081 Foraging for Wild Foods With Leda Meredith
Root Simple Podcast
English - April 13, 2016 14:00 - ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsHobbies Leisure gardening chickens homesteading fermentation bread vegetable baking food preservation home Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Did you know that you can eat bark? Make a foam from the common mallow weed? Use dandelion as a hops substitute in beer? Our topic this week is foraging and our guest is Leda Meredith. Leda has a certificate in Ethnobotany from the New York Botanical Garden, where she is also an instructor. She […]
Did you know that you can eat bark? Make a foam from the common mallow weed? Use dandelion as a hops substitute in beer? Our topic this week is foraging and our guest is Leda Meredith. Leda has a certificate in Ethnobotany from the New York Botanical Garden, where she is also an instructor. She is also the author of five books including Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Beach Plums to Wineberries. Her new book is The Forager’s Feast: How to Identify, Gather, and Prepare Wild Edibles. During the podcast we discuss:
The ethics of foraging in city parks
Eating invasives
Is foraging sustainable?
Mallow foam
Vegan mallow mayonnaise
Dandelion beer
Foraging in Israel
Foraging in the winter
Eating bark
. . . and, of course, prickly pear
Leda’s website is ledameredith.com and her Youtube channel is here.
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