Reply #11: Here the wild food worth pursuing is mainly berries.

[Fly by night]

Blackberries (much tastier than tame varieties, with much smaller seeds) and black raspberries (we call 'em "black-caps") that are also tasty but way smaller than my Jewel tame black raspberries that really are a treat.

Speaking of which, I was up in my acre+ of blueberries yesterday and noticed that the plants are groaning with developing fruit. This will be the best blueberry year to date, thanks to some of that neighbor's aged mule manure and the 1,000+ bags of leaves that I got by driving through south Nashville neighborhoods in the late fall, already bagged by the homeowners and ready to be put to good use. The leaves make an excellent acidic mulch that also helped choke out the perennial weeds around the berries.

Mother Nature provides, if we'll only take a "minute" to learn her lessons and collect her leavings.