The Learned Pig

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Tag: foraging

  • Cartographies of the Imagination

    Cartographies of the Imagination

    Cartographies of the Imagination explores the outer limits of what a map can be, interrogating the bit of lost land that falls between the pages of an atlas, journeying to places known, unknown, forgotten and fictional.         INTRODUCTION To map a place is to create a whole new one. Maps may begin…

  • Lessons from Seed

    Lessons from Seed

    A personal essay by seed researcher and baker Col Gordon on the complex relationships between plants, people and place.

  • The Undomesticated Chanterelle

    The Undomesticated Chanterelle

    The Cantharellus cibarius, most commonly known as chanterelle, is one of the most celebrated wild edible mushroom in the world. You would think by now that this prized fungus, which can be collected in the hundreds in certain wooded areas, would be commercially cultivated. But it is not. In fact, only twenty edible fungal species…