2 Week Wild Foods Challenge
I am challenging myself to not buy any food hardly for two weeks. Well, I know I still need to buy purified water and greens for juicing to stay healthy and maybe some supplies for sprouting Sunflower Greens later on, but everything else is on hold.
I have access to all the Coconuts, Coconut Sprouts, Seaweeds, Aloe, and Noni I can eat. There is also some wild Greens, Cucumbers, and Tomatoes I can find. I am sure there are a few more things I can find to eat too.
I am tired of getting low-quality, high-cost foods that don't do much for me. I ate $400 worth of Goji Berries in a month and sorry people, but I didn't feel any healthier. I am determined to eat more homegrown, and wild foods. I have already run out of fruit. Mango season is late so none of those right now for me.
I may be cheating because I have been a chef and just might have enough food to last me that long. I need to use that stuff up anyway.
I started on Monday and will continue at least until Monday, June 29th.
Money is not the issue, I just want to eat fresh foods and become more connected to my environment by gathering and picking an increasing amount of my own foods. Local foods are known to contain the right proportion of nutrients and anti-biotics necessary for us to live and thrive there. I'd rather spend money on gas driving all around the island to gather and pick food than to buy low quality food that has been imported from overseas and sitting around for a while or something that is local, which may or may not be organic and is not fresh-picked. I live in Hawaii which is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and most of everything we use here comes from overseas. I also enjoy challenging myself and conducting the experiment on myself. I have a feeling I will get healthier from doing this. What do you think?
Come on people! Join the challenge if possible.
This is a picture of everything that went into one of my juices recently:
I have access to all the Coconuts, Coconut Sprouts, Seaweeds, Aloe, and Noni I can eat. There is also some wild Greens, Cucumbers, and Tomatoes I can find. I am sure there are a few more things I can find to eat too.
I am tired of getting low-quality, high-cost foods that don't do much for me. I ate $400 worth of Goji Berries in a month and sorry people, but I didn't feel any healthier. I am determined to eat more homegrown, and wild foods. I have already run out of fruit. Mango season is late so none of those right now for me.
I may be cheating because I have been a chef and just might have enough food to last me that long. I need to use that stuff up anyway.
I started on Monday and will continue at least until Monday, June 29th.
Money is not the issue, I just want to eat fresh foods and become more connected to my environment by gathering and picking an increasing amount of my own foods. Local foods are known to contain the right proportion of nutrients and anti-biotics necessary for us to live and thrive there. I'd rather spend money on gas driving all around the island to gather and pick food than to buy low quality food that has been imported from overseas and sitting around for a while or something that is local, which may or may not be organic and is not fresh-picked. I live in Hawaii which is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and most of everything we use here comes from overseas. I also enjoy challenging myself and conducting the experiment on myself. I have a feeling I will get healthier from doing this. What do you think?
Come on people! Join the challenge if possible.
This is a picture of everything that went into one of my juices recently:
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Permalink Reply by Mariam on -
Nice, you can do it....but I would start investing in creating your own garden
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Permalink Reply by Kiani on -
I've got gardens in different climate zones of the island. Got Noni, Coconuts, Dandelion, Papaya (Fruit, Leaf, Seeds and Sprouts), Ti Leaf, and Coffee Fruit near the mountainous region where it is rainy and lush. Got some Banana Leaf (no fruit right now), Coconut Sprouts, and Tomatoes growing by the beach. I have a real estate license which helps me to find out the situation with abandoned gardens and fruit/coconut trees in my neighborhood. Then I look up the owner, find his/her/their phone number, call them and suggest a work exchange for the crops. Just trimming a Coconut Tree (not recommended fro everyone) may score you enough Coconuts for a month! There are some places that are public property, which according to local laws, allow Hawaiians to gather their native crops without restriction. I have an acre here in the country that is next to dozens of acres of preservation land owned by the state which allows people to roam (no camping) and plant trees like Coconut or undercrops like Noni without cutting down trees. That's a great place to score wild foods after you have gotten the hang of identifying and harvesting them. I have lived here my whole life and have over 1000 third cousins, so I have a good chance of finding people that know me and care about me and will be willing to share some Lemons, Tamarind, Avocados, etc. which helps too. Nothing is going to stop me!
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Permalink Reply by Kiani on
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Remember, I am not purchasing any local produce. Purchasing produce from a farmer encourages them to pick the crops too early to last longer on the shelf or during transport. Prematurely picked fruits in particular are known to be more acid forming in the system causing all kinds of complications, contain enzyme inhibitors which make digestion more difficult and may tax the body by having to manufacture the digestive enzymes itself, and the life force present in foods, which helps proper utilization of nutrients by giving them an ionic charge, fades away after only 48 hours. Yes, being in Hawai'i (the location as mentioned) does help and yes, having put out the word to many people for five years strong is helping me to get a lot of what I need and more variety of the foods I need.
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Permalink Reply by Silverfire on -
What a great idea Kiani! Please keep us posted!
I've been thinking of doing something similar when it gets warmer here and my garden has more than just greens in it.
And I'll have to overcome my shyness and start asking about harvesting fruit trees going to waste in my local area.
Hawaii sounds like a really good place to do this in. :D Good luck!
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Permalink Reply by Kiani on
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Well, I just got up. Drank a glass of purified water. I usually eat some fruit in the morning, of which I have none at the moment. I can go straight to drinking some Coconut Water and be fine. Not sure what my meal and drink plans are for the rest of the day yet.
Approach is a very delicate matter when suggesting to relieve a homeowner of excess fruit or Coconuts. I ask my intuition if this house will work for my benefit first. If there is a fence, I pass on. Some people hate visitors and may be carrying a gun. Be careful. Agricultural theft is a felony and there is no raw food in jail, so be sure to do the right thing.
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Permalink Reply by YogaBrudder on -
I really want to learn nature walking. I'm not ab out to eat something in the woods unknowingly, but I really want to. Onward!
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Permalink Reply by Kiani on
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I am planning to take my meetup group out for a guided hike. I will share my knowledge of edible wild plants foods along the way. Be careful of plants that may be poisonous or toxic. Be sure to identify the plant first before eating it.
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Permalink Reply by Gil on -
As a NYer, I guess I have always had this romanticized idea of Hawaii, lava soil and lush local produce...so it was interesting to learn that you guys get a lot from overseas. It sounds like a really cool thing you are doing and i think you can totally do it. You've got noni? Awesome!
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Permalink Reply by Kiani on
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Yes here in the island we import as well as export produce. Makes you wonder. Some farmers sign contracts with California distributors to exclusively supply them. So if I wanted their produce, which may grow next door to me, it would have to be shipped to California, marked up, then shipped back. Why?
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Permalink Reply by Chicory on -
cool! how lucky are you to have all that deliciousness growing nearby :). I've been able to forage some wild arugula, dandelion greens, and sorrel. I want purslane soooooo bad, but the only place I can ever find it is heavily sprayed/ fertilized lawns or growing out of a crack on the side of the street. Whyyyyy???!!
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