{"id":970,"date":"2013-03-01T16:03:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T21:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/gbay_blog\/?p=970"},"modified":"2014-01-16T23:15:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T04:15:59","slug":"wild-chives-friend-or-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Wild Chives – Friend or Foe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We’ve probably all had chives in our food at some time or another. \u00a0Usually locally grown or purchased, fresh cut or dried. \u00a0There are, however wild chives as well. \u00a0I’ve come across one small growth in one location only in my travels. \u00a0They were happily growing in \u00a0the alvars on high a sunny southern exposure, on a island in Georgian Bay, near San Souci. \u00a0That island shall be nameless for the time being, as there appears to be some confusion, maybe only mine, about the plant.<\/p>\n

While building up an image gallery of select shots of the island, which shall be nameless. \u00a0I came across a collection of shots of Wild Chives in artistic repose. \u00a0I thought it best to make sure I had the correct name, a little research revealed a bit of a contradiction.<\/p>\n

I’ll provide the links below for those who wish to follow my search, and perhaps some more knowledgeable individuals contact me to clear up the confusion. \u00a0In several government documents Wild Chives are included in the biodiversity of Georgian Bay. \u00a0One book excerpt, even indicates explorers of the Great Lakes region eating a species of chives, so they’re not new to the area as far as I can tell.<\/p>\n

Now the contradiction. \u00a0During the same search for Wild Chives I encountered a news letter from the Georgian Bay Land Trust. \u00a0In the news letter an outing \u00a0was chronicled were participants made considerable effort to remove Wild Chives, ostensibly as part of the GBLT’s efforts to “return the islands to their natural state”. The implication of this action is that Wild Chives are an invading species. Oddly I haven’t found anything to support their actions.<\/p>\n

I’d love to know what the story is.<\/p>\n\n\n

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