Foraging — the practice of gathering plants, fruit and fungi — is gaining more widespread interest. But it's an age-old practice.
NEW PODCAST: Join KPBS under the neon glow of the historic Les Girls Theater for Stripper Energy: Fighting Back from the FringesS1: Welcome in San Diego , it's Jade Hindman. On today's show , we're talking about foraging , the act of searching the land for sources of food. And we'll talk about the history and the culture behind it. This is midday Edition , connecting our communities through conversation.
S1: This is true. It's a lot. Yeah , yeah. All the answers that you need are right at your fingertips. It seems you've actually bought a couple of things that you foraged here just this morning. What do you have. It's a big basket that you've got. And I see all sorts of colors and it's pretty fragrant too.
S2: Yes. I brought a couple of ropes. So , so cordage , which is making rope with plant fiber is fascinating because it's a very old technology that of course , we have no idea how old it is because it doesn't fossilize. So if you think back , you know , in the last 2 million years , our ancestors miniaturized their body hair. All of us still have hair follicles all over our bodies.
S2: Almost certainly , yes. And the first thing to avoid is if you know that people walk their dogs there , it's probably better not to collect anything that is from a height lower than a dog.S2: And another place to avoid is probably along really busy , um , freeways just because of all the pollution from the from traffic. Another problematic area is in in wetlands , if you had floods and sewage spills , that would be extremely dangerous to collect things that you then eat raw.
S4: You know , a nice one is a elderberry. You can use it in so many ways. So say , um , you know , my child's sick elderberry syrup , so I want to make some pancakes. I can use that syrup on there. It has antioxidants. Uh , I forget the other terms or the other things in it. I'm not a scientist , but what I do know is that this tree is the tree of music as well. So the branches are hollow. Cocoa Pele would use that tree and make flutes out of it.
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