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Take a Walk on the Wild (Edibles) Side
In this episode, produced by University of California's Global Food Initiative, Mark Bittman goes on a foraging excursion through the streets of Oakland with UC Berkeley researchers Philip Stark and Tom Carlson. They're regulars to urban foraging and want to increase awareness about wild edibles. Mark also visits Bob Cannard, a farmer who cultivates edible weeds for restaurants like Chez Panisse in Berkeley.
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"We'd like to see public policy changed to make it legal to forage non-native, invasive species on public lands. Instead of spraying herbicides on "weeds" (and suffering the ecological consequences) we can eat the aliens!"
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