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How To Pickle Cattails For Long-Term Preservation
by Justin K.

As the Native Americans and early settlers knew, if you find cattails you have 4 of the 5 things you need life.

You have the water in which they grow to drink (probably best to boil it for a while of course), you can eat them as food, burn them to make a fire, and weave them to make a structure to sleep under.

Cattails, which are from the scientific genus of Typha, have been used for hundreds of years for all these purposes. Nutrition-wise they are rich in vitamins A, B, and C, and are filled with potassium and phosphorus.

They produce more starch per acre than any other plant known, more than, rice, yams, and even potatoes.

But for reasons that are quite unclear to me they are not as commonly cultivated or harvested as they should be. If you think of the cattail as a huge spring onion, that gives you all the uses you can put it towards.

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