00:00I've just entered my salad bowl you can just go for it
00:08at some point a dog has peed on this
00:18so no grocery stores no restaurants not even eating from gardens everything that i'm eating
00:24i have to find growing whether it's city parks abandoned lots or being out deeper in nature
00:34just in this little tiny patch there are four edible and medicinal foods
00:38we've got of course dandelion everybody knows dandelion we've got plantago which is another
00:45really great food and medicine and then just a little ways up here one of my personal favorites
00:52lamb's quarter similar to spinach this is growing in pretty much every major city across what we
00:58call the united states and a lot of the world as well oh we've got of course raspberries here you
01:03can make raspberry leaf tea from this do i eat complete meals absolutely subsisting of largely
01:10wild rice venison or fish and different herbs and spices and all sorts of different greens
01:16plus different berries some people call this a roadkill deer
01:22i call it a deer that's been hit by a car this is not a survival project for me this is about
01:28enjoying life and it's about thriving and it's about feeling great i've eaten over a hundred
01:33different foods from nature over the last month and by opening up my eyes i realized i had barely
01:40even tapped into what there is i definitely feel more present and more deeply connected to the earth
01:55for the last 10 years i've been rethinking our global industrial food system and all the ways
02:00in which it causes so much destruction and i want to eat in a way where i can find food growing
02:06that has no harm to the earth foraging can be legal or illegal depending on where you are
02:12yeah some days i'm out breaking the law but for me foraging is actually one of the ways in which i
02:19choose to purposely go against the system go against societal norms and say yeah i don't
02:25need these corporations to provide for me in a way that's destroying the earth
02:36most people they go to the grocery store and they buy their food and they just assume
02:40it's safe because it comes in a package or because it's got some great advertising
02:44the truth is is that a lot of that food there isn't safe
02:56right here is oxalis or wood sorrel and this is often one of the first plants that people try
03:04because it's got a real nice flavor it's a lemony flavor you can get oxalis blend it up into your
03:11salad dressing and have a nice lemony salad dressing what if everybody started foraging
03:16wouldn't we destroy nature overnight that couldn't be further from the truth if every human being
03:21wanted to start foraging and wanted to stop going to the grocery store you know what that would mean
03:27it would mean people are thinking about the world in a different way it would mean
03:31our broken societal structures would crumble and we would replace them with regenerative equitable
03:37just ways of living that are connected to the earth my recommendation for new foragers is to
03:42learn one plant at a time and if you just learn one plant a month for a year you'll know 12 plants
03:49now if you really want to go faster you could learn one plant per week for a year that's 52
03:54plants and you will go from a beginner to a plant wizard my goal is to break free from the grocery
04:01store and to maintain that largely for the next decades ahead the world needs more foragers and
04:09maybe that is you
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