Wild food and game

In the chapters

• Chapter 7 The Orchard and the Wild
  At the Bench: 3. Top-working a wild tree
• Chapter 10 The Water
  The Story: The wild water and the law

Documents 16

• 36 Heirloom Fruit Tree Grafting Methods
• 37 Berlin Wild Edibles Guide
• 38 Botanical Cheese Coagulants In Berlin
• 59 Traditional Wild Fishing Methods
• 85 Fig Sap Rennet Extraction Details
• 86 Botanical Cheese Coagulant Process
• 96 Cold-Hardy Viticulture and Winemaking
• 107 Berlin Herbal Infusion Guide
• 108 Wild Honey Mead Formulation
• 128 Heritage Cow Milk Yield Conversion
• 130 Winter Foraging Caloric Efficiency
• 135 Brandenburg Mushroom Cultivation and Foraging
• 136 Low-Tech Apiculture in Berlin-Brandenburg
• 145 Brandenburg Game Management and Gastronomy
• 153 Post-Industrial Vegetable Gastronomy
• 155 Berlin Off-Grid Meat Mains

On the Menu

Game terrine Mushroom ragout Venison ragout Roast boar Elderflower cordial Fish sauce and mushroom ketchup

In the Workshop

The mushroom bed

In the log 25

• 12 confirmed
• 7 amended
• 2 partly confirmed
• 4 unresolved
• 8 marked for safety

• O10 confirmed Safety Pear on quince: prunasin → HCN at union kills join; unknown wild roots may do the same
• O3 amended Safety Wild garlic look-alikes: Convallaria, Colchicum, Arum all lethal/severe; smell test fails by olfactory fatigue; Brandenburg Red List Cat. 1, picking forbidden
• O6 amended Safety Heavy metals: dandelion, nettle, plantain accumulate Pb/Cd; no verges, railways, brownfields
• O9 amended Safety Mushrooms: Brandenburg pine forest boletes/chanterelles; Chernobyl Cs-137 still present; Pilzberater; death cap
• A11 amended Safety Sow: >80 % of first-72-h piglet deaths are crushing; farrowing rail 25 cm out and 25 cm up; creep 32–35 °C falling to 25 by end of week one; sow 18–20 °C; savaging by …
• A14 amended Safety Avian influenza housing orders (Stallpflicht) every autumn since 2016, virus enzootic in wild birds of the Mark; roof and wild-duck-free trough the defence; three hens …
• A4 amended Safety African swine fever in Brandenburg wild boar from September 2020, still present, ~100 % lethal to pigs, no vaccine, not a human disease; one pig, fenced from woods, no …
• B9 amended Safety Trichinella: every part of an untested pig cooked to 70 °C at centre; no raw Mett, cold-smoked raw sausage or air-dried ham from an untested pig; dies in 1 min at 60, at …
• K13 confirmed Sheffield water-driven grinding wheels by the 1500s; Huntsman 1740 crucible steel, first homogeneous steel in Europe
• G43 confirmed Heinz Ellenberg, Göttingen, indicator values 1974 (R 1 to 9 for reaction, N for nitrogen); sand acid indicators sheep's sorrel, corn spurrey, heather, silver grass …
• F35 unresolved Ha locus Pina/Pinb: both wild-type = soft (8–10 % protein, pastry), mutation = hard (12–15 %, bread); soft wheats spring-sown 300–350/m²; sprouting in wet August
• O13 confirmed Standard on wild/seedling root: first fruit ~8–10 yr ("up to a decade"), life 80–120 yr, carbon peak at 18 yr; dwarf orchards replanted every 15–25 yr
• O38 unresolved Juice ~two thirds of fruit weight; Apfelwein dry on wild yeast keeps a year
• A22 confirmed German (and Brandenburg) soils selenium-poor, feed supplementation supplies eggs and pork; phytate halves zinc absorption from whole-grain diets; inland goitre, iodised …
• A25 confirmed Breed yields 7,000–11,000 kg (Fleckvieh etc.), Dexter 2,000–3,500, are concentrate-fed; forage-only 3,250–7,000 kg, 6,000 kg baseline = 16 l/day
• B28 confirmed Bolt gun (cartridge captive bolt, PTB-marked) and cartridges purchasable by any adult without a firearms licence; a box of 100 cartridges lasts decades dry; rifle/pistol …
• B61 confirmed Hide area: 4–5 m² per cow; apron ~0.5 m², boots ~1 m²; pig skin better eaten (hard to degrease, tans badly at home); brain tan one brain per hide, warm paste, stretched …
• E42 unresolved Wild sustained yield of a Havel-type lake 20–50 kg/ha/yr all species
• E50 partly confirmed Nettle cord: late-summer stems, bast, retting, two-ply reverse wrap; strength values lost in extraction
• M32 confirmed Figs being tried on Berlin south walls; cardoon dies below minus 15 °C; nettle for fresh cheese only; Galium verum as Labkraut, gave Cheshire its colour more than its …
• M38 confirmed Nettle: 20 g young leaves steeped in hot water into 2 litres of milk, fresh cheese only
• D21 partly confirmed Gruit: bog myrtle, yarrow, wild rosemary; a lordly monopoly (Grutrecht)
• D26 confirmed Wild yeasts on fruit skin give up at about 5 % alcohol; true yeast present in tiny numbers takes over; vinegar bacteria wait for air
• D28 confirmed Cider ferments by itself in a fortnight; dry cider about 6 % ABV; wild ferment 2 to 4 weeks at 15 to 20 °C; rack within a day of bubbling stopping; keeps a year cold
• D50 unresolved Foraging: aerial parts only, a hand-bouquet from any one place, nothing from a roadside