Comments on: Friday Buffet http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/05/02/friday-buffet-32/ a look at how America squanders nearly half of its food Fri, 16 May 2008 04:52:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Jonathan http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/05/02/friday-buffet-32/#comment-26929 Mon, 05 May 2008 18:59:44 +0000 http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/05/02/friday-buffet-32/#comment-26929 Dang city folk! I promise to be careful with my assumptions. That said, how is a forager to know whether something's truly wild or planted? The "Warning Pesticide" sign idea is a great one. I wish that would scare off pests, too! Glad to hear that the festival composting went so well. Dang city folk! I promise to be careful with my assumptions. That said, how is a forager to know whether something’s truly wild or planted?

The “Warning Pesticide” sign idea is a great one. I wish that would scare off pests, too!

Glad to hear that the festival composting went so well.

]]> by: Rosa http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/05/02/friday-buffet-32/#comment-26915 Mon, 05 May 2008 16:50:42 +0000 http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/05/02/friday-buffet-32/#comment-26915 Be careful assuming that asparagus is wild. I grew up in farm country and there are a lot of apparently wild ditches full of raspberries, asparagus, daylilies (edible AND beautiful), mint, etc that actually belong to someone, who is going to be mad if some city people snag all of the fruit before they get it harvested. Hiding the wild asparagus with artful planting of tallgrass is an art form around my home town. Also sticking WARNING PESTICIDE signs up where nothing actually got sprayed. p.s. this weekend was a big parade & festival in our neighborhood. I put out trash/recycling buckets (I sort them myself) and also a compostables bucket - we're going to have to pull a lot of sticks out of food served on a stick, mostly mangos, but people were really good with the compostable bucket otherwise. Be careful assuming that asparagus is wild. I grew up in farm country and there are a lot of apparently wild ditches full of raspberries, asparagus, daylilies (edible AND beautiful), mint, etc that actually belong to someone, who is going to be mad if some city people snag all of the fruit before they get it harvested.

Hiding the wild asparagus with artful planting of tallgrass is an art form around my home town. Also sticking WARNING PESTICIDE signs up where nothing actually got sprayed.

p.s. this weekend was a big parade & festival in our neighborhood. I put out trash/recycling buckets (I sort them myself) and also a compostables bucket - we’re going to have to pull a lot of sticks out of food served on a stick, mostly mangos, but people were really good with the compostable bucket otherwise.

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