Whether in a city, a village or a hut somewhere, we can all gather, cook and serve wild food. There is nothing new about this, it is what we have always done. In listening to Robin Harford, the man behind the wildly popular EatWeeds and author of many foraging guidebooks, you begin to appreciate the difficulty in teaching something and wanting people to learn it themselves - for themselves. It is really through the personal, the sensory, the experiential, that we make the type of connection that lasts and that fosters empowerment of the individual. We are all, in the end, foragers. Whether we know it yet or not.

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In this chat, we discuss how you can start with just one plant on your journey of wild discovery, the role of technology in facilitating engagement, the sensory experience of knowing one another, plant blindness and what it says about presence...