This is A Sustainable Mind, episode 34.

Don't think it's a far away or exotic thing or you have to be deep in the woods.

In fact, deep in the woods is the last place to look for food.

Look around you.

Look in your own civilized environment.

And you'll find these little organisms that are despised by so many but are actually full of nutrition and full of interest and full of good taste.

Welcome to A Sustainable Mind, where we delve into the minds behind today's most impactful environmental campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental changemakers

of tomorrow. I'm your host, Marjorie Alexander. Today, I am so excited to be speaking with

Mallory O'Donnell, writer of the blog How to Cook a Weed,

a fantastic resource for aspiring foragers and local foodies alike, showing you how to make the most

of rare, inexpensive, and wild ingredients. Mallory takes you on adventures in rural New Jersey,

sharing experiences with wild ingredients,

and recipes entirely concocted from items found in the backyard, garden, or on long walks around the neighborhood.

Mallory, welcome to the show.

I am so excited to have you on.

I've been checking out your blog for the last couple months, how to cook a weed. And it's so interesting.

How are you today? I'm great. Thank you. Thanks so much for reaching out to me. I really appreciate it.

Absolutely. So I want to start off getting to know a little bit about how nature, the environment,

and sustainability played a role in your home or your life growing up. Can you

tell us a bit about that? Yeah, sure thing. I think my folks were always fairly ecologically conscious

growing up. We were big early recyclers and in general those kind of ideas were floating around.

But my focus, I think early on was with. And it was, I think I turned to

...