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Originally Posted by Manfap
next step is forraging.. How much food can you gather just going out in nature, do you know what you can and cant eat?
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There are a couple of guys on that preppers show who were into this. One guy lives right in LA and knows how to gather edible plants and greens for salads etc just by looking around underpasses, along rail lines, and nearby reservoirs etc.
Of course those types of plans, while useful to a degree, don't take into consideration the effects of, oh, say any kind of radiation or nuclear fallout, acid rain, etc. In the case of the environment being compromised such a forager would definitely need a plan B.
Another guy has taken to growing edible algae/fungus, spirulina I think it was. It's naturally dense in a wide array of nutrients vital to human survival. He says he has enough growing that he could feed himself and a large group of his neighbors indefinitely with it. The look of it reminded me a lot of cooked spinach, which I like. (Although I think I'd need to re-hydrate a freeze-dried NY strip steak every once in a while to go with it)