Another challenge? Thanks for sharing it! Though my gear is quite dispersed these days, I want to share my version of ... basically the same items you shared: things to cut with, and things to boil with.
When I saw your two wild food pics, I immediately recognized both (though I had no idea one went by the name plantain, even though I'd tried it before). My second thought was, since you're in Australia, that you were probably going to point out something like: ... though it looks just like the benign nettle plant found in many places around the world, the Australian variety is so poisonous that it can kill you within a few hours. - Sorry for riding around on a stereotype!
Hahaha no worries. In all my time here I've never had a worry re spiders and snakes, but when I moved to the UK the nettles everywhere were brutal, especially when my boy was little and kept brushing against them or falling in them and screaming his head off. Plus wasps!! I found the UK more dangerous than Australia had ever been!!!
Yeah, I'm sure Australia is not that bad in reality. Plus, you are probably used to it! 😆 Hahahaha!
Here in Mexico I gt myself a bit of a reputation for my alleged nettle immunity. Not because I don't get hives from them, they just never bothered me as much as the locals here. But then again, I totally grew up with them in Europe. In fact, I must have been around 20, when a buddy of mine and I got nice and drunk one day, and dared each other to run through a nettle field naked. Does that make you immune? I don't know. I just remember how my skin hates bamboo cuts, getting red, swollen, and horribly irritated. A bad experience I shared with almost all other volunteers working on the same farm... all, but one: A girl from Vietnam, who had grown up with bamboo. She got scratched up just as much as the rest of us, but her skin barely even showed any redness! So yeah, I believe we do have regional superpowers of sorts.
Ha that might be true! Some.people like to put themselves in nettle intentionally as well .. I think it does give you a buzz of some sort! Wasn't it the Romans who used to put them in their winter boots to improve feet circulation or something?
Wow, I never knew that about the Romans. Only how some people fill their bathtub with nettles and lay down in it. Supposedly it prevents rheumatism.
Yes, I guess because of circulation? There's also anecdotal evidence re arthritic knees and woman slapping their knees with it to very good effect. It's little bits of knowledge like this that stand you in good stead for times when we may not have access to conventional medicine.
A-men to that! Let's keep the knowledge alive.