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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

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


--- On Fri, 10/17/08, VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] polkberries
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, October 17, 2008, 5:23 PM
> --- On Fri, 10/17/08, keith bellinger
> <bartermn AT epix.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> > I found out what my mystery berries are from a brother
> > visiting from 
> > Tennessee, polkberries. I had searched online and
> through
> > my books for 
> > hours without finding it. He told a story about how an
> > elderly lady he 
> > knows uses the berries to help her arthritis. Five
> berries
> > a day, 
> > freezing them for later. Further research warned they
> are
> > poisonous. 
> > Anyone eat the greens? 
> 
> We always thought they were poisonous until my uncle
> married a widow from Arkansas.  When they started eating it
> we did too.  Though I understand that there is potential for
> poison.  We may have not had a problem because we cooked all
> vegetables "to death".  Great mixed with wild
> mustard, the poke has a smooth texture and mixes well with
> the courser texture of mustard.
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