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RE: Food Foraging 101: Why everyone should learn to forage
I've always been a casual forager - growing up camping and hiking - I always enjoyed the hunt for wild edibles.
More recently I've been doing some city foraging (AKA dumpster diving) - and had a lot of success this last summer. Incredible what people throw out.
My neighbour survived for 8 months strictly on city-foraged foods. It was quite a feat.
I fully know what people will throw out. Years ago, my mom lived in an apartment complex for seniors. She called one day and wanted me to hurry over to help her. In the dumpster behind the shopping center she could walk to, she found literally hundreds of bags of potato chips, unopened, but they had very recently expired. We got them and shared them with all the seniors that were having a hard time getting by. A week or so later, she ran into the delivery man from the company the chips were from. He was throwing away more chips. After watching him for weeks throwing them away on the same day of each week, we talked to him. He said the company made him throw them away each week because they were expired. We told him what we were doing with them. He said he could not give them to us, but he would leave them in boxes to make it easier for us. For almost 2 years, we helped feed all the seniors in that complex. Potato chips are good for MANY months after they expire. This was from one delivery man, on one route. Imagine how many are thrown away all around the world every week. How many people could we feed?