Show Many Wild Weeds ee s Provide Ample Food In Dire ire Emergencies ORLANDO FLA So far as the Wise Woodsman is concerned you can forget the high price of ot food tood in Florida Florida it if you OU want to go back to nature is the name the Indians Indians In give naturalist and educator Oliver Perry 78 78 whose writings teachings and studies have made him nationally known among scientists One of his books Is Edible Wild Plants and from it you OU learn that many weeds you thought only a nuisance nui nui- nui sance sauce can cari save you from starving The rhe May apple he recommends highly It isn't a fruit or flower leaf or root Its It's just a growth found on the wild honeysuckle and yet et says it is delicious raw or orin orin orin in salad spiced or pickled There are the wild sweet potato nut grass and fruits of the cultivated palms But he discourages use of ot the excellent palmetto bud because it kills kilts the tree He says young bracken shoots can be cooked and dressed like asparagus as can the tender shoots of at pokeweed chickweed sorrel and milkweed milkweed he says Is another purpose all edible Its shoots can be used for greens the unripe pods eaten like okra and a coarse brown sugar may be made from the flowers says the Indians would have died without arrowroot which is common in the swamps He also names a wide variety of wild fruits and berries and says If It worst come comes to worst we can always eat grass All AIl the grasses are perfectly wholesome and |