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 Plus it's free! Plus it's free!
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 +_A personal foraging calendar is built piece by piece, as you encounter wild foods in your landscape. They take information floating around in books and on the internet and ground-truth them in your landscape._
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 - Be aware of where you're treading - be careful of damaging other plants as you reach for the juiciest blackberries! Try to damage the plant you're picking from as little as possible. - Be aware of where you're treading - be careful of damaging other plants as you reach for the juiciest blackberries! Try to damage the plant you're picking from as little as possible.
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 +There is a philosophical or spiritual angle to foraging, if you would find it useful. [Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.robinwallkimmerer.com/) is a professor of ecology and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. In her book //Braiding Sweetgrass//, she brings up the idea of asking plants for consent: is that blackberry within reach? Does that elderberry cluster overhang a deep river? If you cannot access the forage without trouble (climbing, injuring yourself), the plants are not consenting. Using the concept of plant consent keeps you safe and prevents overharvesting.
  
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 Here are some examples of community management of wild food resources: Here are some examples of community management of wild food resources:
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 ### Example 1: The cultivated landscapes of Turtle Island ### Example 1: The cultivated landscapes of Turtle Island
  
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 ### Example 2: Online knowledge sharing with fallingfruit.org ### Example 2: Online knowledge sharing with fallingfruit.org
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 I would encourage every private landowner reading this to put their food resources up on fallingfruit.org, to provide permission to their community to walk on their land and pick some of its bounty. I would encourage every private landowner reading this to put their food resources up on fallingfruit.org, to provide permission to their community to walk on their land and pick some of its bounty.
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 Moreover, the mature forest provides essential goods to the communities, disincentivising logging (Brown, 2001). The survival of the community and their forest are inextricably linked, enough to cultivate a feeling of //florestania//, or “forestizenship” (Barca, 2024). This is the kind of deep connection that is enabled by a foraging relationship, and ultimately protects the forest.  Moreover, the mature forest provides essential goods to the communities, disincentivising logging (Brown, 2001). The survival of the community and their forest are inextricably linked, enough to cultivate a feeling of //florestania//, or “forestizenship” (Barca, 2024). This is the kind of deep connection that is enabled by a foraging relationship, and ultimately protects the forest. 
  
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   - Brown, I. F. (2001). Extractive Preserves and Participatory Research in as Factors in the Biogeochemistry of the Amazon Basin, in McClain, M. E., //The Biogeochemistry of the Amazon Basin//. Oxford University Press.   - Brown, I. F. (2001). Extractive Preserves and Participatory Research in as Factors in the Biogeochemistry of the Amazon Basin, in McClain, M. E., //The Biogeochemistry of the Amazon Basin//. Oxford University Press.
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 +  - Kimmerer, R. W. (2013). //Braiding Sweetgrass//. Milkweed Editions.
  
   - Pinzón Rueda, R., & Ruiz Murrieta, J. (1995). //Extractive Reserves//. IUCN - World Conservation Union.   - Pinzón Rueda, R., & Ruiz Murrieta, J. (1995). //Extractive Reserves//. IUCN - World Conservation Union.
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