Urban Foraging: The Antidote to This Cost of Living Crisis?

[@jimnyawd]

hello Ben, very nice videos overall. please continue like this and with more frequent videos. Greetings from Greece 😀

[@chelsgardening]

Hey Ben, I came across your chicken video today then watched the other 2. Love the video format so keep up the good work 👍

[@ben.strong]

Hey thanks for watching! I really appreciate the encouragement

[@Wonderland_Homestead]

SAME, glad to be here

[@siobhancapell]

The falling fruit site is fantastic. Thanks so much for the tip. I hope we can get more people onto it and more people planting edibles in public spaces (I've just added the little community garden that I planted in the park next door to my place.) I've only foraged for Lillipilly berries for making jam up until now, but I will definitely be looking more and trying to guerilla plant more edibles in public places.

[@ben.strong]

Hey no worries, thanks for watching! Yes I was thrilled when I stumbled upon it, it seems like a great open source tool. That’s also really cool that you’re trying to plant edibles in public spaces around you, I love this idea, and I’ll think about how i can too!

[@MosaicHomestead]

During the summer, you can pick up mangoes 🥭 everywhere around here off the floor 😂

[@siobhancapell]

@@MosaicHomestead are you on north Queensland or NT?

[@MosaicHomestead]

@@siobhancapell Puerto Rico 🇵🇷, 4 growing seasons here.

[@michaelcooney7687]

The green walnut add grappa and sugar and treat it as lemon for lemoncello except walnut flavour… leave for 1-2 years to mature .. magnificent aperitif’.

[@ben.strong]

Oh wow, great tip! I will definitely have to try that :) thanks for watching

[@marsvoltian]

@@ben.strong nocino if you're looking it up

[@mahjowee20]

Thanks for the foraging website. Great resource

[@ben.strong]

Welcome!

[@aanassazool]

you and your videos looks clean i mean literally

[@ben.strong]

thank you, I shower daily

[@newenergyawakening]

Would be good to take a couple of cuttings from that fig tree - the fruit looks amazing!

[@ben.strong]

agree! I have since planted a fig tree in my backyard, I'm running out of space to plant trees!

[@itslowtide4690]

Those figs look so good. I just can’t eat figs knowing a wasp crawls inside every single one and dies there, which ultimately allows the fig to become a fig.

[@ben.strong]

I know it’s crazy! But it certainly doesn’t stop me haha

[@itslowtide4690]

@@ben.strong My mom loves them. I don’t tell her about the wasp thing. Lol.

[@newenergyawakening]

most modern fig varieties make fruit without needing wasp pollination - so unless you get unlucky the fruit is bug free 😄

[@janeballinger2117]

how did you know the blackberries weren't sprayed? Thanks

[@ben.strong]

Hey thanks for watching! And good question. These bushes are close to my property and I monitor when and where the council have sprayed. It’s usually very obvious where they have in my experience as you can see the vegetation dying back.

[@MosaicHomestead]

I know because he replied to this comment 😂

[@MosaicHomestead]

I have a food forest, I can easily get over 100 pounds of food like nothing 😂, I got bananas 🍌, coconut 🥥, star fruit, bread fruit, custard fruit/ star apple, tropical almond, bread fruit, lime, grapefruit, hobo, annatto ,strawberry guava, acerola ect...I don't want to show off, but I also have a creek full of giant red tilapia 😂

[@ben.strong]

wow that sounds ideal!