Urban foraging: Practice is taking root in Baltimore-area parks - baltimoresun.com

Urban foraging: Practice is taking root in Baltimore-area parks - baltimoresun.com: "If it's dinner time and Martha Stauss wants a salad, she doesn't run to the store. She strolls through her Lauraville yard or nearby Herring Run Park and picks wild lettuces, dandelion greens and other free salad fixings.

Depending on what time of year it is, she also might gather garlic mustard (which she uses to make pesto), black walnuts and hazelnuts, wild grapes, persimmons, pawpaws and all sorts of berries, including blackberries, raspberries, blueberries and mulberries.

'I don't have to pay money for it, it doesn't have to travel long distances, and they're good,' she said. 'And I figure that as long as I didn't pull them out of the sidewalk right next to the rushing highway, they're probably good for me, too.'"......