Today’s Solutions: December 12, 2024

Foraging basket

Nature’s shopping list: a beginner’s guide to foraging

Two years ago, The Optimist Daily published a small piece on the advantages of foraging. This means walking past the grocery store to the park or a riparian area to search for, identify, and collect your own food resources. The practice has become more popular in recent years, especially during the Read More...

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Modern-day foragers want you to eat weeds for dinner

At a time where only four types of crops—wheat, maize, rice and potatoes—provide 60 percent of the average human’s diet, more and more people are becoming enthusiastic about foraging for unexpected sources of food. Foraging generally refers to searching, identifying and collecting food Read More...