Preparing for Coronageddon

RosemaryDW

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We’ve yet to shop for toilet paper or water, no human hoarding! Our tortoise could live in our backyard presumably forever with what grows out there. But naturally I’m convinced I should stockpile for her, Our farmers market has been converted to a drive thru and what could happen if we couldn’t get to the grocery store? She might starve! :eek:

Fortunately we’ve had rain so yesterday I took a break from Zoom meetings and went out for some weeds, a lot of weeds. There is a massive pile of chicories: wild lettuce, prickly sow thistle, bristly ox-tongue. The first field of mallow I saw looked like it had been recently hit with something like Round-Up, the lower leaves were dying while the ones on top still looked fine so I hiked a little further for growth that looked healthy. I grabbed a bunch of young wild mustard, deciding later in the day I might keep at least some of it for human consumption (hey, I might not be able to make it to the store, right?). I grabbed some nasturtium but didn’t look carefully; the leaves I brought home were sad so I kept the flowers for a human salad and tossed the rest. On the way home I was excited to find a wild pea, a first. I’m not sure if she’ll eat it but it’s worth a try. Not pictured is a massive pile of bindweed; I found a ton of it growing not up other plants, which is normal, but just up and over itself? Made it easy to harvest.

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Here’s what it looked like cleaned and bagged up:

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Now who exactly is going to feed this if I happen to spend two weeks in bed I don’t know but we are READY! Lol
 

MichaelL

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Tortoise buffet right there!! Nice preparation lol. ? ?
 

ZenHerper

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...Now who exactly is going to feed this if I happen to spend two weeks in bed I don’t know but we are READY! Lol

I always find it worthwhile to my sanity to write out care instructions for all the dependents and attach them to food containers/enclosures.

If I ever have to call or text for help I'd get the, you know, helpful sort of help.
 
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