Everything we need for food, clothing, and shelter already exists in the natural world around us. The only thing missing is our knowledge and awareness. All of us have ancestors who lived and prospered with the land during the Stone Age in what some scholars have dubbed the "original affluent society". This class will begin with a talk about our hunter-gatherer forbearers and what anthropology and archeology can teach us about the success of their communities and how it is directly related to the gathering and sharing of wild food.
Then we will go for a foraging hike to identify and sample several local wild edible plants that are ripe for harvest at this time of year.