Urban Foraging

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• Podcasts

  • Eatweeds Podcast For People Who Love Plants The Forager's Guide to the Wild Edible Plants of Britain. Click play_circle_filled to listen to an episodecancelplay_circle_filled

    EP39: What's That Plant - Eatweeds Podcast: For People Who Love Plants

    Mark Duffell is one of Britain's foremost botanists and ecologists. We discuss... The best way for beginners to learn plant identification. Why the ecology of a plant is important to know before harvesting. Forager or pillager? Which one are you? How to overcome your fear of botany and science jargon. Why learning plant families is important. Sustainability and commercial wild food harvesting. Is there a problem? How ecology can guide us to live harmoniously with the Earth. Full show notes at eatweeds.co.uk/ep39

    1. EP39: What's That Plant 01:02:24
    2. EP38: Let's Talk Trespass 01:03:38

• Articles

  • National Geographic How urban foraging became the new way to explore a city Can’t travel far? Then travel deep to find nourishment in your everyday surroundings. cancel
  • Mashable A beginner's guide to urban foraging It's time to rethink the way you interact with the (surprisingly edible) species that make up your urban landscape. cancel
  • An Off Grid Life Five Ways to Start Urban Foraging Today There is an abundance of edible greenery in every city, no matter where you live. Here are some easy ways to start urban foraging in your city today. cancel
  • KUOW Public Radio Tips and tricks for safe urban foraging It’s berry-picking season in the Northwest. Blackberry bushes everywhere are loaded with fruit. This prompted listener Colin Peterson to send us this question: “We love picking the blackberries in our neighborhood this time of year. And I was wondering about soil contamination and what impact that may or may not have on the berries we pick.” cancel
  • Discover Magazine Looking For a New Hobby? Urban Foraging Is Making a Comeback Your city may hold a buffet of edible vegetation — with wild mushrooms, berries, nuts and more. Here are a few tips to get you started on your hunt for plants you can eat. cancel
  • Four Season Foraging Urban Foraging Some people are surprised to learn how much can be foraged in urban areas. Berries and fruits, nuts, greens, and mushrooms often abound in cities. Below are recommendations on where to find urban foraging sites and how to avoid contamination. Some of this information is specific to the Twin Cities area, but the general principles can be applied anywhere. cancel
  • Bloomberg CityLab The City Has Food to Share. Do You Know Where to Find It? A New York-based design duo proposes a “forage beacon” that makes it clear when food—like fruit, nuts, and vegetables—is ripe and safe to eat in the city. cancel
  • Kitchen Stories A Beginner’s Guide to (Urban) Foraging A derelict 19th century factory, the no man’s land between two busy streets, and a public park would most certainly not be the among the first, second, or even third locations that I’d visit for a quick and healthy bite. However, all these sites offer an abundant supply of healthy and free bites—provided that you know where and exactly what to look for. Foraging is not exactly a new thing. I remember days spent with my parents, foraging for mushrooms and wild berries in the forests. But it never occurred to me to actually forage in the city. It never came across my mind that urban foraging is actually a thing. However, since the rise of New Nordic Cuisine—which took foraging to new and often mocked heights—I have learned that there are numerous edible plants in urban landscapes, which are often dismissed as worthless weeds. However, most people remain wary about literally finding their food on the streets. What if the plants are polluted? How can I be sure I’m not confusing it with a different, poisonous plant? Most doubts and objections can be easily assuaged with some good old education. Since springtime is by far the best time to enjoy nature's many gifts and a casual stroll through your neighborhood, we have compiled a handy little guide on urban foraging. cancel
  • Brooklyn Based Urban foraging: A path to finding nature I’m standing in a circle right inside Prospect Park with six other women, my eyes are closed, and I’m feeling my electromagnetic connection to the nature around me. It’s a Friday and this is not how I usually start my day. This morning I’m on a “Healing Plant Walk” through the park with Liz Neves, herbalist and founder of Gathering Ground. cancel

• Essentials

  • Falling Fruit Map the urban harvest! Our global map of edible plants is not the first of its kind, but it aspires to be the world's most comprehensive. While our users contribute locations of their own, we comb the internet for pre-existing knowledge, seeking to unite the efforts of foragers, foresters, and freegans everywhere. cancel
    
  • PlantNet Plant Identification PlantNet is an application that allows you to identify plants simply by photographing them with your smartphone. Very useful when you don't have a botanist on hand! [email protected] is also a great citizen science project: all the plants you photograph are collected and analyzed by scientists around the world to better understand the evolution of plant biodiversity and to better preserve it. cancel
    
  • PictureThis Identify plants by photo Identifying plants has got easier than ever with PictureThis! Simply take or upload a photo of any plant, and get instantaneous and accurate plant ID results with our revolutionary artificial intelligence technology. From watering frequency to pest and disease control, from literature to fun fact, everything you want to know about the plant is here in PictureThis. cancel
    
  • Samuel Thayer The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants Rather than cover hundreds of plants in abbreviated accounts like the typical field guide, the author has chosen a smaller selection of species to discuss in exhaustive detail, including only those plants he has eaten fifty times or more. This book contains as many as ten high-quality color photographs of each plant. These have been selected to facilitate the identification and depict the plant parts at exactly the stage of growth in which they should be harvested. The accompanying text is accurate and thorough, giving readers of any experience level the confidence to harvest wild plants for food. Botanically, the text is accurate, yet it remains accessible to the layperson by using technical terms only when necessary. cancel

• Near You

  • Meetup Foraging groups Find over 78 Foraging groups with 48570 members near you and meet people in your local community who share your interests. cancel