I am feeling much better today. Two cups of coffee down, chickens running around the yard, freed a grackle from the garden netting, new stem on my bike (which will hopefully make my back hurt less).
Wild food lesson: Day-lilies
Hemerocallis fulva
If this isn't already planted in your yard, you can find this common plant naturalized along roadsides, in ditches, fields, etc. It's not just a great summer bloomer, but also a fantastic year round food source. The young shoots in spring, flower buds, flowers, and tubers are all edible.
Young shoots: Cook and eat like asparagus, or add uncooked to salads.
Flower buds: Cook and eat like small buds like green beans, or when larger cook in fritters.
Flowers: Cook fresh flowers in fritters; Use fresh, withered, or dried flowers to soups as a season.
Tubers: Use tubers dug up early in the year in salads or prepare like corn, older tubers can be eater year round also prepared like corn.
We have a great deal of these in the yard, and we were lucky enough to receive even more from a friend just recently. I'm going to whip up some of the flower buds today for lunch. I love free food. As with all wild plant foods, it's a good idea to make a mental note of where you see these around, so that you will know where to look/dig later in the year.
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