The piquant wood sorrel is used in appetising chutneys and goes into salads; the sour butterfly pea flowers make nourishing tisanes; and the bitter balloon vine go into delicious rasams and chilas.

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One of the cheapest ways to educate yourself about urban foraging is by attending workshops hosted by knowledgeable locals.

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One such initiative that is of great academic interest is the role of wild edible plants in the human diet. Wild edible foods that are native to indigenous and traditional foodways are derived from ...

Successfully growing wheat encouraged prehistoric humans to take up farming, changing the way they had lived for millions of years. They began to settle down in one place, clear and plough fields, sow ...

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Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own. By Mac Barnett For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in ...

The world's botanic gardens must pull together to protect global plant biodiversity in the face of the extinction crisis, amid restrictions on wild-collecting, say researchers. A major study of ...