Submitted by Ria Del Montana (not verified) on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 10:11
I honestly don't know much about it because my foodway is mainly an urban decomposer. I do forage a bit, but there is soooo much civilization food waste here it's very easy to thrive. I also collect and hone knowledge and skills on foraging practices that assist and don't degrade forest health, but perhaps that's a luxury because I'm so well fed I don't have to focus on survival. I've considered writing a booklet on restoration ecology foraging, but when it comes down to it, I don't trust humans enough with this information, and I'm really just beginning to learn it.
If I were in your shoes, I think I'd study up big time on foraging like earliest humans, but I almost hesitate with that too. For example Cascara was once prevalent in my region, until humans moved in and began foraging the bark. And I've been to foraging trainings with very skilled people who are totally unaware of the ways some of the skills they spread about are harmful to the habitat. So that's really important to keep in mind.
But with that in mind, if I were in your shoes, I'd study both restoration ecology for your local area, human interactions that help & hurt, and foraging a wide variety - plant fruits, nuts, seeds, buds, flowers, leaves, stalks, stolons, rhizomes & roots, mushrooms, fern fiddleheads moss, lichen, bark and anything else that's outside today's mainstream foraging list. And you'd likely need to cache some away for late winter/early spring. What's your bioregion?
Sorry I ignored your posts, that was not my intention. Feel free to contact me through my blog.
I honestly don't know much about it because my foodway is mainly an urban decomposer. I do forage a bit, but there is soooo much civilization food waste here it's very easy to thrive. I also collect and hone knowledge and skills on foraging practices that assist and don't degrade forest health, but perhaps that's a luxury because I'm so well fed I don't have to focus on survival. I've considered writing a booklet on restoration ecology foraging, but when it comes down to it, I don't trust humans enough with this information, and I'm really just beginning to learn it.
If I were in your shoes, I think I'd study up big time on foraging like earliest humans, but I almost hesitate with that too. For example Cascara was once prevalent in my region, until humans moved in and began foraging the bark. And I've been to foraging trainings with very skilled people who are totally unaware of the ways some of the skills they spread about are harmful to the habitat. So that's really important to keep in mind.
But with that in mind, if I were in your shoes, I'd study both restoration ecology for your local area, human interactions that help & hurt, and foraging a wide variety - plant fruits, nuts, seeds, buds, flowers, leaves, stalks, stolons, rhizomes & roots, mushrooms, fern fiddleheads moss, lichen, bark and anything else that's outside today's mainstream foraging list. And you'd likely need to cache some away for late winter/early spring. What's your bioregion?
Sorry I ignored your posts, that was not my intention. Feel free to contact me through my blog.