There is still many very old food plants around!
'wild leeks'...eg. variety called Babbington leek, chives, garlics all those have been around for ages. Brassicas..there is kales and turnips..though actual 'varieties' might be hard to point out. Many plants, now thought be 'weeds' were valuable food source that were cultivated as such too. Nettles, fat hen, alexanders, spignel, pignut. Those days they didn't breed anything to be 'pure'. But there is still lot of 'heritage' ones around and wild ones of course.
Supplier for heritage/old varieties..
http://www.thomasetty.co.uk/index.html
http://www.realseeds.co.uk/
http://www.pennardplants.com/index.php
http://www.poyntzfieldherbs.co.uk/catalogue1.asp
http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/hsl/index.php
http://b-and-t-world-seeds.com/
I could go on and on.. BUT..here http://www.pfaf.org/user/default.aspx is good site to give you info of what can be eaten/used from the plant world..I have found many natives plants/trees/shrubs that I wasn't aware that were useable/edible....I'm sure they've been used more back in history..the knowledge of them just have been forgotten over the years!
'wild leeks'...eg. variety called Babbington leek, chives, garlics all those have been around for ages. Brassicas..there is kales and turnips..though actual 'varieties' might be hard to point out. Many plants, now thought be 'weeds' were valuable food source that were cultivated as such too. Nettles, fat hen, alexanders, spignel, pignut. Those days they didn't breed anything to be 'pure'. But there is still lot of 'heritage' ones around and wild ones of course.
Supplier for heritage/old varieties..
http://www.thomasetty.co.uk/index.html
http://www.realseeds.co.uk/
http://www.pennardplants.com/index.php
http://www.poyntzfieldherbs.co.uk/catalogue1.asp
http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/hsl/index.php
http://b-and-t-world-seeds.com/
I could go on and on.. BUT..here http://www.pfaf.org/user/default.aspx is good site to give you info of what can be eaten/used from the plant world..I have found many natives plants/trees/shrubs that I wasn't aware that were useable/edible....I'm sure they've been used more back in history..the knowledge of them just have been forgotten over the years!