Thanks for posting the interesting info about Koonti and Sofkee. I’ve never heard of either before.

I did get a bit of a chuckle over this.

“After research though, these dern things grow almost everywhere…I saw pictures of them as far north as Canada!”

Growing up in central Canada, they were one of those plants I just sort of assumed everyone knew about, though we called them bullrushes. They do seem to grow everywhere! You’ll find them in Alaska and Newfoundland, too.

Though we had plenty of them growing in the ponds on our farm (not to mention every ditch, creek, river, marsh and lake I ever saw!) it never occurred to us to us that they were edible! I was well into my teens before I heard some city slicker on a tv show talking about eating cattail roots. I thought it was the silliest thing – he couldn’t even get the name right! LOL

Now, however, I’m curious and would love to give it a try.