Actual Farmer Thread - Also Gathering and similar stuff, just nothing related to hunting

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Bluebird already mentioned it but collecting "chicken of woods" in the summer is the only gathering of food I've ever done.

Cutting it into bite sized pieces & proceeding to sauté them with wine is superb.

Even though it's most commonly referred to as chicken of the woods, it's actually just a laetiporus fungus, with it's proper name being sulphur shelf.
 
I never gather stuff but I am an avid grower of things to eat

Every year I grow tomatoes, I've gotten really good at it too, last tomato I grew gave me 40 fruit off one plant
This year I grew potatoes for the first time too. I grew them in like plastic canvas bags for easy harvesting, they turned out pretty well. I harvested them when they were young and I roasted up the little potatoes and they were very tasty.
I've grown strawberries as well, I had good luck with them making nice juicy fruits but later in the seasons wasps came and started eating the berries so I left them alone so they could finish what they started. If I were to grow them again I would wrap the hanging baskets in some kind of fine mesh to prevent it from happening again.
I also had a drawf blueberry bush, it grew wild blueberries which weren't liked as much as the domestic kind by my family so I gave the bush away. Maybe I'll get a full size bush one year but I'd need to carefully prepare an area for it.
Other than that I've grown the typical stuff; beans and peas. Those are so easy to grow it's barely worth mentioning that you grew them because they grow like weeds essentially
 
LofaSofa said:
Bluebird already mentioned it but collecting "chicken of woods" in the summer is the only gathering of food I've ever done.

Cutting it into bite sized pieces & proceeding to sauté them with wine is superb.

Even though it's most commonly referred to as chicken of the woods, it's actually just a laetiporus fungus, with it's proper name being sulphur shelf.
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Guess what I got for Christmas
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I know all the mulberry trees in my area so I go and harvest from the trees. Nobody else knows about them and I would prefer to keep it that way.

I also have a lot of leeks on my grandpa's old property that I harvest. You can make some pretty good pesto using the leek leaves and potato leek soup is delish.
 
So, I grow: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, Thyme, Lemon Thyme, Oregano, Lavender, Curry Plant, Basil, Bay, Apple Mint, Garden Mint, Leeks, Cabbages (Savoy and Red) Onions (of many varieties) Pumpkins, Marrows, Potatoes, Sprouts, Cauliflower, Carrots, Peas, Beans, Raspberries and Blackcurrants. I've probably missed stuff off that list. My ducks and chickens provide me with eggs and growing wild around my land I have: Blackberries, Elderberries, Redcurrants, Dandelions, Rosehips (For wine), Sloes, Damsons, Plums and Crabapples. I eat reasonably well off the land.
 
I do my best to grow my own food but they usually die or end up deformed so I just take them inside, chop em up, and throw them to the animals. Even my aloe plant just died. How the hell do you even kill succulents? They're supposed to be immortal. I don't even know what I'm doing wrong.

I do like eating wild berries when I find them because I don't have to grow them myself.
 
When I was a tender young Bepis I'd find morels in the woods and pick so many that my family and I were sick off of them by the time we finished the whole two gallon bucket. Couldn't let that sweet edible find go to waste, you know?

Since then I've stuck to growing tomatoes and herbs as the mushrooms around here are scarce and toxic due to the dry environment killing out the good ones. Tbh it's also hella hostile to my tomatoes and herbs too, only okra does well. ;;
Because of that, the one rare purple Cherokee that reaches full maturation and becoming larger than your fist is the best thing. Still warm from the summer heat and the salt practically dissolving the minute it hits the slice- nothing better, mang.
 
What are you growing this year guys? Atm I'm gonna be getting radishes, carrots and some leaf lettuce varieties going up here in Canada
 
Bugaboo said:
What are you growing this year guys? Atm I'm gonna be getting radishes, carrots and some leaf lettuce varieties going up here in Canada
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My rhubarb roots are finally big enough to start chucking out some thick stems so I'm forcing that atm. Got potatoes in, red cabbage, three types of onion. My plum and apple trees should produce a decent crop this year and my Kiwi ought to fruit for the first time although they won't be brilliant fruit for a few years.
 
@Bugaboo
Garden 2018 is a beast.
Roma, Rutgers, Lemon boy, and Cherokee purple tomatoes.
Chocolate mint, spearmint, thyme, rosemary, and lavender.
Assorted color bellpeppers, tomatillos, and a big hanging basket of everbearing strawberries. A tea rose for rose jelly and clove currants.

The wife is growing ghost, hot lemon, pepperoncini, Thai, habanero, and jalapeno peppers. Also a bush watermelon.
 
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I have a new garden with actual mud in it. Proper earth to grow stuff in! I'm so used to growing things in containers and we're a bit late for some plantings so I'm sticking to mostly pots for this year. The usual suspects: lots of herbs, strawberries, raspberries, chilli peppers, salad leaves, radish, maybe some tomatoes too. Our fruit trees are staying in pots due to space, but we have two lots of cherries, three different types of apple, to types of plum and a pear tree (no partridge, sadly). Potatoes in sacks might happen, if I can finangle some space.

Fruit fresh from the plant/tree is the absolute best. Nothing tastes as wonderful.
 
There is some many goddamn deer around here I could shoot them from my porch and they eat everything you plant. Unless of course you shoot them.
 
My original growing plans didn't pan out due to a family member being sick and me having to care for them. I'm still getting some growing in between everything though.
I have 3 zucchini plants and 4 tomatoes growing in pots.
 
Bugaboo said:
My original growing plans didn't pan out due to a family member being sick and me having to care for them. I'm still getting some growing in between everything though.
I have 3 zucchini plants and 4 tomatoes growing in pots.
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Zucchini will take over your entire existence. If you look after those plants right you'll get to the point where you're begging people to please take some god damn zucchini.
 
LazarusOwenhart said:
Zucchini will take over your entire existence. If you look after those plants right you'll get to the point where you're begging people to please take some god damn zucchini.
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I take the zucchini, grate it and lay it on a single layer on a cookie sheet and put in the the freezer in a bag so I can use it in recipes later
 
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