On foraging

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The act of foraging and eating non-domesticated plants is no longer retained to the fine dining experience, but has become a common activity recently. Is it because our bodies doesn’t forget ? Or simply as the writer and environmentalist Aldo Leopold states: “There is a value in any experience that reminds us of our dependency on the soil-plant-animal-human food chain, and of the fundamental organization of the biota.

Through the autonomous act of gathering a wild plant, we find ourselves in a different perspective; a conceit of taking part of an independent eco-system, rather than relying on one formed and controlled by human

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