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URBAN FORAGING
GUIDE
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URBAN FORAGING...
This pocket guide contains pictures of around 20
species with edible parts, and I have also listed
some other useful ones at the very back. About
50 species are covered in total.
In urban environments you will almost certainly
come across some more exotic species (mostly
from abroad) which are grown as ornamental
plants in city gardens - at least where there's
space to have a garden in a metropolis. Some of
these 'exotics', too, provide you with something
to eat or new flavours and textures.
There are many others species which I have not
included because using some of them can be
fraught with troubles, and there isn't space in a
small guide like this to go into detail. That sort of
stuff I do in courses where there's more
explanatory space and time.
However, the plants listed here should stand the
urban forager in good stead. In fact if you know
your dandelions, nettles, chickweed and thistles
you can actually survive on those. Additional
species just make life more interesting, and
provide you with fallbacks when things are a bit
thin on the ground.
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