Be Practical! Fight inflation at home. Learn to eat "wild" food plants (Part 3)

 Part 3 - Wild Food Plants 

 Learn to eat "wild" food plants 

Dr Abe V Rotor

                     Living with Nature - School on Blog [avrotor.blogspot.com]

Talinum; Himbaba-o

 

Alugbati; Bagbagkong

 

Malunggay  Saluyot

 

Pako'; Dampalit

 

 Gulasiman; gabi

These edible wild plants - and many more - are indigenous to the Philippines and ethnic culture. They just sprout from the ground soon after the first rain of the monsoon season. That's why "we shall never want." Food is everywhere at any time of the year. The Philippines is lucky indeed. No one has actually died of hunger.

Research on the scientific names and botanical descriptiobn of these plants. Label the plants shown above. Include the following: 

Kalunay or amaranth, kamkamote, kadios, katuray, Madre de cacao flowers, labong (bamboo shoot), ubi, tugui,  wild chestnut (buslig), papait, tultullaya, aplas (wild fig), tabtabukol, aratilis.   
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• Taro (Colocasia sp.). The Palawan gabi grows twice the height of man and produces a large corm.  There is a technique in preparing and cooking the corm. Or making starch out of it.  The key is thorough cleaning and cooking. 

• Talisay (Terminalia catappa) bears nut like fruits that contain small seeds that taste like almond.

• Balleba (Vallisnera) is an aquatic plant growing in clear streams, ponds and lakes, whose leaves appear like ribbon, hence it is also called ribbon grass. The leaves are gathered and served fresh with tomato, onion and salt.

• Mulberry (Morus alba). Its leaves are the chief food of silkworm.  The fruits when ripe are purple to black, and while very small are juicy and fairly sweet 

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Add other wild food plants not listed here.which are found in you community.

"The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land." -  Abraham Lincoln

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