How foraging reconnected Alexis Nikole Nelson with food and her culture

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🗓️ 5 October 2021

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Our colleagues at the TED Radio Hour introduce us to forager and TikTok influencer Alexis Nikole Nelson. She shares how the great outdoors has offered her both an endless array of food options and an outlet to reconnect with her food and her culture.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:04.8	Hey Shortwaveers, Emily Quang here.
0:07.6	With an episode that I loved so much from the Ted Radio hour, I had to share it with you.
0:13.1	It features Alexis Nicole Nelson, who has built a huge following on TikTok.
0:19.0	I mean, her account has over 2.5 million followers, and her posts are all about foraging.
0:25.9	Is in finding and eating all kinds of plants sourced from the great outdoors.
0:31.5	Anyone who can build hype around garden weeds is a friend of Shortwave, right?
0:35.9	Anyway, in this episode you'll hear Ted host Manouche Somerodi chatting with this famous
0:41.4	forager about how she started identifying plants and how the current practice both reminds
0:47.2	her of previous generations and is helping her reclaim outdoor spaces for black and
0:53.2	brown people for the future.
0:55.6	Alexis is so infectious, her enthusiasm for foraging so real, I think you're really going
1:00.6	to like this conversation.
1:02.0	All right, I'm going to turn it over to Manouche and Alexis right after the break.
1:08.1	It's the Ted Radio hour from NPR, I'm Manouche Somerodi.
1:11.7	Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God,
1:14.0	oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.
1:15.5	Today we are starting the show outside foraging for food.
1:19.2	I have been searching this whole city, and I finally found them.
1:23.0	Black, Locust trees and they're blooming.
1:25.9	This is Alexis Nicole Nelson.
1:28.4	And I am a forager.
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