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You made it to the end of the exhibit! Whether hungry for more recipes or wanting to know more about a certain part of history, here is the place to learn more. Below are a handful of useful apps, influencers, and more to dive even farther into the world of foraging!

Foraging Apps

iNaturalist

A free app for recording and sharing observations with fellow lovers of the outdoors

Seek

By the creators of iNaturalist, identify plants and animals

PictureThis

An app for identifying plants and providing detailed information

FallingFruit

A collaborative map of free food sources in urban spaces

Foraging Experts

Alexis Nikole Nelson

Nelson is a popular cook, forger, and internet personality, known for videos based on her experience and advice on foraging.

Samuel Thayer

Wild food forger and author of many books, including

The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants

Green Deane

Deane has been foraging for 70+ years. He has created hundreds of videos and articles covering edible plants and wrote the book Eat the Weeds.

Ellen Zachos

Zachos is a foraging expert, instructor, and food writer. She has written six books, including two on edible plants for food and cocktails.

Foraging Podcasts

Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

"A Low-Brow, Crass Approach to Plant Ecology & Evolution as muttered by a Misanthropic Chicago Italian. We study plants through the lens of ecology and evolution, rather than what supposed anthropocentric uses they can provide (as if holding up the biosphere wasn't enough)."

Wild Edible World

"A foraging podcast on untamed flavors found trailside, curbside, and low tide; where the best food is FREE. In this aural exploration, we will discuss wild plants with the people that eat them around the world. The goal is to learn, and share, but also lessen the stigma surrounding the wild edible plants and mushrooms that surround us."

Books about Foraging

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).

Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.

by Ashanté M. Reese

In this book, Reese makes clear the structural forces that determine food access in urban areas, highlighting Black residents’ navigation of and resistance to unequal food distribution systems. Linking these local food issues to the national problem of systemic racism, Reese examines the history of the majority-Black Deanwood neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Reese not only documents racism and residential segregation in the nation’s capital but also tracks the ways transnational food corporations have shaped food availability. By connecting community members’ stories to the larger issues of racism and gentrification, Reese shows there are hundreds of Deanwoods across the country.

Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native People

by Mark Dowie

How native people—from the Miwoks of Yosemite to the Maasai of eastern Africa—have been displaced from their lands in the name of conservation.