#but you can should and must overharvest autumn olive

[blujayonthewing]

insane to me that we introduced autumn olive to be decorative and now they're fucking everywhere and choking out native ecosystems and people don't even know you can eat them

#not that eating them would STOP them but like. you know. a lot of wild edibles you should be conscientious about harvesting #but you can should and must overharvest autumn olive #garlic mustard is also edible (AND digging it up [to eat it] is actually useful) but that's part of why it was introduced in the first plac #as far as I can tell autumn olive was introduced for a variety of reasons but human consumption wasn't really one of them #anyway I dunno it's insane to me how many extremely normal very common plants are literally food and nobody TELLS us that #and especially wild when it's plants that are considered-- rightly or no-- some kind of problem #dandelions are like.... imagine if your lawn just kept sprouting spinach. just all year long no matter what you did #you can EAT them things!!! in lots of different ways!!! and people just don't KNOW that!!! #anyway eat autumn olives they are beautiful and tasty and highly invasive #about me