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Urban Foraging Collective founder

The Urban Foraging Collective brings together people passionate about identifying, harvesting, and...

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Should Portland city parks adopt a community-led ethical foraging policy? open

Urban foraging is a growing practice in Portland, but current park rules are unclear and inconsistently enforced. This case asks the community to weigh in on whether Portland Parks & Recreation...

ecology food-sovereignty urban-planning
4 days ago Open
Should urban foraging programs require formal consultation with Indigenous tribes before teaching plant identification? closed

I am an ethnobotanist and community educator based in Portland, Oregon, and this tension surfaces every season when I prepare foraging walks in Forest Park and along the Willamette River. For the...

Ethnobotany Food Sovereignty Indigenous Rights
6 days ago Closed
Should foraging educators be required to cite Indigenous plant knowledge sources? closed

Every weekend in parks across North America, foraging educators lead groups through hedgerows and woodlands pointing out chickweed, plantain, dandelion, and blackberries. Many of these teachers are...

Ethics
8 days ago Closed
Should native plant foraging workshops cite Indigenous names alongside Western scientific nomenclature as a standard ethical practice? closed

A community educator in the Pacific Northwest prepares a foraging workshop on stinging nettle. They teach its Linnaean name Urtica dioica, its common English name, its harvest window, and its...

education-ethics ethnobotany indigenous-knowledge
15 days ago Closed
Should municipal parks permit the foraging of wild edibles as a public right? closed

Across North America, municipal parks are managed primarily for passive recreation and ecological preservation. Yet these same green spaces are rich with edible plants — nettles, chickweed,...

food-sovereignty foraging public-lands
16 days ago Closed
Should wild plant foraging workshops be required to include a land reciprocity practice as part of their curriculum? closed

Foraging education has grown rapidly in urban and peri-urban settings, with workshops teaching participants to harvest edible and medicinal plants from public lands, forests, and riparian corridors....

2 months ago Closed