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It will be alright if you're starving! Looked like there was a lot of waste, I think I'd eat all that if it was tender enough. Do you know what the nutritional content is, @joel ?neat find but what a pile of work for a bit of food.
No, it is a sub for artichoke flower heads, the whole sunflower plant is edible. I would think sun chokes would be another sunflower that would keep you fat & happy. I do agree that cutting up the whole cooked head to eat would be best, but the sub for artichoke is lost if you eat the whole head.It will be alright if you're starving! Looked like there was a lot of waste, I think I'd eat all that if it was tender enough. Do you know what the nutritional content is, @joel ?
Most, but not all plant are more nutritional raw, mushroom are better for you cooked.That's good! Do you know what the nutritional difference is between raw sunflower seeds and roasted? I used to eat them raw and prefer unsalted when eating roasted.
Lowes, here has big red pots for $10.00, that would work for 48 inch sunflowers. I use 15 gallon pot made from cutting drums in half.Thank you, Joel. I wonder if this would work for wild sunflowers. I believe the day is coming when foraging for food will be important, and this is good for summer. I've tried many times to grow sunflowers with zero luck. I've read that they do not transplant well. I think I'm going to start some in pots this year. A client of mine had some really nice ones in a pot last year. Their roots are not too deep.
Why?Looks like a good source of oil. If you raise rabbits oil is particularly important.
Many rabbits are very low in fat but especially wild rabbits. i think the term was "rabbit starvation" you could eat lots of very lean meat and yet without the fats or oils you would starve anyway. There are stories about eastern montana during the first great depression when people only had rabbits to eat.Why?
I think we need more information about this, maybe even a thread about how to get oil from your plants in your garden and what to plant for oil. I have often thought of sunflowers for oil. Work, yes, lots of work, but oh so necessary if it all goes south.I am all for foraging wild plant in the fields & forest, BUT I think if you believe that the day is coming when you will need to "live off the land", then you should invest in perennial vegetable now & flowering plants that you think are pretty & you can eat if you need to, like daylilies & sunflowers.
Why wonder the woods & get shot by an amateur hunter who thought you were a deer. When you can stay safe at home & harvest those plants you control on your land, 0.50 acres is a big plot if you plant it well. No one needs to know you are eating flowers, like Yucca blooms & red buds.
I think we need more information about this, maybe even a thread about how to get oil from your plants in your garden and what to plant for oil. I have often thought of sunflowers for oil. Work, yes, lots of work, but oh so necessary if it all goes south.
I think you are right about the black seeds. A few years ago I did lots of reading about this.Good point about expanding on the oil idea.
As for sunflowers for oil, my understanding is that Black Oil Sunflower Seeds or BOSS, is the better variety for oil, than the gray striped that we eat as roasted snacks.
Once upon a time I found a good black seed variety but can't really remember the name of it now. I think it was Russian Mammoth?? Or something like that.. I have since tried to find more seed, but it's near impossible now.
I'm not sure that the black seeds sold in bird feed mixes is the right kind for the better oil option, but it is something if need be........and I think it was those that grew so prolific last year. Not just one stalk, but they had several branches all with flower heads too.
Oh, and I think there are 'oil extractors'(?) or whatever kind of machine available to purchase if you wanted to do that.
I have lots of oils, shortening, lard stored, but also keep back the fats cooked (rendered) from meats as well. Plus many of my canned meats or broths all have a layer of fat in the jars.
I raised & butcherer rabbits & never heard this, I thought Caribou meant you needed oil for cooking rabbit.Many rabbits are very low in fat but especially wild rabbits. i think the term was "rabbit starvation" you could eat lots of very lean meat and yet without the fats or oils you would starve anyway. There are stories about eastern montana during the first great depression when people only had rabbits to eat.
Looks like a good source of oil. If you raise rabbits oil is particularly important.
I raised & butcherer rabbits & never heard this, I thought Caribou meant you needed oil for cooking rabbit.
That why I ask, thanks.
The head of the sunflower, right.We raised them for the chickens. Just cut the whole head off and let them dry and fed the stems to the cows.
The head of the sunflower, right.
Whew!Yes !
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