Short answer by me, after reading the article: Yes, but it’s a lot of work, and it only works if hardly anyone else is doing it.
Cue Kant’s Categorical Imperative here, or perhaps the Tragedy of the Commons. The few people interviewed may be able to feed themselves solely on foraging (although even they seem to “cheat” sometimes), but if all six million people in Wisconsin (the home state of one of the interviewees) tried to do it, they’d all either starve or kill each other.
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(John Hartley - a culinary patriot, cooking and eating in northwest England)
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The biggest impediment for me WRT foraging - there’s a lot of mustard and other greens near me, among other things - is that I can never be sure what may have been sprayed on them or nearby. I’m too much of a chicken to risk it.
ETA: Mrs. ricepad recently took a mushroom foraging class with a very well regarded mycologist (Alan something or other), and was really excited by what she learned. We don’t live in an area where a lot of edible mushrooms grow, though, so she can’t get a lot of field practice, nor does the dearth of foragable mushrooms raise my comfort level. I’ll stick to the bins at the grocery store!
