Honouring Nature: The Forager’s Code

I’m a keen forager but it’s really important to remember the responsibility that comes with foraging.

Whilst our motivation is usually to create something, it’s important to remember our place in this process. When we take something we become more than a visitor to a place, we actually become part of that place.

It’s important that our actions don’t hurt a carefully balanced system. Within any eco-system, other organisms depend on each other to survive.

Known as the Forager’s Code, it is our duty to work out how we can insert ourselves into this carefully balanced network without harming it. The Forager’s Code must be observed at all times:

• Minimise damage
• Collect from plentiful sources only 
• Leave plenty behind - remember you come second to other birds and animals
• Do not collect rare species 
• Respect Nature
  
  

To add to that, I would say:

• Don’t pick roots or bulbs
• If you’re not 100% sure what you’re picking, don’t 
• Leave no trace of your visit
  
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