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I'm Matt Kip.
I've been eating wild things for over thirty years.
I grew up in central South Carolina exploring the vast tract of forest across the road from my house. A tribe of boys and I dug kaolin clay from creek banks, followed deer tracks in the sand and played stalking games in the bracken fern. Those experiences planted in me a love for the wild around us, as well as for the wild I connected to within. I sensed there must be some way for a modern person to engage deeply with these forces.
When I was 16, a neighbor took me foraging one afternoon. It was as if someone pointed out a trap door, a secret exit from a world in which everything had to be exchanged for money. I had never experienced such a feeling of radical freedom. I realized I was surrounded by food and medicine, hidden in plain sight. In those days before the internet, I read every book I could find in the library about wild edibles and went on walks with Doug Elliott and Steven "Snowbear" Taylor, two respected regional foragers.
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Come Forage with me!
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