Food is free if you know where to look
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Food is free if you know where to look
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#2...well that’s pretty offensive framing. Are time and tool acquisition free too? Because frankly you’re going to have trouble eating possum without both.
I’m all for kids eating blackberries off wild bushes, but let’s not pretend this is free to anyone except those that can already afford as much food as they need.
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#3Super cool project! I was interested in something similar!! Glad to see they open sourced the data as well!!!
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#4I was directed to a pair of ponderosa pine trees. Yum!
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#5I was directed to a pair of ponderosa pine trees. Yum!
Well, at least they smell edible.
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#6Got to say this is an impressively dense map, there's plenty of options within 1 mile of my current location. Seems dangerous to use this info though, who knows what kinds of pesticides are sprayed on those fruit trees for example.
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#7...well that’s pretty offensive framing. Are time and tool acquisition free too? Because frankly you’re going to have trouble eating possum without both. I’m all for kids eating blackberries off wild bushes, but let’s not pretend this is free to anyone except those that can already afford as much food as they need.
yeah its not free exactly, its not being policed.
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#8I was directed to a pair of ponderosa pine trees. Yum!
I think you can get pine nuts from the cones of ponderosa pines, which might be why they're included.
The tree filter does in general seem over-inclusive regarding how practical getting something edible from the trees is though. The most common trees it turns up near me are sugar maples in parks. They do produce edible maple syrup, but you have to drill taps into them to extract the sap, which is probably not a great idea in a public park.
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#9Someone should do this for tech meetups with free pizza and beer. I practically lived on those my first year in the bay area. If you're smart you can eat for free every night of the week in exchange for listening to a few boring lightning talks and recruiter pitches.
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#10I was directed to a pair of ponderosa pine trees. Yum!
Once extracted from the cones, the pine nuts (seeds) are quite delicious.