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Reply #1 - Oct 26th, 2011 at 12:44pm
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Mmmm!  Wintergreen!  Eat the berries, make tea with the leaves.  Yum!
  
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Reply #2 - Oct 26th, 2011 at 2:36pm
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OK, I'll bite (pun intended).

Who here has either gobbled down some wintergreen berries -- or made tea from its leaves -- while on a canoe trip?

Bear berries?

Actually, let me broaden the question: Who here has gathered food or drink from nature while in Quetico (or the BWCA), besides fish?

We've eaten blueberries, of course. And we've made pine needle tea. But nothing else, I don't think.

Who else? What? When? How?

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Reply #3 - Oct 26th, 2011 at 8:46pm
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Rose Hips, years ago, probably late August one year.  They are supposed to be very high in vitamin C.  I tried eating them, and also tried steeping them in some boiling water like tea.  I wasn't impressed.   Tongue   But they weren't awful, either.
  
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Reply #4 - Oct 27th, 2011 at 6:18am
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I don't think I'm the only mushroom picker 'round here.

But of course I never pick wild plants in the provincial or national parks - that's illegal.
  
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Reply #5 - Oct 27th, 2011 at 12:47pm
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Thanks for the OT move.  I thought there already was a Wild Edibles thread, but couldn't find it to bump.

Yes wintergreen berries & tea.  Stuffed a trout with the berries once, added a nice tart bump.

Blueberries, strawberries, rasperries, saskatoons, pincherries are all on the menu when available.  As a child my family used to spend whole days picking berries in the bush.  Followed by a day or two of cleaning & jamming.

I'm wary about mushrooms.  Mom picks them.  If I'm with someone who's confident then I'll eat them.  A couple years ago someone picked a bunch of morels and at the campfire said, "If only we had some butter."  I pack butter!  So we had fried speckled trout with morels.  Yummy!

Sumac tea is good too.

Pretty sure you can pick the fruit in parks.  Back when the family would pick we would get our spots from the park staff and often picking in the park.  That was 25 years ago, maybe things changed.  The distinction being that you can't uproot a plant, but you can pick the berries. 

Proper mushroom picking is cutting the base so it can re-sprout.  Yanking out of the ground is bad form.

Part of me wants to try the Survivorman diet during a trip.  I'd still pack food, but just try to snare something small or catch some frogs.  Legally, of course.
  
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Reply #6 - Oct 27th, 2011 at 1:50pm
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I thought there already was a Wild Edibles thread, but couldn't find it to bump.


Uh, I apologize if I violated a rule or courtesy about where  to post topics. ...

I've seen a lot of mushrooms in Canada of various types, but I would never feel confident about picking and consuming them. Maybe morels, if I ever came across a patch, tho I assume I go north at the wrong time for those.

Are turtles protected in Canada? Is there a season? I confess the thought has crossed our minds on more than one occasion.

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Reply #7 - Oct 27th, 2011 at 2:06pm
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Are turtles protected in Canada? Is there a season? I confess the thought has crossed our minds on more than one occasion.



I pretty sure they have a season, but from looking at the Ontario Fishing regs, I'm still unsure as to the legality of catching/consuming them in the Q?
Plenty of snappers there. I doubt many visitors would be interested, so don't know if over consumption would be an issue?
I'd like to grill one over the campfire IF it was legal?
Anyone know for sure.
  
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Reply #8 - Oct 27th, 2011 at 2:34pm
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The Species At Risk designation appears to be largely toothless.  You can hunt them with a fishing licence.  I'm surprised to see them on the list as I often see them while tripping.

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NOTE: It is illegal to harvest bullfrogs or turtles in
provincial parks or Crown Game Preserves.

Snapping turtles and bullfrogs may be taken under the
authority of a valid sport or conservation fishing licence.
No commercial harvest of snapping turtles or bullfrogs is
permitted. You may only take snapping turtles by box or
funnel traps or by your bare hands. You may not remove
the upper shell from any snapping turtle until immediately
before it is prepared for consumption.
  
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Reply #9 - Oct 27th, 2011 at 3:05pm
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Well that settles that.
THX
  
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