October 28th is Wild Foods Day

This is a holiday for everyone from gourmet cooks to whole food lovers, homesteaders, health nuts and environmentalists. Today is a day to celebrate, seek out and find, or even just learn a little about the wild foods that grow in your area. Wild foods are great nutrition and green, (as long as they are not in an area where pesticides/fungicides etc. are sprayed). I love that eating wild help us to understand the world and seasons around us. Each year I harvest apples, and huckleberries, and can jelly from the blackberries that grow wild in my yard. This unofficial holiday appears (according to my research google search) to have been started by wild life forests and parks as a day to educate people on how to find food in the wild.

(Today is also National Chocolate Day, Plush Animal Lover's Day, St. Jude's Day and Day of International Concern About Young People and Gun Violence. See these and more at LisaLovesHolidays.Blogspot.com)