Foraging (Rebroadcast)

Before there was home delivery, before there were supermarkets, before there was refrigeration, even before people cooked their food, people fed themselves and their families by foraging their landscape.  Collecting food, medicine, or provisions from our environment is perhaps the closest we can get to our food-source, and the places we live.  Much of the world continues a healthy relationship to their home though foraging, and even here in the US, foraging is having a re-emergence spurred by revivals of tradition and quests for self-sufficiency and connection to one’s landscape, even in urban environments.  

On this episode I head into the woods with my brother Pete, and connect with a few inspired foraging folks: Walter Collins and Tina Picz. 

This episode was produced by Stephen Abatiell

Special thanks to Walter Collins, Tina Picz, and the VT Foragers community for ID support and inspiration.  

To learn more, check out Vermont Foragers on Facebook and Tina Picz on Instagram at VermontFoodPhoto.  You can learn more about Vermont Releaf Collective at www.vtreleafcollective.org.  For a real treat, and this is highly recommended, check out Alexis Nikole Nelson Instagram or Facebook @blackforager. 

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Note: I find a lot of rejuvenation, and food, from foraging, and would like to see the practice available to more people.  If you are a landowner, please consider allowing people to access the land for hunting, fishing, foraging, and recreation.  If someone comes to your door to ask permission please be open to the conversation.  There are some important things in life that cannot be found in a grocery store or pharmacy. And if you don’t have a necessary reason, consider not posting your land.