MOBILE, Alabama -- I’ve been bicycle foraging again, and have made out extremely well. After a foraging expedition as sweet as this one, it makes me wonder whether I should even bother to garden.

Butia capitata, commonly known as jelly palm, is a single-trunked palm tree with large, long leaves. The stiff leaves have a featherlike appearance with thorns along the edge of each leaf petiole.

I've been giving my favorite jelly palms the shake-down this summer, and don't for a minute think I'm going to share the location of any of them with you. Just be thankful I'm generous enough to tell ...