Permaculture Playing Cards: Wildcrafting
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On to today's featured permaculture tidbit!
Wildcrafting!
While food forests are largely man-made, I see Wildcrafting as a system using subtle influence of people. Maybe you find a stand of grapes that produce well and spread a few seeds to neighboring trees. Essentially you're helping spread a natural resource to influence the establishment of a natural food forest.
That's how Nate sees it anyways. I listened to a few episodes of Permaculture Voices Podcast with Diego Footer and they were specifically talking about wildcrafting with medicinal fungi if memory serves.
I'm not sure if there's separate ethics about native and invasive species inside wildcrafting, but I imagine there is. It seems a method where that would matter a lot.
Have you tried Wildcrafting and foraging? It's something that I'm interested I and haven't messed with yet, as I'm currently focused elsewhere within permaculture. Maybe this spring I'll start looking more into it. :)
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Nate.
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Wildcrafting is one of my favorite hobbies, and I'm only a beginner! The only things we've been foraging are mushrooms (which we've learned a ton about, at least in Colorado) and a few herbs. We found valerian and wormwood growing on our hiking paths, but herbs we've not learned as much about yet as I find their identification to be harder for me than mushrooms. Weirdly. In any case, it's an absolute joy, and a scavenger hunt, and a bonding experience, with your hiking partner, with nature, with self. Just beautiful.
My favorite card yet. Thanks nate!
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Ooh, prepare your brain, cause it's gonna be picked!
There's tons of grapes around and I'm sure plenty of other things besides the dandelions that I already eat. Mushrooms grow in plenty around here, being a mature neighborhood that is heavily wooded. I've only been able to identify stinkhorn yet, but there are plenty of others around.
Oh my brain is ready. I'd love to see some mushroom pics!
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Man, cursive sucks, I can't read that name on my phone at all. I will go with Jocelyn Campbell
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Hey, you're right!!! Share inbound.
I wonder if looking at a negative of the images would make the names any easier to spot?