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New Zealand forager inspires lawmakers to ban herbicides

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , , , on November 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Thanks to my Twitter pal and New Zealand-based urban forager @HelenLehndorf for passing this inspiring TV news video along. Follow me on Twitter @UrbanForager. How inspiring is this?!? That’s one way to make “grassroots activism” meaningful!! Her work makes me think of this nonprofit in New Jersey called Common Cause, which advocates for government transparency, [...]

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Bittercress: Sidewalk Snapshot

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , on January 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »

If you’re interested in identifying this wild mustard, note the distinctive basal leaves — in other words, that the leaves grow out of the base of the plant rather than from a tall vertical stem — and the little pairs of opposite leaflets on each one.

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Mallow: Cheesewheels that taste like cheese!

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , on September 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Emily and I found these mallow flowers near a bike trail in the Sellwood neighborhood of Portland. The fruits of the mallow plant look like little cheesewheels and, in a fun burst of irony, really do taste like cheese! This isn’t the season to harvest roots, but if you did, you’d notice that Mallow root [...]

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