date:Mar 25, 2013
le market, said eating wild foods was not only cheap and healthy but good for the environment.
It really takes on the whole idea of agriculture, which is so foundational to the way we think about food, he said.
Cornell University ecologist Antonio DiTommaso said he was encouraged by the growing interest in eating wild plants and thinks the trend could affect which crops are grown. He no longer buys lettuce in the summer, he said, choosing instead to eat a mixture of plants from his yard in ups