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The joy of foraging your own food | Alexis Nikole Nelson
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There's a whole world of food growing right outside our doors — in our backyards, on sidewalks, in the parks we walk through every day — and most of us pass by it without a second glance. Alexis Nikole Nelson wants to change that. A self-described “ethnobotany nerd,” she’s spent years teaching people how to forage the wild food hiding in plain sight. She explores how paying closer attention to what’s already around us can reconnect us to the land, our communities and each other. (This conversation, hosted by TED’s Whitney Pennington Rodgers, was part of an exclusive TED Membership...
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You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day. I'm your host, Elise Hugh. There's a whole world of food growing just outside, in our backyards, around our sidewalks,
the parks we walk through every day, and most of us pass by it without a second glance. Alexis Nicole Nelson wants to change that, known to millions on social media as the black forager, the self-described ethnobotany nerd has spent years teaching people how to spot, harvest, and cook the wild plants hiding in plain sight.
And it all started when she was five years old in her mother's garden. You tell a five-year-old, actually, you could just be going and getting some food out of your lawn and nobody even put it there. And as a child, I thought it was crazy that everyone wasn't talking about it and that
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