The Kind of Local Food Movement that Eats Nettles and Ant Eggs?

Urban foraging isn't quite as well known as urban farming, but it certainly counts as local food. David Craft is one such urban forager, who is profiled in the Boston Globe, explaining that half of his diet comes from foraged foods. He eats a lot of wild plants, helping local food growers by clearing weeds that are good for eating. A journalist recently tried a similar thing, managing to subsist of foraged food for only five days — eating nettles, ant eggs, wild carrots — before given up. Foraging isn't all that easy, it seems.

Jonathan Bloom writes about Wasted Food extensively on his blog, Wasted Food covering everything from the international provision of doggy bags to news that the National Restaurant Association (the good NRA) plans to get more serious about food donation. Good news considering that this is Food Action Month and that any sustainable food infrastructure must consider not just what we eat, but where the excess is, where the waste is, and where we're quite simply being too greedy.

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