Foraging with Angela Pozarycki

6.30am in the middle of nowhere, Western Cape.
Madame sneakypants broke into my room the night before... but her plans were foiled thereafter!

Nothing beats indigenous forest.
Let's challenge ourselves to actively remove all aliens from our properties and plant indigenous. Remove and eat the edible aliens found on and off your property- eradicate them through constant use.

I may get sick, but I'm living!
Get yourself to the beach in the rain, just once in your life.
No foraging today- picking edible indigenous beach plants is unethical and illegal. It harms the environment so much more than we tend to realize. There is little alien food to be found on most WC beaches, besides the invasive Mediterranean mussel.

Sometimes it's good to sit on the beach, in the rain, under a bush, no supplies, drenched clothes, and just exist. I enjoyed watching the Kelp Gulls huddling between the dunes.

Cape Town to Plett on the bus: a grueling journey for your back (and immune system), but our Western Cape views are unlike anything on Earth.
That said, I saw a scary number of alien plants suffocating these gorgeous environs. Let's protect our natural spaces, our indigenous species, our water. Remove aliens, and where possible, eat them, use them as medicine, or as materials.

Hermit crabs! One of the reasons we need to protect the indigenous plant and animal species on our shores, rather than forage them. Healthy shores support these delightful little guys.
You might hear me say "damn it!" in the video. The miracle of a hermit crab changing its old shell for a new one is rarely caught on camera. I missed it by seconds. The white shell is his happy new home, and you can see his old shell lying next to him.