Comments on: Urban scrumping http://vancouver.metblogs.com/2008/08/18/urban-scrumping/ Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:54:37 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: mach1 http://vancouver.metblogs.com/2008/08/18/urban-scrumping/comment-page-1/#comment-4129 mach1 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:00:59 +0000 http://vancouver.metblogs.com/?p=2198#comment-4129 serendipitiously ; sorry serendipitiously ; sorry

]]> By: mach1 http://vancouver.metblogs.com/2008/08/18/urban-scrumping/comment-page-1/#comment-4128 mach1 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:58:43 +0000 http://vancouver.metblogs.com/?p=2198#comment-4128 Well this sure is serpenditiously delicious. Blogging, okay-writing from Prince George home of ice jams, burning saw mills and disgraced police chiefs....I ventured mildly far from home to an organic farm and sampled just today for the first time: yellow raspberries. Positively delightful. A great reminder on how far we are away we can get from our food sources from nature to grower to can/jar to grocer to cupboard,... even if they are in our backyard......when really the best things in life are both free and in BC.... Well this sure is serpenditiously delicious. Blogging, okay-writing
from Prince George home of ice jams, burning saw mills and disgraced police chiefs….I ventured mildly far from home to an organic farm
and sampled just today for the first time: yellow raspberries.

Positively delightful. A great reminder on how far we are away
we can get from our food sources from nature to grower to can/jar to grocer
to cupboard,… even if they are in our
backyard……when really the best things in life are both free
and in BC….

]]> By: Ryan Cousineau http://vancouver.metblogs.com/2008/08/18/urban-scrumping/comment-page-1/#comment-4104 Ryan Cousineau Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:41:37 +0000 http://vancouver.metblogs.com/?p=2198#comment-4104 The most common blackberries around are an invasive species (Himalayan Blackberries, rubus armeniacus (aka rubus discolor?)). There is a native blackberry species (rubus ursinus) but it has been wildly outcompeted by the interloper, and I have only seen bushes I believed to be r. ursinus twice. The most common blackberries around are an invasive species (Himalayan Blackberries, rubus armeniacus (aka rubus discolor?)). There is a native blackberry species (rubus ursinus) but it has been wildly outcompeted by the interloper, and I have only seen bushes I believed to be r. ursinus twice.

]]> By: castewar http://vancouver.metblogs.com/2008/08/18/urban-scrumping/comment-page-1/#comment-4099 castewar Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:35:20 +0000 http://vancouver.metblogs.com/?p=2198#comment-4099 I think Canada was miles of tangled blackberry bushes until everybody started hacking away - when the world ends, the bushes will rise again! Apple jelly is awesome - I have friends that have grape vines and their red grape jelly is amazing! I think Canada was miles of tangled blackberry bushes until everybody started hacking away – when the world ends, the bushes will rise again!

Apple jelly is awesome – I have friends that have grape vines and their red grape jelly is amazing!

]]> By: Ryan Cousineau http://vancouver.metblogs.com/2008/08/18/urban-scrumping/comment-page-1/#comment-4098 Ryan Cousineau Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:55:21 +0000 http://vancouver.metblogs.com/?p=2198#comment-4098 Blackerries are so easy to find it barely qualifies as sport. A guy I was talking to yesterday swears he found wild blueberries somewhere in Port Moody, and thanks to one neighbor's expansionist specimen, we now have the start of a banana tree growing on our side of the fence. Crab apples in another neighbor's yard, and crab apple jelly is surprisingly interesting. One relatively common but overlooked wild edible is <a href="http://www.ecosystems.bc.ca/Clay%20Valley/CD-ROM%20project/Assets/photo_htms/salal_berries.htm" rel="nofollow">Salal berries</a>. Even I have passed these by, previously assuming they were inedible. Blackerries are so easy to find it barely qualifies as sport. A guy I was talking to yesterday swears he found wild blueberries somewhere in Port Moody, and thanks to one neighbor’s expansionist specimen, we now have the start of a banana tree growing on our side of the fence.

Crab apples in another neighbor’s yard, and crab apple jelly is surprisingly interesting.

One relatively common but overlooked wild edible is Salal berries. Even I have passed these by, previously assuming they were inedible.

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