Mastodawn

What #icefishing can teach us about making #foraging decisions
Humans are natural #foragers in even most extreme habitats, digging up tubers in tropics, gathering mushrooms, picking berries, hunting seals in Arctic, and fishing to meet our dietary needs. Human foraging is sufficiently complex scientists believe that meeting so many diverse challenges helped our species develop memory, navigational abilities, social learning skills and similar advanced cognitive functions.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/what-ice-fishing-can-teach-us-about-making-foraging-decisions/

What ice fishing can teach us about making foraging decisions

Social density increases likelihood of sticking with a location. Environmental factors had little influence.

Ars Technica

DoomsdaysCW Feb 23

#SolarPunkSunday musings...

So, in contemplating my own vision of a #SolarPunk community, there are some *jobs* that imho are crucial to running any type of close-knit community /society...

1. People trained in #FirstAid / #MedicalArts -- for both humans and non-humans
2. #Plumbers
3. #Carpenters
4. #Masons
5. #Blacksmiths / #Metalworkers
6. #Architects / #Planners
7. #Foresters / #Foragers
8. #Gardeners / #Farmers / #FoodProducers
9. #Menders / #Cobblers / #Clothiers / #Seamsters / #Tailors
10. #Chemists / #Alchemists
11. #Herbalists / #Compounders
12. #CitizenScientists / #Observers
13. #Potters / #Ceramics experts
14. #Computer / #Technology fixers (especially #electrical and #solar)
15. #Mothers / #Caregivers
16. #Teachers / #Librarians
17. #Cooks
18. #Cleaners
19. #Weavers / #Spinners / #FiberArtists

Other suggestions?

Lotte Is Antifa-scist 🚩Dec 10

Een al wat oudere paarssteelschijnridderzwam. Dit jaar groeien er veel op een veldje hier in de buurt. Ze zijn eetbaar, ik heb een paar weken geleden een jongere variant geplukt maar vond ze echt niet lekker. Vooral de geur was onplezierig. Ze roken een beetje naar stookolie. Ik vraag me af of dat de kerosine is van het vliegveld hier in de buurt. #paddenstoel #foragers #mushroom

Anthropology.net Dec 8

New research overturns the myth of perfectly equal hunter-gatherers. Even the most “egalitarian” societies navigate inequality using subtle political tools that protect autonomy. Equality, it turns out, is hard-won. #Anthropology #HumanOrigins #Foragers #Inequality https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-equality-has-edges-rethinking

When Equality Has Edges: Rethinking “Egalitarian” Societies Through Their Everyday Politics

New research argues that even humanity’s most egalitarian communities live with inequality, raising difficult questions about how fairness actually works in small-scale societies.

Anthropology.net

DoomsdaysCW Sep 28

‘If you can’t beat them, eat them.’ Why foraging for invasive plants is good for you — and the planet.

How to identify and cook two invasive species

By Jenna Perlman, Updated April 16, 2024

"The Globe asked local #foragers for recipes incorporating two edible (and quite tasty) invasives: #GarlicMustard and #JapaneseKnotweed. Below is a detailed identification guide and some of the best recipes, with help from certified educator Rachel Goclawski, who runs the 'Cooking with Mrs. G' YouTube channel."

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/7CNV1

#SolarPunkSunday #InvasiveSpecies #EatEmToBeatEm #Foraging #Recipes

Why foraging for invasive plants is good for you — and the planet.

Here's how to identify and cook two invasive species.

The Boston Globe

Longreads Jun 20, 2025

"The 'Western world' is not the culmination of a 10,000-year-long march but an anomaly in a 300,000-year-long history of Homo sapiens’ cultural adaptability."

Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias for @SAPIENS_org: https://www.sapiens.org/biology/foragers-seasonality-social-change-flexibility-societies/

#Longreads #History #Society #Humanity #Civilization #Foragers

How Societies Morph With the Seasons

An anthropologist chronicles radical changes foragers undertake seasonally—and how the rigidity of industrialized societies is an anomaly.

SAPIENS

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Mar 29, 2025

For Modern #Foragers, This Map Reveals #Urban Abundance

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/falling-fruit-urban-foraging/

For Modern Foragers, This Map Reveals Urban Abundance

Through Falling Fruit, people around the world can find edible plants to enjoy — often in unexpected places.

Reasons to be Cheerful

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Bee 🐝Mar 27, 2025

doing a much needed clean up over here (suggestions always welcome) #wildFood #foraging #forager #foragers

Bluesky

Bluesky Social

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Radical Anthropology Jan 4, 2025

Cooperative women's labour networks (Kraft et al #Batek #foragers show more extensive female networks than #Tsimane forager/horticulturlists) and gift exchange (Wiessner, Apicella)

Women's leisure time (Dyble et al, Agta women foragers have more than those who have settled as #farmers)

And last but not least is the influence of #music, #dance and #song on #women's solidarity and #collective power (Lewis, Finnegan, Kisliuk, Grauer, Bombjakova, England)

#MornaFinnegan writes beautifully here on the #danceoffs of women among Central #African #Forest peoples, and the incredibly rude words they sing to men!

https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9655.12060

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Oct 15, 2024

#Google Serving #AI-Generated Images of #Mushrooms Could Have 'Devastating Consequences'
Google serving AI-generated images of mushrooms when users search for some species, risky and potentially fatal error for #foragers trying to figure out what mushrooms are safe to eat.
As seen in other instances when Google surfaced AI-generated images and presented them to users in results as if they were real, Google pulled the AI image from site where it was plainly flagged as such
https://www.404media.co/google-serves-ai-generated-images-of-mushrooms-putting-foragers-at-risk/

Google Serving AI-Generated Images of Mushrooms Could Have 'Devastating Consequences'

AI-generated images of mushrooms that look nothing like the real species could spread misleading and dangerous information.

404 Media