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where can i find out about edible plants in South Australia?
I want to learn all about plants that grow in my local area whith the eventual goal of living 100% from food I collect or hunt myself.
I have a few books and have a few printouts from the internet. Do you think that information is enough to indentify plants that are safe to eat?
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It's a start, but hold your horses a bit before you start eating bush tucker at random. A wrong identification might well be a disaster. We've lost this natural 'bushcraft' long ago in todays world. A lot of stuff out there is simply 'classification unknown'...might be good eating...might be lethal. Anyone who knew for sure being long gone and we just haven't bothered to find out again. It's a fascinating idea and sort of 'grounds' us in the old ways. There's some you'll be 100% certain of, and you're fine there. But no silly risks. Any doubt, chuck it away. Best way to learn is find one of the (admittedly, few) people who really know their stuff and go out with them a good few times. Then you'll see, feel and maybe smell the item in question, and see where and at what time it grows, and then you'll just 'know it' when you're on your own. Hard to get that from a book. Strange, five minutes with the manual and we can learn how to use the newest high-tech gadget. But learning the skills we all once had and have lost is a slow, patient process. Maybe that's why it appeals to some of us??
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