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Foraging

Eat your Landscape

I’ll never forget when I first moved to Austin and noticed our abundance of loquat trees—in yards, parks, abandoned lots—they seemed to be everywhere! But

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It wasn’t out of character for Stratus Properties to have an apiary fi lled with up to one million bees placed on the rooftop of

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Foraged Pemmican

By Amy Crowell When Europeans first came to Texas, the Tonkawas were the major Native American group that resided in our area. They hunted many

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Of Mycophagy and Movies

By Jason Cortlund, on the making of Now, Forager It’s September 2010 as I drive from Brooklyn to a Ukrainian summer camp in the Hudson

Foraging Basics

By Amy CrowellPhotography by Andy Sams I knew foraging was finally in vogue when it hit the pages of Martha Stewart Living last year. Since then, I’ve

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Fast Foraging

By Amy Crowell Photography by Andy Sams In previous years, my foraging experiences were mostly solo missions to collect as much food as I could

Wild Edibles in Your Yard

By Amy CrowellPhotography by Andy Sams If you’re not interested in fussing over a vegetable garden, you can still eat fresh from your yard. In

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New Wave Hunter-Gatherer

By Jeremy WaltherPhotography by Jody Horton To some people, hunting is a sport, in which winners and losers were determined by the evolutionary development of

Wild Salad Season

By Amy Crowell It’s salad season in Central Texas. While many gardens and farms in this country are buried under snow right now, a stroll

Born to be Wild

In a pair of office spaces in a nondescript strip mall in northeast Austin, a massive undertaking has been quietly underway for years. Here, Scooter

Black Walnuts

By Amy Crowell I’ve spent many hours walking or boating along the rivers of Texas in search of tasty, wild foods. Even on a leisurely