Pulling Up the Roots on Foraging

CARTA Executive Co-Director Pascal Gagneux talks foraging with KPBS Midday Edition

What can you find in your own backyard? Click on the image below to learn more:

The 44 species collected by Pascal in about an hour and a half bike ride to UC San Diego and back:

1. Bamboo shoot
2. Bay leaves
3. Blue sage
4. Brussel sprout leaves
5. Callistemon (bottlebrush tree) flowers for nectar
6. Camphor leaves
7. Canary palm dates
8. Carissa macrocarpa (noemnoem fruit)
9. Carob pods
10. Cochenille (from Estancia near Salk)
11. Dragon Tree fruit
12. Elder flower
13. Firethorn berries
14. Kaffir Lime, fruit and leaves
15. Kumquat
16. Lambs quarter
17. Lavender
18. Lemon grass
19. Lemonade berries
20. Loquat
21. Mallow flowers
22. Mint
23. Mohave yucca leaves
24. Moreton bay figs
25. Mustard leaves
26. Nasturtium
27. New Zealand flax leaves
28. Nopales (opuntia young leaves)
29. Orange
30. Peaches
31. Poppy fruit for seeds (or opium)
32. Rosemary
33. Stinging nettle
34. Strawberry guava flowers
35. Strawberry tree fruit
36. Sweat peas
37. Torrey Pines nuts
38. Toyon berries
39. Tree tobacco (to make insecticide)
40. Tuna (opuntia cactus figs)
41. Wild fennel
42. Young macadamia nuts
43. Young pomegranate
44. Yucca filamentosa flowers