Foraging For Food
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Many of you, original listeners, back in the day, may have remembered this challenge |
| 0:18.0 | I did called the apocalypse grow challenge where I was trying to live for 30 days off |
| 0:22.1 | of my garden, but I was also allowed to forage, fish, and barter, but I could only barter |
| 0:26.8 | if it was like a fair market trade, and turns out foraging made up a decent part of that |
| 0:32.0 | getting mulberries, getting low quads, getting whatever, really I could find out there |
| 0:37.6 | in San Diego's semi-urban environment. Roxana, I'm curious how you guys do it in Arkansas |
| 0:45.3 | with the family. |
| 0:48.3 | So we started just by getting field guides of plants, just regional plants, and we started |
| 0:53.6 | learning the plants themselves, and then I would get edible field guides to try to sort |
| 0:59.0 | of cross-reference, because sometimes you get a field guide and it doesn't tell you |
| 1:02.6 | if the plant is toxic or edible. |
| 1:07.4 | And so we just started by basically learning the plants on our farm that occurred, and |
| 1:14.0 | then when we would go on walks and nature hikes and stuff, and also mushrooms, we got |
| 1:18.6 | really, really into mushrooms. |
| 1:21.2 | There's a lot of woods and forests here, and tons of different kinds of mushrooms grow. |
| 1:26.2 | So we would get the books, we would all go out together, and at first we would just |
| 1:32.4 | take pictures of stuff, because I didn't want to harvest things if I didn't really know |
| 1:36.8 | what it was, if I wasn't sure. |
| 1:41.1 | And I was nervous at first, I was kind of nervous when we first started learning, because I |
| 1:45.0 | didn't want to eat anything that was going to hurt me or my family, obviously, I just |
| 1:49.2 | was very careful. |
| 1:52.5 | So that was it, we started learning the plants, and then I started getting less scared because |
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