cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/22446624
Have you ever had an especially rewarding, adventurous, dangerous, or really stupid experience of harvesting/foraging fruit?
I tend to live a sheltered life, so I don’t have anything too exciting to share. I’ve harvested bananas with a hornets’ nest on the underside of a leaf multiple times, but nothing unusual ever happened. I’ve gone wading through the swamp looking for aguaje, but the anacondas had already been hunted to extinction in that area. I’ve stood under a fruiting durian tree without a helmet, but it seems that durians don’t just fall from the sky when I’m hungry.
Does anyone have an exciting or uplifting story to share?
Oddly enough, in a lot of places pawpaws grow, they are becoming more common. The removal of natural predators and strict restrictions on hunting have lead to deer being overabundant. Deer eat the seedlings of many trees, but they don’t eat pawpaw leaves. This is giving pawpaws an edge over other types of tree.
One recommended way to increase pollination of the trees is to spray the trees with a fish emulsion to attract flies, but I can’t bring myself to create a spray bottle of fish and get myself covered in it while walking through the woods.