Spring Foraging has started - Go get some food

I have posted a few specific things that I forage such as dandelion, nuts, berries, etc. I might rehash some of that again, but not today. Instead I'd like to point you to a fellow Blogger that has a nicely done site with ample photos and basic information on the plants you can eat.

The site is specific to Texas but the plants certainly aren't limited to Texas. Take a look and support the author if you can.

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My Son's Fishing Channel on YouTube

My oldest son is definitely the best Fisherman in the family. I do pretty good myself but he is better. The link below is to his YouTube channel. He has posted quite a few videos and you can learn a lot about how to catch fish. Recently he has started bow-fishing and that is a method I have not tried yet. 

O_JO Fishing

If you like his videos please subscribe to his channel for new videos as he posts them. He's in the Army and doesn't get out as often as he would like so it is not a channel that gets a weekly update.

Enjoy!

Food Salvaging

Dumpster diving has some pretty negative connotations for obvious reasons; you're going into what is essentially a garbage bin and retrieving food. But I have found that many food stores have dedicated dumpsters that they use only for food items. My guess is that they are participating in some sort of food composting program or something. 

I am a big salvager, if you have been on my blog you know that. Recently, I have recovered a nearly new splitting wedge from a scrap metal pile. I also picked up a brand new military camouflage net system worth over $400. It was thrown in a dumpster. My son and I will use it to built a duck and goose blind for hunting this coming season. I also retrieved a gated "Y" for a garden hose and a ratchet strap. All perfectly usable stuff someone threw out.

But food? I never looked for food items before. So this past week when I was out for an evening walk I checked out three dumpsters behind a big box food store just out of curiosity. One dumpster had store trash, from their trash cans. One dumpster had thrown out produce; just fruits and vegetables. And the third dumpster had boxed and canned items from the shelf. It was about one third full. I grabbed a few items just to see the sell by dates, to see how old the stuff was. Surprisingly, none of the items were actually expired. I wasn't about to crawl in but I did grab some items that I typically eat and took them home. See below:

About $25-30 of high nutrition food