Happy belated birthday, rabidsamfan

[dreamflower02]

I'm sorry I missed wishing you the best of the day, yesterday, so I hope you will enjoy this. Two drabbles and half a drabble, featuring Samwise Gamgee:

Summary: Regarding something every hobbit needs to learn...
(Rated G)

Bounty

Comments

[songspinner9]

Ooooh...love this! I remember going on a nature walk with someone who knew that sort of thing and realizing how much edible stuff was in the forests around here.

[dreamflower02]

I was inspired by a book I recently found at the library: The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants by Samuel Thayer.

Did you know that the ubiquitous Queen Anne's Lace is actually wild carrot?

[rabidsamfan]

Ah, that's marvelous! I love it that you've got the two generations of lesson sandwiching the use of the skill. Thank you so much for adding to my pile of prezzies!

[dreamflower02]

*grin*

I'm so glad you liked it! I love hobbits and food...and foraging is a skill I think most hobbits would have learned early in life...

[baranduin]

This is wonderful! I can completely see it all happening that way.

[dreamflower02]

Thank you! That's the best compliment ever!

[ex_lbilover]

Oh, I love the way you link these three vignettes, and how Sam can apply what his dad taught him and then pass it on to his own son. Just beautiful!

[dreamflower02]

I honestly think foraging was probably a skill most young hobbits were taught quite early in life; I've always imagined that on the Quest the hobbits did just as much as the Big Folk to keep the Company well-fed! (No greens in the winter, but nuts and roots and a well thrown stone to bring down a squirrel or a bird for the pot...)

[shirebound]

Wonderful. I love it when practical wisdom is carried through the generations.

[dreamflower02]

Thank you, dear! Passing down practical wisdom is just good hobbit-sense, after all! ;-)