The leaf-disks collected by the forager ants are transported back to the colony where the sap can be harvested for food.

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The locally-minded duo keeps a forager on staff and raises Mangalista hogs with a collective in Mississippi (cochon means "pig" in French).

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Chef James Golding is working with his forager and kitchen gardener to create a menu where 95% of the ingredients come from within a 15-mile radius.

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Lightner and a full-time forager provide Atera with wintergreen, nettles, other plants, and fungi, mainly from upstate New York, and one wall of its dining room has been transformed into a vertical herb garden, overflowing with aromatics like camphor, lavender, and mint.

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Over the past few days, permaculture practitioners and urban food policy followers not just in the Emerald City but around the globe have been positively abuzz with news that a hilly and undeveloped 7-acre parcel of land owned by Seattle Public Utilities will be transformed into a lush, forager-friendly wonderland called the Beacon Food Forest.

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