Urban Foraging in Berlin: How to eat wild in the city

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In Berlin, urban forager Alexis Goertz (please tag https://www.instagram.com/ediblealchemy.co/?hl=en) shows how wild herbs, berries, and edible plants are hiding in plain sight. From fermentation to foraging, she’s part of a growing movement questioning our relationship to food, our environment and what makes a city truly livable.&maca=en-dp_video_dailymotion_en-32287-xml-mrsshd

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00:00Imagine not going to the supermarket, but it's the city that feeds you instead.

00:05I met someone who believes this is possible, Alexis Goertz.

00:08She took me for a walk through a Berlin park, showing me how she finds food where most people

00:13would never look.

00:14You're walking around and then you don't see just green stuff.

00:18You suddenly start seeing food, salad, tea, medicinal things, and you start connecting

00:25with your city in a new way.

00:27And then you have something that's even better than a hazelnut, in my opinion.

00:30Alexis is part of a growing movement of urban foragers.

00:34In 2012, she founded Edible Alchemy, a Berlin lab that teaches people how to identify and

00:39use wild foods.

00:40So here are the rowan ash berries, which often people think are quite poisonous.

00:45However, when you cook them or when you ferment them, the cyanide actually goes away and they

00:51become an edible, delicious delicacy.

00:53Feels niche to you?

00:55Across Germany, cities are rethinking their green spaces through the lens of the Esparerstadt,

01:00the edible city.

01:02The idea?

01:03Public parks that don't only look good, but also feed people.

01:07This movement digs into big questions.

01:09How to cut CO2 emissions, reduce dependence on industrial agriculture, and make cities like

01:15Berlin greener and more livable despite pollution and overdevelopment?

01:18The more you know, the more you see.

01:21And I hope to open people's eyes to what's growing around them in the city.

01:25Have you ever considered foraging in the city where you come from?

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