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>> No. 1839 Anonymous
26th July 2011
Tuesday 4:06 pm
1839 Foraging
Went to Tesco's this weekend, all well and good but not exactly eco you may say
The branch local to me has dozens of blueberry bush's growing around the site and within half an hour I had filled 2 carrier bags full which have been processed into demi-johns, with the appropriate amount of sugar and yeast
Considering Tesco sell blueberry's for a pound a punnet I just grabbed around 20/30 quids worth of fruit
Any other tales of urban foraging?
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>> No. 1840 Anonymous
26th July 2011
Tuesday 4:31 pm
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On the cycle track near me there are loads of blackberry bushes along the side, it is very easy just to stop and get a decent snack from them.
I found that someone made a map of a load of the places which have edible plants in the city, but I can not seem to find it now.

Along with that had some nice elderflower cordial recently.

You can also encourage plants that can be foraged by planting wild berries and the like around, they can spread quite well as birds and animals eat them, then they get dispersed.
They also look very nice.
>> No. 1841 Anonymous
26th July 2011
Tuesday 4:59 pm
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I'm fairly well served by my local area for fruits. Just around the corner is a large house converted into offices, I have permission to collect damsons from the 4 large bushes in the car park
A 20 minute walk takes me to the grounds of an abandoned orchard
Next door but one neighbor has 2 fruiting cherry tree's
Blackberry's and rose hips are absolutely everywhere
It does help I live a 10 minute walk from open countryside.
And what do I do with natures healthy bounty - process it into an unhealthy quantity of wine hic

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