Urban foraging

Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
broke prepper

Re: Urban foraging

Post by broke prepper »

Duckie wrote:Off the top of my head and in close proximity:

FRUIT
Apples,
Blackberries,
Plums,
Rosehips,

TREES
Pine (needles for tea, nuts),
Oak (processed acorns),
Birch (inner bark),
Beech (young leaves, nuts),
Elder (berries, flowers),
Sycamore (sap),
Rowan (berries),

"WEEDS/HERBS"
Rosemary,
Nettles,
Dandelions,
Chickweed,
Sorrel,
Ramsons,
Spear thistles,

Also, not exactly foraging, but I'm near the Tyne and there are hundreds of urban bunnies, pigeons, ducks and other fauna.

It seems like a lot, but I'm not so sure it would be enough to survive off when you consider the quantities you'd need, factored in with how unsafe you'd be while out and about and which season you were in.

You forgot grey squirrels and seagulls just don't forage anything that swims in the Tyne there's still plenty of toxins in it
Beards-beat-guns
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Re: Urban foraging

Post by Beards-beat-guns »

poppypiesdad wrote:Mc Donalds , KFC, Pizza Hut and Chip shop all withing 5 miles

:)
Sounds about right for me too with the new addition of a harvester and nandos
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Mad Scientist
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Re: Urban foraging

Post by Mad Scientist »

Damsons, blackberry, raspberry, dandelions, comfrey, apples of all sorts, sloes, elder, good King Henry, Nettles, sweet cecily, tansy, hawthorn. Various greens, rowan.