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A Map Shows Where Locals Can Find and Pick Wild Food for Free

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People suffering with the cost of living crisis are being offered help—a map which shows them where they can find and pick free wild food.

The Community Food Support Map shows people where food can be foraged, from vegan bacon alternatives to flower heads that can be used to make puddings.

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Based in Rame, Cornwall, the social enterprise Family Foraging Kitchen created the map as a valuable resource source for all and a way to offset the rising cost of living.

“Despite delivering our free courses and food boxes, I felt we needed to do more to help,” company founder, Vix Hill-Ryder, said.

“The cost of living at the moment is so expensive that we no longer can afford to go into a supermarket and do a weekly shop.

“It just doesn’t stretch that far. Stretching that is the way forward—and I can show you how to do that simply just with a local hedgerow”.

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The map shows people where they can find wild food in an area of Cornwall.

It described where you can discover “the best dulce”—a type of seaweed also known as sea lettuce flake—that makes a sustainable vegan bacon alternative.

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With the cost of living crisis affecting the nation’s diets, households have experienced a reduction in both the frequency of meals they consume and their nutritional value.

In April alone we saw over two million residents skipped at least one meal because they could not afford or could not access food.

“It seemed people were not only struggling here on Rame but still largely unaware of how many wonderful services we have on the peninsula all working to address the same issue,” Vix added.

“We can show you where and how to put wild, seasonal, fresh produce on your plate but other organizations have walk in pantries of stable cupboard ingredients on offer.

“Some rescue food from large supermarkets which would otherwise have gone to landfill, available on a pay as you feel donation basis.

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“Not to mention ‘gleaning’—a term some people may have never even have heard of! We wanted something that linked all local services together.

“A resource that we could put into a person’s hands, guiding them to the right thing for them and to show just how much help is available.”

Others are concerned that the map may lead to hedgerows being stripped by commercial foragers.

This is a phenomenon that has become more common in recent times, such as beds of wild garlic being stripped at Lostwithiel in Cornwall.

But one Lostwithiel resident said the destruction was “devastating” and “really upsetting to see.” They said, “Creating a map, putting it online? I’m very hesitant about it. It feels like it’s something that could very easily just get completely out of hand.

However, Vix does not seem to think that the map will encourage anybody to over pick an area.

“It’s to give people an idea of the kind of places they can go where things are in abundance,” she explains.

“But when it comes to local families and families going out to feed themselves and their children for free, I think that is the last true freedom that we have left as human beings.

“And people are not going to over pick an area if it’s on their back doorstep because it’s a valuable resource which they want to have for life.”

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