This cold weather has me dreaming of summer foraging 🥹🌿 👉 Drop a picture from your camera roll in the comments of one of your favorite finds from last season - or tell us what you're looking for in the upcoming season! It can be: 🌱 A plant 🍄 A mushroom 🐛 An insect 🪨 A rock 🐍 An animal ✨ Something weird and wonderful 👇 What did YOU find out there?

I have updated our community so that it has two options or "tiers" for new, incoming members - one paid "premium" tier ($9 per month) and one FREE tier. The Free tier will grant new members access to the community and to ONE course (the "Beginning Forager's Action Steps" course) The premium tier will grant new members access to the community and ALL the courses. Y'all who are already here won't notice the change...I don't think. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for sticking with me as I get this all figured out!

I got a question the other day about why this group and my book use the term “Eco-Punk”. While the answer might feel obvious to many of us, I think it’s worth slowing down and naming what this movement really means. Punk has always been about rejecting unjust rules and social norms - especially the ones that harm marginalized people. Foraging is punk because it ignores one of the most deeply ingrained, unspoken rules of our current system: that there must always be a middleman between you and your food, medicine, and basic resources. For me, the clearest example is food. I volunteer at my local food bank, and I believe food is a human right. Foraging pushes back against the idea that food is something you must always earn, buy, or be granted access to. This rule may be unspoken, but it is absolutely enforced - through zoning laws, regulations, HOAs, and the widespread use of herbicides that prevent food from growing freely in our cities, towns, and even our own yards. Most of all, it’s enforced through propaganda and social conditioning. If you’ve ever believed that foraging is dirty, dangerous, or difficult - that’s not your fault. And you’re not completely wrong. Foraging feels dirty, dangerous, and difficult because our connection to nature has been severed. Just like people can experience pain in a “phantom limb” after an amputation, many of us still feel the ache of that lost connection - even if we don’t have the words for it. The difference is this: unlike a severed limb, your connection to nature can be regrown. You can break the rules of oppression and relearn how to gather food that nature freely provides - just as your ancestors did for thousands of years before supermarkets and supply chains existed. Foraging is only dangerous when you don’t know how to do it. If you can tell the difference between blue Kool-Aid and Windex, you can learn to tell the difference between poison hemlock and wild carrot. Foraging is only dangerous when you’re taught not to trust yourself - not to research, not to learn, not to make informed choices.