See https://forage.berkeley.edu
This project is investigating whether urban foraging can have a meaningful impact on nutrition in urban ecosystems as a source of fresh, free, nutritious foods, there for the picking. We are mapping the distribution of a variety of wild edibles in three east bay food deserts (in ...more ↓
See https://forage.berkeley.edu
This project is investigating whether urban foraging can have a meaningful impact on nutrition in urban ecosystems as a source of fresh, free, nutritious foods, there for the picking. We are mapping the distribution of a variety of wild edibles in three east bay food deserts (in Richmond, Berkeley, an Oakland) and testing soil and tissue samples for nutritional content and toxic contamination.
We have already found vast quantities of delicious fresh wild greens in study areas in Oakland, Richmond, and Berkeley classified as "urban food deserts." The most abundant species include cat's ear, chickweed, dandelion, dock, fennel, mallow, nasturtium, oxalis, plantago, sow thistle, wild lettuce, wild onion, and wild radish, but there are also many others.
Investigators: Philip B. Stark (www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark), Thomas J. Carlson (https://ib.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/carlsont), Eric L. Berlow (http://ericlberlow.net/), Kristen Rasmussen de Vasquez (http://www.rootedfood.com/about/)
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Berkeley Open Source Food
pbstark
created this project on February 24, 2014
