tae_glas 16 points 7 months ago

urban foraging is cool as hell! 🙌

bonus points if the seeds of edible plants are also being thrown into unused spaces in towns/cities, to allow more people to forage :D

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livligkinkajou 3 points 7 months ago

I tried that last year, but a month later the municipality mowed everything down to keep those monoculture grasses lol. I'll try to pot them for a while to let them grow and add some mowing protection this time

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tae_glas 3 points 7 months ago

eep, that's devastating! but fair play to you for keeping at it! 🙌

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Praxinoscope 7 points 7 months ago

Check out https://fallingfruit.org/

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livligkinkajou 2 points 7 months ago

Look at that! Great resource that I wasn't aware

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teft 6 points 7 months ago

As someone with a mango tree in front of his house, thank you. Mango trees make sooooooooooo many fruit. Certain times of the year i’ll have a literal row of fruit sitting on my stoop for people to take.

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protogen420 3 points 7 months ago

I can second your claim

my grandma's sister had a mango tree and an advocado tree, still go to her house to grab mangoes even though she has died a decade ago and the house is abandoned

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livligkinkajou 2 points 7 months ago

The weird thing is there is a store 50 meters from a mango tree that sells mangoes too. Most people prefer to buy those instead of just picking some from that tree, even though the tree is packed and easy to pick. Perhaps they just prefer the store's cultivar, which I would personally strongly disagree

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LibertyLizard 4 points 7 months ago

Definitely counts in my book! Since most people live in cities nowadays, it might be the most useful kind of foraging.

Jealous you live somewhere mangoes can just be picked up off the ground.

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livligkinkajou 2 points 7 months ago

Come and join me, there are too many mangoes. There used to be more, but most neighbours are ignorantly cutting down the trees due to sensationalist headlines saying they are the villain during storms :/

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LibertyLizard 2 points 7 months ago

Ugh such a waste! Happens here too with other trees.

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acockworkorange 2 points 6 months ago

Math is math meme

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pseudo 2 points 6 months ago

I almost exclusively do urban foraging.

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livligkinkajou 2 points 6 months ago

What did you get on your last haul?

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pseudo 2 points 6 months ago

Rose-hips. I didn't forage much since my last moving but I remember in autumn picking up pears from a single tree near my house. They went for underripe to extremely soft in just a few days and I didn't eat them only to learn afterward that it is normal for wild pear. What a disappointment!

In the city, you can forage tree leaves and also fruits. They are many essence we can eat that are not typically considered "fruit trees". But cherry, plum and haselnut tree are communs. Herbs, only in quiet place and only the head. That's the young leaves that are a only a few days old. I choose them in place when lawn are not mowed often so they are a not directly on the ground. And I park there is often different essences than the streets so you can find lots of fruit trees. Semi-build industrial area are also a great place to forrage. There is patches of countryside hidden inbetween ugly warehouse.

Neetles and blackberry are also available everywhere.

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