Look what I found along the edge of the woods! Lots of soft plum-like fruits dangling from low bushes and strewn over the grass--tallow plums (Ximenia americana). They have big seeds, and slightly astringent flesh, and are also known as hog plums or yellow plums.
I had to consult my field guides to identify them.
See the very best wild foods guru Green Deane's site "Eat the Weeds" and look up tallow plums.
I cooked them in water, strained them through a sieve, and added honey from my beehives. Makes a delicious juice. High in the nutritive fatty acids: linoleic, linolenic and arachidonic.
There is so much wild food in Florida we could live, if we had to, without Publix.
I had to consult my field guides to identify them.
See the very best wild foods guru Green Deane's site "Eat the Weeds" and look up tallow plums.
I cooked them in water, strained them through a sieve, and added honey from my beehives. Makes a delicious juice. High in the nutritive fatty acids: linoleic, linolenic and arachidonic.
There is so much wild food in Florida we could live, if we had to, without Publix.
Ona: I'm glad that your beehives are producing honey. I helped you install several of them. We didn't know what we were doing. Did your first ones work out?
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