Foraging for wild food

6 Minute English

语言学习

2023-07-20

6 分钟

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  • Beth: I'm Beth.

  • Neil: And I'm Neil.

  • Beth: Nowadays we are so used to getting food

  • whenever we want that we've almost forgotten how we managed in the past.

  • But for thousands of years before supermarkets, humans found food through foraging –

  • moving from place to place looking for wild food to eat.

  • Neil: Since the Covid pandemic, foraging for wild food has become popular again.

  • Why go to the shops when you can walk into nearby countryside and parks

  • to collect edible plants, mushrooms, and fruit for free?

  • Beth: Of course, you can't eat everything you find growing outside -

  • some poisonous plants can make you very ill.

  • But there's something exciting about setting off on a culinary treasure hunt

  • to find new edible plants for dinner.

  • Neil: In this programme,

  • we'll be hearing about a new foraging project taking place across the UK,

  • and, as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well.

  • Beth: But first I have a question for you, Neil.

  • 2019 was a good year for the group,

  • Wild Food UK, with the launch of their foraging pocket guide,

  • a handbook aimed at helping foragers find and identify safe wild food to eat.