Monday, August 18, 2008

Apache Nature Food

I will give you this exactly like it was given to me. Some of the plants I know what they are and where they are and some I am not sure.
Walnuts: Grow wild and used often in cooking
Acorn: A real survival food. Used for many things.
Juniper Berries: Boil and eat like raisins
Pinon Nuts: Really great nature food
Grass Nuts: (Papago Lily, Wild Onion) The bulb is boiled and eaten
Squaw Bush: Berries are dried and ground for juice and stems are chewed for headache medicineOther Plants used for Food
Wild spinach: Pick the leaves and clean it about 3 to 4 times. Boil and when done starin it and rinse it again. Squeeze out and put in balls until all is squezed out. Fry in shortening and salt
Narrow Leaf Yucca: Pick the blossom them clean and rinse it. Boil it until tender and soft just like sprout. Vegetable food.
Agave (Century Plant): (Mescal) The agave stalk and root can be roasted and the inner part eaten.
Stawberry cactus: (Porcupine Bedgelog) The fruit is edible and it makes good jelly.
Prickly Pear: (Megenta Blossom) The fruit is adible and it maks good jelly.
Sunflower: Edible food. The seeds are mixed with roated corn and eaten.
Milk Weed: The sap used to remove warts.
Greasewood: Leaves boiled into a tea and used for medicine for colds.
Manzanita: The berries are edible
Aspen: Inner bark made into medicine....health tea
Wild Grapes: Especially god for wonderful jelly.
Yucca Fruit: (Apache Banana) Yellow when ripe. May be picked and allowed to ripen. Edible
Cattail: Take shortening or lard and mix the fluff fromt the cattail until you get a nice thick poulice. Good for burns. I know that this works because my Grandmother Porter use it.

MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNOW FOR SURE WHAT THE PLANT IS AND WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE BEFORE YOU USE IT. DO YOUR HOMEWORK TO BE SAFE.

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