Quotes About Foraging

Nearly twenty years ago, I met John Kallas, who I regard as the top wild-food man of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.

Foraging Oregon covers plants that can be used primarily for food and are common in Oregon

Our focus is on those wild foods that are widespread, easily recognizable and identifiable, and sufficient to create meals.

In nature, fruit is available mainly in the fall. Wild animals such as bears eat fruit in the fall in order to build up their fat.

for more than ninety-nine percent of human existence, we all lived like Onwas, in small bands of nomadic hunter-gatherers. Though the groups may have been tight-knit and communal, nearly everyone, anthropologists conjecture, spent significant parts of their lives surrounded by quiet, either alone or with a few others, foraging for edible plants and stalking prey in the wild. This is who we truly are.

honey-hunting bees.

Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.