We do most of our shopping at a farm stand on Long Island. It's good, as far as the standard fruits and vegetables go, but last week I realized that the range of what we all eat is actually quite limited. There are many more wild edibles out there that have amazing complexity and taste and nutrition. So when I got home I pulled the purslane growing wild in the front garden and made a salad out of it--best salad I've eaten in decades.
The Native Americans practiced permaculture in addition to regular agriculture, and most of their cultivated species persist all around us now, except nobody knows it. We're literally surrounded with an abundance of food and herbal medicines that almost no one takes advantage of.
We do most of our shopping at a farm stand on Long Island. It's good, as far as the standard fruits and vegetables go, but last week I realized that the range of what we all eat is actually quite limited. There are many more wild edibles out there that have amazing complexity and taste and nutrition. So when I got home I pulled the purslane growing wild in the front garden and made a salad out of it--best salad I've eaten in decades.
The Native Americans practiced permaculture in addition to regular agriculture, and most of their cultivated species persist all around us now, except nobody knows it. We're literally surrounded with an abundance of food and herbal medicines that almost no one takes advantage of.