pots to see if I can get a harvest out of them again this year. We will see in Oct or Nov. Apparently, if the vines hit the ground for any length of time, they can replicate themselves. Yes, sweet potatoes are easy to grow from "slips" and many people don't recognize the plants. |
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Originally Posted By Bubbles: Yes, sweet potatoes are easy to grow from "slips" and many people don't recognize the plants. Originally Posted By Bubbles: Originally Posted By 8upwitHDs: I didn't plant them on purpose, but last years crop of sweet potatoes (Porto Rico's to be exact) were planted in 7 gallon cloth containers (about 14 of them). This year I noticed that they were coming up out of the ground with nothing having been planted at the time. Dug a few up and re-planted them in pots to see if I can get a harvest out of them again this year. We will see in Oct or Nov. Apparently, if the vines hit the ground for any length of time, they can replicate themselves. Yes, sweet potatoes are easy to grow from "slips" and many people don't recognize the plants. I tried to grow them for 2 or 3 years and never had good results. Then add in they say to cure them at like 80 degrees w/ 80% humidity for a week or whatever, which is nearly impossible in MI in the fall. |