Foraging with Angela Pozarycki

The Chickweed is delicious at the moment. Note how the flowers appear to have 10 petals, but they're actually 5 deeply divided petals.

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34 years old. What did we do to celebrate? We camped rough in our bush, made a potjie, planted a lemon tree for the future, cleaned the garbage from the river, repurposed useful garbage from the dump, and watched baboons foraging in the mist 💚
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Deacon (my dear friend - a genius and a gentleman) is right, of course: the largest botanical garden in one of the most biodiverse places on Earth should not focus mainly on pretty lawns and tourists. It should be a champion of conservation.

Kirstenbosch: Drowning in neglected poached plants The plants were stolen from the wild, rescued by the state, then delivered into another kind of danger. Inside Kirstenbosch’s greenhouses, South Africa’s plant-poaching crisis has become a grim questi…

A little article I wrote on local biodiversity decline

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) warned the public not to collect or consume wild shellfish from Saldanha Bay and surrounding coastal areas after monitoring detected paralytic shellfish toxin-levels 15 times higher than the regulatory safety limit.

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Algal bloom alert. Do not harvest mussels on the West Coast for now, and NEVER harvest indigenous mussel species!

These Mountains Were Chosen to Stay Wild - The Table Mountain Fund By Bionerds PTY Ltd Keir Lynch has a habit of sitting on the edges of things. Cliff edges, mostly, the kind where you swing your legs over and look down into a valley that hasn’t changed much in ten thousand years, and you feel the particular vertigo that has nothing to...