Beginner Foraging Tips

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Alessandro grew up foraging plants in Italy. More recently, he took a foraging class and learned there are so many edible things in the natural spaces that surrounded him. There is free food everywhere, and knowing which ones to eat can expand and delight the palate. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3PXrkzc Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3Q0ZJgH Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3rDmkGz EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3EWHEdg Learn More: 25+ Plants That You Can Regrow From Your Kitchen Scraps Connect With Alessandro Vitale: Alessandro Vitale is also known as “Spicy Moustache”. Based in London, he’s been an Urban farmer for almost a decade and a content creator for the past 2 years. His channel focuses on gardening and maximizing the production of food in a small space. Other topics include foraging wild food, and how to use every part of your fruit and vegetables for a more sustainable life even in the middle of the city. Alessandro’s goal is to educate people not only to grow their own food, but also to reduce their impact on the environment. Instagram Website Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Why grow your own food when you can just walk outside into nature and harvest it from nature
0:10.0	itself?
0:11.0	AKA, why not learn how to forage?
0:13.4	I'll say this, for me, the only thing I've truly foraged would be prickly pear cactus
0:19.0	or nopal.
0:20.3	In my area, it's abundant, but I've seen what you've been up to, Alessandro, aka spicy
0:25.5	mustache back on the show.
0:27.5	You've got quite a bit of foraging experience and I'm kind of curious, like, did you get
0:32.1	into that at the same time as guarding, did you grow up doing that, or how did you start?
0:36.0	Well, I started in Italy, honestly, like with like a long, long time ago, 20, 25 years
0:43.8	ago, I lost count.
0:46.8	And yeah, like my grandpa used to take me like foraging for mushrooms and asparagus.
0:53.3	In Italy, we, North Italy, we have loads of forage asparagus and they are amazing.
0:57.7	We have a variety that it's, I don't know if it's like, if you can find around the world,
1:02.5	it's forage asparagus and they are absolutely amazing, like I remember having them with
1:09.9	like eggs when I was eating eggs, so asparagus, eggs, olive oil, pepper, salt, that's it, you
1:16.1	know, like just to get the proper flavor of like what you get from, from the land.
1:22.1	Yeah, the majority of the foraging that I did was here in UK, I'm not like an expert
1:30.4	that I'm way more knowledgeable people around, but I attended like courses, you know, that's
1:35.9	what I know was the most like the best thing to do, yeah, the most sensible thing to do.
1:43.2	So I went to a few courses here in London and literally like I was expecting like we walked
1:51.0	around five hours and I was dead after five hours, but yeah, we walked around and this
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