Global Ecovillage Network/Solution Library/Foraging wild edible plants

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Traditionally, in every place around the globe, people knew the local wild edible plants and their various uses. We can re-learn this tradition, get to know and forage our local wild edible plants!

Food security, water management, nutrition, food sovereignty

Traditionally, in every place around the globe, people knew the local wild edible plants and their various uses. This knowledge was derived from traditions, which were formed in a constant process of trial and error, and were passed on meticulously from generation to generation. We can choose to re-learn this tradition, get to know and forage our local wild edible plants!

Foraging ads diversity to our diet, is highly nutritional and accessible and is a source for food which is 100% local. You can eat the plants raw or make incredible meals out of them. Though some plants are generally known to all, there is so much more to be discovered. In the links below you will find guidelines for foraging in the Israel/Palestine region. However, you can search in your own language and surely find guides for edible plants in your region (and if there isn't one - make one!).

• Seeds, Food & Soil.
• Water Cycles.

• http://www.bayadaim.org.il/4ZH*
• http://www.bayadaim.org.il/3PY*