Comments on: A Year Of Urban Foraging

By: Pictures Of Things + Le Love List | Bonzai Aphrodite

Pictures Of Things + Le Love List | Bonzai Aphrodite — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 19:19:07 +0000

[...] and one afternoon Waits and I spent a few hours exploring our new neighborhood . . . and Urban Foraging of course. This was some deeeelicious lavender lemonade that we made from foraged fruits and [...]

By: Jessica Minguez

Jessica Minguez — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:01:00 +0000

Meyer lemons really are one of my favorite scents and flavors. I miss a lot of that Southern California foraging! We have some berry patches around here in Alaska, but it’s slim pickins in this climate. :)

By: B M

B M — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 01:51:00 +0000

Wow this is amazing! How wonderful to be surrounded by such an abundance of delicious plants! The only thing I have been able to forage here in CO mountains easily is mint and wild raspberries (omg, so good). And though it is not edible, I love pine sap and it smells incredible.

By: katta

katta — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 08:22:00 +0000

We take the lane ways when we walk around home too (Melbourne, Australia) – we have a giant mulberry tree the small kiddo loves more than life, an avocado tree that requires standing on shoulders (but man they’re worth it!), figs, apples and grapes all within two blocks. Its amazing what you can find! This winter the kids would forage greens on the way home from school (chickweed, dandelions etc) from the park and make smoothies or bliss balls with them as their snack! Its awesome seeing their eyes open to the potential around them in an urban area!

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:49:00 +0000

Haha, oh man, yeah it’s not really a year-round activity everywhere. But I bet Mass has some amazing foraging from late spring through fall. Apples, right??

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:47:00 +0000

Aww you got scooped! And that’s bad form, one should never take all of what they’re foraging. You always leave some for the next person! That’s just manners. ;-)

And I am super jealous of your elderberry, that is RAD! I have always wanted to make elderberry syrup. Such great magickal and medicinal properties with that berry. Have so much fun with it!

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:46:00 +0000

That’s so cool! Like 5 or 6 (maybe more? oi . . . ) year ago I wanted to develop a mobile app that would let people post alerts on maps whenever they found a good foraging spot, and then other people could log in to see what’s in their area. Cool that there’s a website doing something similar!

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:45:00 +0000

Awesome, thanks Lacy! And man, Portland has some seriously amazing foraging. I used to go all over the southeast! Berries berries everywhere!!!

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:44:00 +0000

Oh I bet there’s all kinds of cool stuff around where you live! It’s really just a matter of training yourself to look for it. Free food is everywhere! Can’t wait to hear what you and P find. =)

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:22:00 +0000

I was jealously looking at your bounty when I realized that there is a website for urban foraging (fallingfruit.org)! I’m going to try this in my area.