6 Wild Foods That Taste, Smell, or Feel Like Candy
Satiating your sweet tooth doesn’t have to come at the expense of your health. Lots of artificial sweet treats and their flavors, textures, and feel are inspired by nature.
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Josh Wayne aims to follow in the footsteps of T. Colin Campbell, PhD as he pursues a career of wholistic health-promotion. With a Masters of Public Health (MPH), Masters of Social Work (MSW), and Certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition from CNS and eCornell, Josh promotes physical and mental wellbeing through "upstream" solutions. He helps his community live in harmony with their environment through foraging, conflict management, and nutritional awareness. He combines these seemingly distinct practices into a new field that he calls Empath*ology. He offers training for empathizers as well as one-on-one and group empath*ology sessions in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Satiating your sweet tooth doesn’t have to come at the expense of your health. Lots of artificial sweet treats and their flavors, textures, and feel are inspired by nature.
Most people think of spinach and kale when they think of “leafy greens.” Joshua Wayne, our favorite forager, is here to point us toward another source of edible leafy greens: the trees. Some of these edible tree leaves may even be in your backyard.
Most people derive their vitamin D from exposure to the sun, but what do you do when you can’t get enough sunshine? Many rely on vitamin D supplements, but can eating mushrooms be an option? There are a few things to know…
There’s no doubt pollinators help the environment, but focusing efforts on honey bee populations rather than native species may be doing more harm than good.
Foraging can be a fun and sustainable way to source food, but where do you start? Here are 5 steps to help you forage local, tasty plants.
These 5 mushrooms have tastes and textures that will make it ever-so-easy to swap them for meat and fish in your diet!
In an effort to get to know the environment around him, one man finds a way to not only learn about his surroundings but feed himself and find community.