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Finding food in the city is easy these days. With some money
in the pocket you can enter any supermarket, fuel station, bar or even a tobacco
shop and you can find something which stills your hunger. When you don’t have
money it gets a bit harder but leftovers of the well-doers might help you to feed
your food-asking-stomach. But aren’t there more adventurous ways to fulfill your
needs?
The first phrase of this post might not be true for
everyone. Off course for many it isn’t hard to get some food, whether it is in one
way or in another. Unfortunately for many it isn’t so easy to have a decent
meal each day. Not because they don’t have money. No, it is because the
supermarkets or local shops are too far away or because they only offer processed
food. If that’s the case, you live in a so called food desert.
Food deserts are getting more common in the urbanizing
society. Luckily there’s also a movement which tries to hydrate these areas with fresh produce. They start to grow balcony or rooftop gardens or
hook-up with others and open a community garden. A good solution which I fully
support, but one which is not very adventurous.
No. More interesting to me are the Indiana Jones’ of the city.
Those people who bring a basket and walk around the streets looking for fruit
trees, edible weeds and tasty flowers. A hobby which used to be only for the ‘weirdoes’
became fully accepted and even cool in the last years. Was it the economic
crisis or are citizens looking for some excitement in their lives?
Last week I also started to consider to do some wild picking.
As my weekly fruit and vegetable basket contains stuff like dandelion (or taraxacum) I started to think that I can also
pick them myself. And bramble picking in the woods is something I like to do, so
why not do it in the city?
So far it is just thinking. I didn’t put it into action, besides the
one bramble I took to try whether it was sweet and tasty. Well, exempt for some
sour bite, it was really good. So maybe next time I’ll take a basket and go and
collect some fruit to make it into delicious juices and jams. But first some
weeks of holiday!
See you in a few weeks.
