A Floating Food Forest Prepares to Set Sail in New York City
Half public art project, half tourist destination, a floating food forest called Swale is set to launch along the New York City waterfront in June.
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Antifragile Food Systems
What is an antifragile food system? This becomes especially important as we enter an era of rapid climate change and civil disintegration.
The Edible Calendar
If summer and autumn supply most of the garden’s bounty, though, spring offers the best foraging, when The Girl and I rummage through the bog-country and return with bushels of foodstuffs, ready to be dried, pickled, frozen and made into wine for the coming year.
Whodunit? The foragers.
Archeologists have been, in my opinion, far too eager to brand cultures as farmers on flimsy evidence.
Three Weeds You Can Eat
When I’m out weeding, I’m foraging as well.
Crowd-funding the New Frontier: Radical Mycology
Here’s a chance to support a radical mycology project seeking to put a potent tool for restoration in many more hands.
How to Be an Urban Fruit Forager
In the 10 km radius of where I live I can source 80% of my favourite fruit, mostly for free, for a token sum, or in exchange for my own homegrown produce.
A 2 Pound Puffball and Other Autumn Fungi
Ultimately, if you are into mushrooms and enjoy hunting them and eating them, then educating yourself is the most important thing you can do.
Wild Food: Part 2
Many of the most famous wild foods have domestic equivalents, or have been widely cultivated for use.
Wild Food
All food was wild once, and all the vegetables in rows at the grocers were bred over centuries from what we now call weeds.
Eating on the wild side
The biggest drop in nutrients was probably 10,000 years ago, when we stopped eating wild foods and became farmers.
Hungry for change: Transitioning to local food supplies
The fact that globalisation has an impact on people’s lives in the UK is undeniable while the desirability and level of this impact is still very much up for debate. After spending the last few months in Totnes — a small yet increasingly well-known town in Devon, UK — I have spoken with many people seeking practical ways to connect to their local area so that they do not have to rely so heavily on sprawling global supply chains.