Chef Shawn Adler encourages people to look at their natural surroundings differently. Even in urban environments, wild edibles flourish if you know where to look for them
, a collaboration with filmmakers Jesse McCracken and Samuel Larson. “ is a way that I can stay connected to my community and culture through doing something that people from my First Nation have always done,” he says.“My mom was always telling me stories, too. She went to residential school and said, ‘As kids we knew everything that we could eat around the school.
Even in urban environments, wild edibles flourish if you know where to look for them. In an episode of, Adler leaves his home in Southern Ontario’s Grey County to illustrate foraging opportunities in downtown Toronto. With restaurants in both places, “I’m floating in two different canoes. I’ve got one foot in the city, one foot in the country. I’ve got a great balance,” he says.
“Every spring you hear stories about wild leeks and fiddleheads especially, because these are two wild edibles that chefs really prize, and foragers are going out and over-foraging. Certain areas near big cities are really being depleted because people are completely decimating whole crowns of fiddlehead ferns, and they don’t come back,” says Adler. “Harvesting sustainably is really important so that you’re leaving something for future generations and for the animals.
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