{"id":22952,"date":"2014-11-04T14:40:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T14:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=22952"},"modified":"2014-11-04T14:40:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T14:40:51","slug":"food-group-urges-sustainable-foraging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/11\/04\/food-group-urges-sustainable-foraging\/","title":{"rendered":"Food group urges sustainable foraging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the face of the increasingly\u00a0prevalent\u00a0issue of commercial foraging,\u00a0one company is promoting the importance of sustainability.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 436px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/Active_Wk5_ForageMain_TC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22977\" alt=\"Gathered here today: A congregation of foragers look for food in Bute Park\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/Active_Wk5_ForageMain_TC-436x312.jpg\" width=\"436\" height=\"312\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22977\" alt=\"Gathered here today: A congregation of foragers look for food in Bute Park\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/Active_Wk5_ForageMain_TC-436x312.jpg\" width=\"436\" height=\"312\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Gathered here today: A congregation of foragers look for food in Bute Park<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildfooduk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wild Food UK<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0courses, which help people identify the edible plants and fungi in their local area, stress the importance of taking only what you need.<\/p>\n<p>Recent over-foraging in Epping Forest has seen pickers there hit with heavy fines but Wild Food founders, Marlow Renton and Eric Biggane, believe that the wrong people are being targeted.<\/p>\n<p>Renton says, \u201cIt\u2019s pointless picking 20kg of mushrooms if you\u2019ve not got anyone to sell them to. Where&#8217;s the money being made out of this crime? It&#8217;s by the suppliers and the restaurants, so tax them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking for some sustainable foraging?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildfooduk.com\/foraging-trips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Book a course with Wild Food<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><sup><em>Listen to Wild Food UK&#8217;s Marlow Renton thoughts on the issue of commercial foraging<\/em><\/sup><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-22952-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/wav\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/WFUK-Final-Cut.wav?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/WFUK-Final-Cut.wav\">https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/WFUK-Final-Cut.wav<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n<p><sub><em>Video reproduced with the permission of Wild Food UK.\u00a0<\/em><\/sub><sub><em>Photos and audio by Tom Carter.<\/em><\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wild Food UK stress the importance of taking only what you need<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":22979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[696,3938,3939,2098,3940,3941,458,692,810,2099],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-22952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-active-life","tag-bute-park","tag-epping-forest","tag-eric-biggane","tag-foraging","tag-london-restaurant-trade","tag-marlow-renton","tag-sustainability","tag-sustainable","tag-sustainable-living","tag-wild-food-uk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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