https://survivaltek.com/?p=3655 Teaching the Ways and Means to Survive Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:53:52 -0400 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 https://survivaltek.com/?p=3655&cpage=1#comment-7609 Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:02:12 +0000 https://survivaltek.com/?p=3655#comment-7609 I remember back East these Cattails grew abundantly along all the creek bed shore lines. We used to cut them about midway up the stalk and they wound up about three feet long at this point and then we would stick them in the sand and light the cattail on the end on fire. They had an odd but not bad smell and that smell along with the smoke the cattail created, seemed to keep the mosquito’s away while we fished the shoreline.

]]> https://survivaltek.com/?p=3655&cpage=1#comment-2614 Mon, 23 Sep 2013 18:05:45 +0000 https://survivaltek.com/?p=3655#comment-2614 There is a book called MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN. It is a story of a young man who lived in a hollow tree. It describes how he ate the root of the cattails (TUBERS like potatoes) and made flour from roasted acorns.

]]> https://survivaltek.com/?p=3655&cpage=1#comment-2160 Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:57:38 +0000 https://survivaltek.com/?p=3655#comment-2160 Just like pine cone not all parts are edible…

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