Curious... Who here hunts, fishes, gardens, preserving, gathers etc?

[bmckee56]

I hunt, do limited fishing, garden (hops & vegetables), preserve many varieties of goodies, make jerky, sausage, wine and beer. I am reloading my own shootemup stuff too. Like Yooper, I also make my own laundry detergent. Many of my friends and family think I am nuts (and cheap), but they all enjoy the end products when I offer them up.

Salute!

 

[Shooter]

LOL- it's not as easy as it sounds!
But I do have a place on a bluegill/bass lake that makes it easier- that's my first tip. Buy a house on a noted blue gill lake.

Aha, no WONDER I was having so much trouble!

On a more serious note, I'm the only male member of my immediate family who doesn't hunt or fish. I have done both before, but it was never really for me. However, I have no problem visiting my brother and demanding that he haul out some of his elk or smoked salmon and cater to our every whim!

At one point we had a couple of tomato plants on the back patio, but the old homestead at townhouse villa's isn't exactly set up for a garden.

 

[TxBrew]

We garden and raise chickens now on a friends property close by.

I fish but not enough. Rarely hunt now only due to lack of land as hunting leases are expensive.

Don't forage much for food besides pecans.

Don't net enough garden produce to can but we are slight preppers; storing enough food/water to last several weeks just encase.

I would love to move to 20 acres or so and expand our chicken raising/gardening/bearing trees. Land is just so expensive unless you get far, far away from the City and we even live in a very poor City.

 

[Homercidal]

I'd like to do more hunting, like when I was a kid, and I'd like to have a garden, but I have not been successful at our place. I'd also like to have more time for taking nature walks for gathering stuff. A friend of mine makes a killer Leek Soup with wild leeks and we've talked before about planning a whole day's meals around what we could find growing wild.

I hear cattails are great food and can be eaten many different ways. My problem is that the cattails growing nearest to me are in the roadside ditch, and I'm not interested in having them seasoned with Quaker State!

Now you've got me interested in picking cattails again! And for some strange reason I've always wanted to learn how to make baskets. Weird.

 

[billc68]

I hear cattails are great food and can be eaten many different ways.

They are edible, but far from great.

 

[cheezydemon3]

Avid gardener, mostly peppers tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and herbs.

My hops are driving me crazy. Bugs seem to love them.

I may fish more in the future, probably won't ever hunt.

Amazing salsa is:

Fresh tomatoes, peppers, onions, and garlic from the garden.(and a little salt)

Amazing fresh, but it would still be good canned.

 

[scratchypants]

I hunt - fish when I can. I have a ~1000sqft garden that is mostly for canning tomatoes and winter greens (Tuscan kale, radicchio, rapini). I have laying hens. I also have bobwhite quail for dog training. They started laying eggs, too, so I began pickling them (the eggs, not the quail). I've also got fiddleheads at the edge of my property.

 

[Homercidal]

They are edible, but far from great.

I wondered. Part of the reason I want to try them is to get a taste and see how they can be prepared. In case of the Zombie Apocalypse.

Fiddleheads are another plant I want to try. If I could only remember when they are sprouting! A friend used to make pickled fiddleheads, and he says they are pretty good. (but then everything pickled tastes nearly the same anyway).

When I was growing up I read "My Side of the Mountain" a few times and always wanted to be the kid who moved to the wilds and lived in a dugout tree with his falcon friend.

 

[HoppyDaze]

Fly fish whenever I can:

please wet your hands before you handle trout (or any fish for that matter). Dry hands will suck up all the "slimy" protective "stuff" that keeps them from getting sick....small things like that can make a huge difference in catch and release survival rates.

 

[billc68]

Amazing salsa is:

Fresh tomatoes, peppers, onions, and garlic from the garden.(and a little salt)

Amazing fresh, but it would still be good canned.

the only thing missing is cilantro and a squeeze of lime, that is your basic salsa recipe. I rarely use salt though unless I am using it for something other than nacho chips which are pretty salty already.

 

[Styles]

I dive for scallops and lobster, and also spearfish. Unfortunately not as often as I would like, and given the water temperature here it's usually only around summer.