[Homestead] polkberries

Marie McHarry mmcharry at gmail.com
Fri Oct 17 19:46:25 EDT 2008


Thanks, Bob. That was a really informative video. Here in central
Illinois we have lots of the stuff. I've always known it was poisonous
but edible if fixed right, but I'd never known just how young it had
to be for safe eating.

Marie

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:34 PM, bob ford <bobford79 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was taught that the berries are poisonous, even the older leaves from larger plants.  This is a link showing a wild-edible-plant guy safely picking and preparing pokeweed (we called it pokesalad),,,,bobford
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6d5jBJ355c



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