| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| Slim |
fiddleheadsAnyone on your side of the pond eat fiddleheads in the spring?If so, do you stick to the Ostrich Fern? Do you even have Ostrich Fern? |
| sean |
I don't think we do. Mind you I've only looked for it in a half-hearted fashion. |
| cab |
Not a lot of people hunt for them over here. Off the top of my head, I can't recall which of the ferns over here are edible (or, rather, least toxic). |
| Jamanda |
Do you know what the Latin name for the ferns you eat is Cpg03? |
| cab |
pfaf lists two under that common name:
http://pfaf.org/database/search_name.php?ALLNAMES=ostrich I don't off hand know whether you get them here, the scientific name of one of them suggests perhaps not. |
| Jamanda |
The articles say that one is occasionally naturalised here, and doesn't even mention us for the other - so no, would be the answer. |
| Slim |
Hmmm.... somehow I missed that this had been replied to! oops!
Oh well, I've put up some more info the other fiddlehead (not to be confused with bracken!) thread |