Paleo Foraging

10 easy wild treats.

These are my 10 honorable mentions for the best wild foods edible straight off of the plant in Texas.

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See my top 120 wild plants for food in Texas, all based on Indigenous knowledge, in my book: www.amazon.com/Native-Food-Plants-Texas-Indigenous/dp/B0FW7K4GXL

5 easiest wild treats.

These are my top 5 picks for the best wild foods edible straight off of the plant in Texas.

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See my top 120 wild plants for food in Texas, all based on Indigenous knowledge, in my book: www.amazon.com/Native-Food-Plants-Texas-Indigenous/dp/B0FW7K4GXL

2 rocks = 1 knife.

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Top foraging tool.

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I Found the Best Wild Fruit in Texas!

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Note that the Indigenous peoples mentioned are still living cultures and when I use past tense it is to describe practices in a historical context.

REFERENCES
- Bourke. 1895. Folk-foods of the Rio Grande Valley of northern Mexico.
- Carlson and Jones. 1939. Some notes on uses of plants by the Comanche Indians.
- Celiz and Hoffmann (transl.). 1935. Diary of the Alarcon expedition into Texas, 1718-1719.
- Dering. 1999. Earth-oven plant processing in Archaic Period economies: an example from a semi-arid savannah in south-central North America.
- Ebeling. 1986. Handbook of Indian Foods and Fibers of Arid America.
- Gatschet. 1891. The Karankawa Indians: the coast people of Texas.
- GBIF Secretariat.
- Hatcher. 1927. Description of the Tejas or Asinai Indians, 1671-1722, IV.
- Kavanagh (ed.). 2008. Comanche ethnography.
- Kew Botanic Gardens. Plants of the World Online.
- Kress, Solís, and Hatcher. 1931. Diary of a visit of inspection of the Texas Missions made by Fray Gaspar José de Solís in the year 1767-68.
- La Vere. 2006. Life among the Texas Indians: the WPA narratives.
- Munson. 1981. Contributions to Osage and Lakota ethnobotany.
- Ohlendorf, Bigelow, and Standifer (ed. & trans). 1980. Journey to Mexico during the years 1826 to 1834 by Jean Louis Berlandier. Vol. 2.
- Palmer. 1871. Food products of the North American Indians.
- Swanton. 2001. Source material for the social and ceremonial life of the Choctaw Indians.
- Tous and Foik (ed.). 1930. The Espinosa-Olivares-Aguirre expedition of 1709.

Handmade stone mortar.

My book on Indigenous uses of plants in Texas for food: www.amazon.com/Native-Food-Plants-Texas-Indigenous/dp/B0FW7K4GXL

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Wild Texas Teas: gumweed

This video is for educational or entertainment purposes. To be safe, DO NOT try anything I say or do. Foragers should be 100% certain of the ID of anything consumed.

My book: www.amazon.com/Native-Food-Plants-Texas-Indigenous/dp/B0FW7K4GXL

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REFERENCES
- Bean, John Lowell and Katherine Siva Saubel. 1972. Temalpakh (from the earth): Cahuilla Indian knowledge and usage of plants.
- Bernier, Gabriel Ruben. 2004. Ethnobotany of the Northern Cheyenne: medicinal plants.
- Chesnut, V. K. 1902. Plants used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California.
- GBIF Secretariat (range maps)
- Gilmore, Melvin Randolph. 1977. Uses of plants by the Indians of the Missouri River region.
- Hart, Jeffrey A. 1979. The ethnobotany of the Flathead Indians of western Montana.
- McClintock, Walter. 1909. Materia medica of the Blackfeet.

Texas persimmon.

You can get my book on Indigenous uses of plants in Texas for food here: www.amazon.com/Native-Food-Plants-Texas-Indigenous/dp/B0FW7K4GXL

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Stone tools for bowmaking.

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