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Field guide FORAGING WILD FOOD

“We want to empower ourselves with the knowledge and skills that bring self-reliance and equip us to care for our families”

Engaging with wild food sources is reconnecting with the old stories of our ancestors and finding a sustainable way to interact with and learn from your surroundings.

Foraging, or at least the idea of harvesting wild food from the land, is now in the mainstream. In the face of the interconnected challenges we’re confronting, we want to empower ourselves with the knowledge and skills that bring self-reliance and equip us to care for our families and communities. We now feel the urgency, and have the opportunity, to create new narratives and move towards coexistence based on shared values of compassion and understanding for all species.

FULL CIRCLE

Agriculture may have existed for more than 10,000 years, but we have only fully adopted a reliance on cultivated produce in the past 100 years, with the advent of industrial agriculture and subsequent monopolisation of distribution.

Three generations ago

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