hawgrider
06-05-2015, 07:29 AM
Bushcraft expert Ray Mears harvests and prepares cattail for food in two different ways.
In spite of Mears’ proper admonition that cattails are called “greater reedmace,” I know not a single person who does not refer to them as cattails. But Mears is also quite correct in identifying cattails as a good source of starchy food.
The great naturalist and wild food icon Euell Gibbons also referred to the reeds as nature’s “supermarket of the swamp.”
http://www.wideopenspaces.com/cattails-make-excellent-wild-food-source-video/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=37&v=bDlDiaJOHR0
In spite of Mears’ proper admonition that cattails are called “greater reedmace,” I know not a single person who does not refer to them as cattails. But Mears is also quite correct in identifying cattails as a good source of starchy food.
The great naturalist and wild food icon Euell Gibbons also referred to the reeds as nature’s “supermarket of the swamp.”
http://www.wideopenspaces.com/cattails-make-excellent-wild-food-source-video/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=37&v=bDlDiaJOHR0