I have been foraging and learning about wild edibles for several years now and focusing on the plants available to me in the Utah desert primarily simply because that is where I live and I enjoy finding edibility in an apparent hostile environment. While out looking for the wild edibles I have learned how to step carefully to avoid getting my socks full of those prickly irritating pieces of grass. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. these grass seeds are edible and abundant in the west utah desert. They should not be ignored but enjoyed.

1. Identification
One of the hardest parts of learning about wild edibles is identification of the plants. Many think that it is dangerous to
forage wild edibles. I think this is a silly idea that comes from our cultivated civilization. We are so disconnected from
nature we don't even know where our foodcomes from. I certainly agree that you should not just go out and start eating
any plat you find in the wild without proper identification but I think we should definitely work to learn all we can about
those plants that grow in our area and work to add them to our diet. With some, identification takes a lot of research
and time. I think the time is worth spending personally and can be very helpful but with grasses identification is not as
big a worry. At least you know you are not going to poison yourself by eating the seeds you find, that is as long as they
are far enough away from man’s chemicals that we seem to think we can't live without. If it is a grass and it has seeds
you can harvest you can eat it.
Preparation
The next thing we need to understand then is preparation. This again is a lost art to many. Even when we eat grains as
part of our diet we generally buy it all cleaned and sterilized and we are not involved with the process of taking it from
plant to table. So here are some ideas of ways to eat grass seed.
Boil or steam it like rice and serve as a side dish.
Toast it like Quinoa and then use it in bread, boil it or make a flour
Grind it and eat it like breakfast cereal such as cracked wheat
There are hundreds of different grasses available to us and seeds are the most important part of our diet so the grasses
we see as we are foraging should not be ignored but rather we should find a way to make them part of our diet.
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