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How to navigate foraging boundaries and ethics

I found an incredible patch of wild blackberries on someone's abandoned property and I keep going back even though I'm probably trespassing because nowhere else feels this abundant.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You are caught between legal abstractions and the older law that says unused land calls out to be tended and harvested.

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“Where Are You with Foraging and wild food?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.