Foraging - can food just grow?: Kevin Feinstein at TEDxConstitutionDrive

[@teresalynne2326]

Very informative conversation. Thank you.

[@natureisallpowerful]

You know I've been a forager and mushroom enthusiast (some call it a mycologist)Imoat of my life, but really deeply in the last 5 years and I'm still learning every day. Habitats,sustainability, relationships of the plants,flowers,fruits and fungi us mind blowing. It's all connected and I'll never know everything, which I accept. Get out there people, I'm not a professional, I dont need to be, im self taught.

[@duffymeadows5110]

Good stuff. We can feed more people with foraging IF we plant more food giving TREES. Most wild greens are good but provide almost no calories. Roots, tubers, nuts, wild rice, and fruit are the most calorie dense.

[@roscly83]

So, I love this concept... You get really healthy while losing weight. What more could I ask for?

[@somaalchemy1154]

But it's nutrient dense, you get more bang for your buck.

[@DylanBegazo]

Permaculture Food Forests for all.

[@ameliab7245]

I have bought stinging nettle tea and loved it. I have at least one plant in my yard, but don't know how to handle it for making tea. Does a person just wear gloves and pick off the leaves? Dry the leaves? I've read you can also boil the plant and eat as a vegetable. Stems and all? Was interesting to hear if I cut it, it will branch out and propagate. Been wanting it to do that.

[@SapioiT]

And not only that, but with a bit of soap or oil and a blender, one can even make natural biodegradable shampoo. The internet is full of videos and text about how even the most absurd-sounding things can actually be done, and in many cases quite easily and cheaply.

[@haydehabdolahian7691]

Amelia B , I have lots lots mint in my flower beds , every day i pick hand full of that even with steam and wash it , put it in tea pot with like 5 or more cup water and boil it for 5 minutes and drink it all through day ,

[@frithar]

Amelia, I cut the tops of the nettles with scissors and let them drop directly into a bowl underneath. I've done it for so long and worked with nettles for so long that now I just pick them with my finger sometimes too. The sting goes away. I put my nettles raw in smoothies with orange juice and bananas, or I make a hot tea out of them, or I dry them and then powder them in my blender for winter use. Fantastic for allergies

[@natureisallpowerful]

Yes fellow foragers

[@reptilez]

Awesome stuff. Thank you so much

[@jeffborders5526]

"the rare and elusive matsutake that only grows in the wilderness." Not quite. Those pine mushrooms grow in my front yard.

[@stupidman9774]

there they go folks, monsantos at work on the wilds now, WOW.

[@haydehabdolahian7691]

You are so right ! People plan beautiful garden full of vegetable , healthy lots of it and they don’t use it ☹️make me so sad to see every thing go to waste all over ground and people like me pay so much money to buy organic vegetable every week 😢

[@brigittelm6054]

Corporatioms and mono culture is the destructive force not humans in general.

[@skillgamesfun]

Brigitte L

[@voidvector]

He never addressed the capacity issue - as he mentioned himself, foraging worldwide can only feed a 10-100 million people.

[@henrikkarl25]

what a load of bs..

[@voidvector]

@@henrikkarl25 Timestamp for you - 6:10

[@kenbrown438]

I DON'T think this will work for everyone on the planet !!!!

[@kenbrown438]

@@henrikkarl25 : I think you are CORRECT, sir !!!!

[@voidvector]

In ecology, there is something called "carrying capacity," which is the amount of population of specific species that local ecosystem is able to support. Anywhere near major cities, even if 1% of the population forages, it will outstrip the carrying capacity of the local ecosystem. (i.e. destroying it) If you live somewhere remote like Alaska, or Sahara desert, forage all you want.

[@brandonmusser3119]

Sounds like you're in Florida you guys got to start canning that stuff

[@emmelawrence]

I am a big fan of permaculture & foraging, but there are some big downsides to some of the plants & weeds he mentions - oxalates, phytates, lectins, & other plant toxins & pesticides that enable them to fend off pests(including us) better than their domesticated counterparts can. One of the biggest differences in wild vs. domesticated species that needs lots of synthetic pesticides to deter pests is that we have selected for less toxic variants in the latter group. So it is a tradeoff. The same compounds that keep bugs and animals away often kill us(albeit slowly) too. Oxalates can cause acute poisoning, yes, but can also cause slow, insidious health problems that develop over a lifetime. Please, everyone, read up on some of these things before relying heavily on greens, nuts, legumes, or grains for your nutrition.

[@DylanBegazo]

Grow Aronia for it's antioxident berries

[@brigittelm6054]

Corporations 😉

[@TellaTokyo]

Would it be enough to feed the whole world tho, only by foraging?

[@SapioiT]

Yeah. Though one would need to go from 10-meters-wide combines to 20meters wide and even 1-meter-wide combines, and have different combine attachments for different pluricultures (opposite of monocultures) of foraged plants, and to re-introduce grazing, whether by poultry (chicken, ducks, turkeys, etc.) or by sheep and goats (each of whom provides milk and wool), or by pigs, or by rabbits, or by other small herbivore animals, but one would also need mobile walls to keep the grazing animals confined to certain spaces, for planed cyclical grazing (as proven practically by Allan Savory, who turned a patch of desert into a forest with it).

[@sixshootinparker3823]

Leave some for the global-warming threatened and vulnerable birds and critters also.

[@EmilyPorter]

All the rotten veggies. That's cute. I like that.

[@brigittelm6054]

Permit to eat nature?

[@SapioiT]

I know, right? That's absolutely insane! But then again, city parks could be harvested bare, so it would be understandable to not allow people to go home with parts of the park, if the park is non-renewable.

[@frithar]

We need to eat all the food out there before we start growing more? Ummmm...doesn't sound like the best plan, fren.