How To Forage For Mushrooms, Acorns, And Other Wild Foods With Alan Muskat
Is foraging legal? Is foraging bad for the environment? Is foraging innate or learned?
These are the top questions being asked on Google around foraging, a regulating activity that our ancestors depended on to sustain life. In a world where free and highly nutritious food surrounds us, how did these questions become the ones foremost on our mind?
Here today to answer our questions and go beyond the technicalities of foraging is Alan Muskat, the founder of the largest foraging education company in the world, No Taste Like Home.
While we do touch on things like how to forage for mushrooms, in thought-provoking episode Alan touches on the essence of foraging: feeling safe, feeling provided for, and feeling at home in the world. We discuss how artificial scarcity pushes us to pay for food rather than collect it for free ourselves, why societal boxes are deadly, and how cities and other urban spaces are actually some of the best places to practice foraging.
This episode is for anyone (regardless of where you live!) if you’re interested in tapping into more freedom when it comes to food, consuming better nutrition for free, being closer to nature, or simply cutting back on pesky grocery bills.
“That brings me to the essence of foraging is: it’s not to get stuff, it’s to appreciate what you already have. That’s what makes it not consumerist. It’s the trust that what I need is right around me, so I don’t need to hoard it and I don’t need to feel like I’m in scarcity or danger.” – Alan Muskat
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