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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Mother Nature created potatoes so that cooks wouldn’t have to spend four hours peeling Day Lily tubers for dinner.
I learned plenty from a forest foraging expedition along the banks of the Thornton River last weekend, but that potato lesson may stay with me long after I’ve forgotten what Asarum Virginicum looks like. “Unless you’re going to eat game or fish, it would be difficult to sustain yourself on a diet of things you find in the wild,” said Lyt Wood, the forestry consultant and nature enthusiast who was our guide on the Sunday morning outing.
Truer words were never spoken. On a three-hour hike beside the river, over rocks, up hills, through pasture meadows and atop a ridge, we gathered bags of wild “veggies” for lunch, but the harvest had a sameness. Planning menus around our pickings would be like planning menus around the selection of lettuces from the comer grocery.
Still, while variety may be the spice of both life and dinner, the lesson was valuable.
As scouting adapts to modem fTmes, leaving behind the lessons on outdoor self-sufficiency that were once hallmarks of its progams for boys and girls, fewer of us adults know what to eat if we should ever be stuck in the woods, lost and hungry. Maybe that’s to be expected when we have fewer and fewer patches of forest beyond walking distance of a fast food outlet, but foraging skills remain useful to those who camp and hike.
Besides, foraging has other advantages.
It gives purpose to those goaloriented folks who feel guilty about taking wehkehd h'durs from house-4 work or yard chores for an unproductive stroll in the woods.
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