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  • From: rick valley <bamboogrove@cmug.com>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: cattails
  • Date: Tue, 14 Nov 00 17:57:09 -0700


Catching up on back postings...
Once upon a time I harvested the green flower spikes and sold them at the
restaurant I was working at- no one could resist an ala carte veggie
listed as "hot buttered cattails". So, you can eliminate the seed and eat
it, too. The pollen is quick to gather- knock the flowers over a bag, let
the bugs climb out. It is good added to baked things or pancakes. In the
fall, I have snorkeled and gathered rhizome tips- very good steamed. And
you can gather winter rhizome and mash 'em and wash out and settle the
starch. Brother Euell Gibbons called them "the supermarket of the swamps".
I presume if you could control water level, you could set the hogs on a
stand and get quick reduction! Otherwise, find some nutria, muskrat or
moose.
-Rick




  • Re: cattails, rick valley, 11/14/2000

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