“UC Berkeley professors Philip Stark and Tom Carlson are self-proclaimed botanical rubberneckers. When both of them walk their daily route to campus, it’s rare that they’ll take a few steps without stopping in their tracks, bending down, and finding some food to snack on.
Their wild snacks are what most people would call weeds.
Weeds, they say, get a really bad rap. Instead Stark and Carlson want people to think of them as wild edibles, underprivileged plants, or forgotten foods. ‘They’re just an incredible resource and we’re not using them,’ Stark says.'”…
https://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/02/05/snacking-in-between-sidewalks-mapping-abundance-of-wild-edibles-in-the-bay-areas-food-deserts/
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
“UC Berkeley professors Philip Stark and Tom Carlson are self-proclaimed botanical rubberneckers. When both of them walk their daily route to campus, it’s rare that they’ll take a few steps without stopping in their tracks, bending down, and finding some food to snack on.
yu might like this…have a listen
http://www.viralnova.com/on-the-dock/?mb=vnnl&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Viralnova%20Daily&utm_campaign=ViralNova%20Daily%202015-02-09
nice stories here
hero dog
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Good_News/2015/02/16/22239811.html
and
the RCMP always get their man…..errrrrr……Seal
((how DID that seal know to stay in back of truck for an hour long ride?))
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Good_News/2015/02/16/22240326.html
Lloyd
this seems almost too good/easy to be true, but if so,
you could raise your own bees/gather honey…LOTS of it easy..
http://ecowatch.com/2015/02/23/flow-crowdsources-2-million-first-day/?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=4376a8358a-Top_News_2_24_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-4376a8358a-85979881
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/flow-hive-honey-on-tap-directly-from-your-beehive