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Adding tread lightly advice
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SnailBones committed Apr 18, 2024
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- **Take only what you will use**. Leave most plants for others, wildlife, and so the plants themselves can continue to grow and reproduce. Often, processing and cooking your foraged food will take much longer than harvesting, so don't get carried away!
- **Learn the natives.** If you harvest native plants, do so with extra restraint and care. Better yet, consider growing them!
- **Don't spread invasives.** Harvest non-native plants before they go to seed. Take care not to spread seeds to new areas. Watch out for goatheads on your shoes!
- **Tread lightly.** Many native plants are fragile and easily damaged by a misstep. Take care not to trample smaller plants when foraging, and stay on paths and trails when you can.
- **Cut, don't pull**. Even if you're harvesting a non-native weed, pulling disturbs soil life and can contribute to erosion.
- **Start in your neighborhood.** The plants listed here are probably growing near you, maybe even in your yard! By foraging near home, we avoid disrupting natural ecosystems and burning fossil fuels for transit. Get to know your neighbors, odds are they'll be happy to share some "weeds"!

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