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Alive or Undead? Wild Food
Foraging and the Fear of a
Zombie Apocalypse
Taylor Reid
Applied Food Studies
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Where to Forage
- Open fields are great for leafy greens.
- Deep woods tend to be best for mushrooms.
- Forest edges tend to have brambles, vines,
and large leafed plants.
- Avoid trespassing.
- Don’t harvest from anywhere that might have
been sprayed.
- Don’t harvest in areas where you are unsure
about the water source.
- Don’t harvest on the side of busy roads, no
matter how tempting they may be.
- Avoid vacant lots, and abandoned industrial
sites.
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When to Forage
- Spring and summer are usually
best for greens.
- Late summer and fall are best
for most mushrooms.
- Mushrooms are really dependent
on rain.
- Early spring and late fall tend to
be best for root crops.
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Ticks
Tuck your pants
Use tick spray
Check yourself after foraging
Shower with strong soap
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Harvest Responsibly
- Be careful not to overharvest
perennials that take many years to
come back. This is a particular
problem with ginseng, ramps,
chaga, and many other products
that can sell for a lot of money.
- As a rule of thumb, don’t take more
than 1/3rd of the plants growing in
any given patch in a single year.
- Try to spread seeds and spores
while you harvest.
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Equipment
- Knife
- Scissors
- Basket or Mesh Bag
- Jeweler's Loop
- Spore print paper
- Keys
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Fiber
- Wild plants
are often
high in fiber
- Many health
benefits
- Don’t get
stuck on the
toilet in a
world full of
zombies
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A Word About Bitter
- Saltiness, Sweetness,
Sourness, Bitterness.
- Important in many cultures.
- Stimulates peristalsis.
- Stimulates production of
stomach acid.
- You need to taste it to get
that effect.
- You get used to it.
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Carol’s Cookies
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=83ZYX5HucEo
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Acorns
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Gathering Acorns
September-October
Trees don’t produce well every year
Inspection is really important
Discoloration, enlarged bundles,
separated cups, attached caps,
small holes, are all bad signs.
Biting open a few.
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Drying and Shelling
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Leaching Tannins
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Be Safe
- Proper identification is vitally important.
Eating misidentified plants and fungi
causes illnesses and death every year.
- Don’t eat anything unless you are
absolutely sure.
- Avoid plants and mushrooms with
deadly look-alikes.
- Learn to use dichotomous keys.
- Participate in forays and workshops as
a beginner. Clockwise from upper left:
Roman Emperor Claudius,
Aminita phalloides, Holy
Roman Emperor Charles VI
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Poison Hemlock Wild Carrot
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False
Morel
Morel
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Health in the
Apocalypse
Prevention Before Treatment
Systems not Symptoms
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The 100 Yard Salad
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Bedstraw
Lady's bedstraw is used for treating
cancer, epilepsy, spasms, tumors,
loss of appetite, and chest and lung
ailments. It is also used as a diuretic
for relieving water retention,
especially swollen ankles.
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Ground Ivy (Creeping Charlie)
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Dandelion
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Garlic
Mustard
What does it
have in common
with zombies?
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Burdock
Seed Heads
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Ueong Jorim
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https://www.morp
hemeremedies.co
m/benefits-of-
burdock-for-skin-
hair-and-health/
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Stinging Nettle
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Plantain
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Lambsquarter
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Cattail
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Wild Grape
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Oxeye Daisy
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Mushrooms
- Don’t mess around
- Underutilized, but becoming more
popular
- Many have medicinal properties
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Maitake Mushroom (Hen of the Woods)
Grifola frondosa
- Antitumor effects
- Lowers cholesterol
- Lowers blood sugar
- Lowers blood pressure
- Immune booster
- Improves effectiveness
of anti-cancer
medications
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Lions Mane
- Protects and promotes healthy nerve
cells in the brain and nervous system,
and can treat nerve damage, anxiety,
and depression.
- Shown to have anti-inflammatory
antioxidant, and immune boosting
properties.
- Shown to lower risk or heart disease,
cancer, ulcer, and diabetes.
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Chanterelles
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Books
Mushroom Books
- Mushrooms of Northeastern North America (Bessette and Bessette)
- Mushrooms Demystified (David Arora)
- All the Rain Promises and More (David Arora)
- Field Guide to North American Mushrooms (Audubon)
Wild Plant Books
- Incredible Wild Edibles, Nature’s Garden, and The Forager’s Harvest (Samuel
Thayer)
- Botany in a Day (Thomas Elpel)
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Questions?
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Why do you think interest in foraging has suddenly
blossomed?
Why was it so unpopular for so long?
What has changed?
Is it coincidence that its rise in popularity has directly
tracked that of of the zombie genre?