Ethan Welty On How Urban Foraging Could Change Cities Forever
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Imagine if city governments focused more on planting food-bearing plants than ornamental plants. Everyone can come together for urban foraging, making such plants essential for beautification and community building. Ethan Welty wants every person in the world to give more attention to these food-bearing plants, and this is his main purpose for co-founding Falling Fruit. Joining Corinna Bellizzi, he explains how he uses this online platform to promote fruit harvest in urban settings by mapping which cities you can forage food. Corinna and Ethan also share about the trees and plants they grew and harvested, as well as the process and benefits of guerilla gardening and grafting.
About Guest:
Ethan Welty is a postdoctoral researcher at the World Glacier Monitoring Service and University Of Zurich. He is the Co-Founder of Falling Fruit, a technology-focused 501(c)(3) non-profit organization mapping the world's edible plants. They have developed an online platform to promote urban foraging and local food.
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanwelty
Guest Website: https://fallingfruit.org
Show Notes: - used raw audio files
0:00 – Introduction
2:05 – Ethan's postdoctoral research
5:19 – Falling Fruit
12:14 – Food-bearing plants vs. ornamental plants
24:19 – Guerilla gardening and grafting
33:50 – Local food and community building
37:40 – Ethan's favorite fruit to harvest
40:19 – Walnuts and acorns
44:16 - Carbon sequestration
49:14 – Plan of action
54:04 – Advice on getting started with urban foraging
57:59 – Conclusion
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| 0:20.5 | Edible is a very fuzzy boundary. |
| 0:23.2 | And like, I mean, they use a great example. |
| 0:24.7 | It's mostly very poison except for this one little thing where if you eat like the little |
| 0:28.7 | sort of jelly around the seed, which is also extremely poisonous. |
| 0:32.5 | So, you know, it's like a tiny little piece that's edible. |
| 0:34.9 | And then there's lots of other things that might be edible if they're processed correctly. And that also usually means maybe re-unerthing some old knowledge |
| 0:42.5 | about how to do that or whether that means making it at least palatable and edible. |
| 0:48.6 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies |
| 0:55.9 | and everyday heroes. Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit |
| 1:02.0 | and personal gain. You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your dollars, and get |
| 1:06.8 | involved today. Here's your host, Karina Belizei. Hello, fellow do-goaters and friends. I'm |
| 1:14.7 | your host, Karina Belizzi, an activist and cause marketer who's passionate about social impact, |
| 1:20.3 | sustainability, and regeneration. As many of you know, I have worked to create a five-step |
| 1:25.8 | activist guide to help you unleash your |
| 1:28.0 | interactivist. All you have to do is visit my website, caremorebebetter.com, and join the email list. |
| 1:34.7 | As soon as you do so, you'll get an welcome email, including a link to download the guide. |
| 1:40.6 | Today, I'm finally going to get to dig a little bit deeper into two things we covered in our |
| 1:46.1 | regeneration series as we meet Ethan Welty. |
| 1:49.6 | Ethan is a postdoctoral researcher at the World Glacier Monitoring Service and University |
| 1:55.0 | of Zurich. |
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