My family doesn’t tend to eat as much fruit and greens by the side of the road here in New England as we used to when we lived in Berkeley (blackberries and sour grass everywhere), and I haven’t yet managed to join a local forage and can society*, but I was still glad to read this piece from Civil Eats saying that urban foraged food is, basically, fine in terms of contaminants and may even have more micronutrients than some produce found in a store. Maybe next spring (and summer and fall) I’ll forage a bit more.

*This exists! Which is awesome. We also, apparently, have foraging tours by David Craft, who wrote URBAN FORAGING – Finding and eating wild plants in the city, though no more events in 2015.