Lenny

Look into native plants. There are so many edible things that you can just leave in the wasteland that is your yard and they’ll take over. Here in Tennessee we have pawpaws and maypops for fruit, tomatoes that pop up randomly, garden greens like wood sorrel and lambs quarters, and a bunch of other things that absolutely take over given half a chance. Sure, if you try and grow the seed packets from your local Lowes you’ll have issues with pests and whatnot, but there is so much more food out there than these varieties.

Also !foraging@lemm.ee

Wild greens, berries, fruit, tubers, flowers, pollen for dough… the world is SO edible!

Morels soon!

I’ve eaten 6 of the ones on your list! Hoping to add morels very soon.

Black staining polypore is also one that is super easy to ID, the very edges are edible, the inside fronds get very tough, but you can cook those up to make a phenomenal goth broth that works well in chicken noodle soup.

My dad bought me a $300 ice cream maker - it actually churns out really delicious soft serve style ice cream with barely any work. The issue is it’s about 100 lbs, the size of a small HVAC unit, and I put it away in our basement storage area. At this point it’s less effort to just buy the damn ice cream.

I upvoted because this isn’t reddit.

If I were in your shoes…

I carry around a dormant volcano of anger and contempt, if they try and pull this shit it’ll be known in a several mile radius, and the ash cloud of retribution will do damage for years to come. Hell, at this point they don’t even need to come for me, I just need a diminishing number of additional tipping points.

I probably need therapy lol

Wait are we supposed to carry these around? I became a permanent resident back in 2010 and I don’t think I’ve ever taken mine out of my filing cabinet.