In Indonesia also known as: ki urat, otot-ototan, daun urat, daun urat-urat For foragers, the surrounding nature is not only seen equals to a supermarket to find food, but also a pharmacy. Many wild plants that have healing properties appear on the side of a ditch, cracks on streets, or in your yard, like this…
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Dryad’s Saddle Mushroom
November 2021, was the beginning of the second rain season for me to practice identifying wild mushrooms. While I was looking out the window of the office building where I work, my eyes caught the first stunning sight of this mushroom. As a brief background, my current office happens to be in a village that…
Getih-getihan (Rivina humilis), A Plant with Bloody Berries
Getih-getihan is a non native herbaceous shrub plant in Indonesia. Originated from South America, it has been naturalised and widely distributed to some parts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, Eastern part of Australia, and Pacific islands. In the province of Yogyakarta where I live, I often find the plant wildly grows in abandoned buildings’ yard…
Etiquette of Foraging
Foraging can be defined as to search for, to identify, and to collect food; medicine; materials for tools that are sourced from nature. Humans have lived this method of surviving for about 90% of history, usually by the help of simple tools to collect fruit/leaves/seeds, to fish, or to hunt animals. Currently, only about 0.002%…