BlackForager - Yucca is one of those plants I’ve had a...

Ever since reading an obscure ethnobotanical reference about people pit-baking the terminal growing tip of a yucca trunk, I’ve had it on my to-do list. This year I finally got a chance to try. I used Great Plains or soapweed yucca (Yucca glauca). My friend helped me identify a good individual—one where the yucca rosette was sitting on an easily accessible above-ground hump of dry dead leaves. I sawed the rosette off with my hori-hori knife, and field dressed it, removing the spiky leaves to get