Comments on: Free food, wild foraging, edible weeds and urban homesteading: some good reads https://ourpermaculturelife.com/free-food-wild-foraging-edible-weeds-and-urban-homesteading-some-good-reads/ Dive into a vast collection of free permaculture resources to help you get your permaculture life and edible gardens thriving with global permaculture educator & ambassador, Morag Gamble. Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:54:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Anonymous https://ourpermaculturelife.com/free-food-wild-foraging-edible-weeds-and-urban-homesteading-some-good-reads/#comment-1334 Wed, 10 Feb 2016 14:08:44 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/02/09/free-food-wild-foraging-edible-weeds-and-urban-homesteading-some-good-reads/#comment-1334 I live in an outer eastern suburb of Melbourne and have a lovely unsprayed blackberry patch half a kilometer up the road. I have probably picked over 20kg of blackberries and turned them into jam and cordial as well as a few for eating. Based on a well known supermarkets per kilo price of $31.20 I have foraged over $600 of organic, fresh, local, sweet & tasty fruit.
I have prepared labels for the jam that say it is foraged fruit.

I have yet to persuade myself to eat foraged weeds despite reading the weed book by Adam (who I know)
Claire

]]> By: Morag Gamble https://ourpermaculturelife.com/free-food-wild-foraging-edible-weeds-and-urban-homesteading-some-good-reads/#comment-1332 Wed, 10 Feb 2016 04:10:45 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/02/09/free-food-wild-foraging-edible-weeds-and-urban-homesteading-some-good-reads/#comment-1332 Blackberries – mmmm! Luck you! I grew up in that area of Melbourne and remember being so disappointed at not being able to harvest the berries because of the sprays.

]]> By: Morag Gamble https://ourpermaculturelife.com/free-food-wild-foraging-edible-weeds-and-urban-homesteading-some-good-reads/#comment-1333 Wed, 10 Feb 2016 03:12:39 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/02/09/free-food-wild-foraging-edible-weeds-and-urban-homesteading-some-good-reads/#comment-1333 What great childhood memories. I have also heard of the wild foraging group but don't have their contact – will ask around and let you know.

]]> By: Meg Hopeful https://ourpermaculturelife.com/free-food-wild-foraging-edible-weeds-and-urban-homesteading-some-good-reads/#comment-1335 Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:38:51 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/02/09/free-food-wild-foraging-edible-weeds-and-urban-homesteading-some-good-reads/#comment-1335 I hadn't heard of the Rurbanite book, Morag. I hope my library has a copy!

]]> By: Australian Gardening Granny https://ourpermaculturelife.com/free-food-wild-foraging-edible-weeds-and-urban-homesteading-some-good-reads/#comment-1337 Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:38:51 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/02/09/free-food-wild-foraging-edible-weeds-and-urban-homesteading-some-good-reads/#comment-1337 Back in the UK as a girl we went "blackberrying" each autumn and made delicious blackberry and apple jam, and pies. Even as a child I got excited about free food. My mother used to forage wild stuff to make wine. Nettles, elderflower, you name it. Blew your head off judging by the giggling going on amongst my aunties once they had a glass.

I would love to go wild foraging in Brisbane but need to know where to start. I thought there was a wild foraging group in West End one time. Do you know of anybody in Brisbane who runs this sort of thing?

]]>