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Richbee's avatar

Best bet before foraging take a wild foods class often offered at community colleges. Learn from someone who has knowledge. Take you to places less traveled. I did this for two seasons. Spring and fall. Plants change in seasons. Flowers drop. Leaves brown, roots grow deeper in fall to harvest.as a landscaper for over fifty years and s nursery sales person for twenty five, I know not every thing is in books. You need to feel, touch , the experience is worth your time even to be stung by nettle and reap the benefits once used for flagellation and arthritis prevention. An aside, for free you can look up my experiences in a book I published in 2019 with photos. “One green thumb and nine sticky fingers “ all true tale with a few caveats too as foraging is not for sissies.

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This is wonderful! Thank you for sharing this. I survived on foraging alone for around three months, and yes you have to be careful not to eat anything that is poisonous, nor accidentally misconstrue flora and fauna for another non lethal plant that may look incredibly similar.

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