WILD things
As 2020 draws to a close, something feels hopeful. For the past 18 months I’ve had more people contacting me to ask about foraging than ever before. Their questions range from asking whether I still run workshops or know anyone who does, to whether there’s a local foraging group in their area, to whether I can identify a weed they’ve noticed in their neighbourhood, and is there anything useful about it?
Sometimes I don’t know the answers, but I’m always happy to get the questions. They affirm something important: that in times of trouble, many of us instinctively turn back to the natural world, knowing we need to rebuild our relationship with it.
The last time I saw such a resurgence of interest in foraging was around 2008. Al Gore’s had landed not long before as a gut punch for climatechange
