Diego Bonetto is an artist, forager, author, keen naturalist and award-winning cultural worker based in Sydney. His work enables convivial conversations around belonging, sustainability and agency. Bonetto offers an alternative for people to re-engage with their neighbourhoods, streets and footpaths through edible adventures.
Bonetto regularly offers workshops, foraging tours and events that reframe environmental identity and stewardship. He collaborates extensively with chefs, journalists, academics, craft workers, herbalists, brewers, educators, environmentalists and landowners, providing insights into edible and medicinal wild plants in Australia while fostering culturally aware interpretations of the landscape. The first book by Diego, EAT WEEDS: A field guide to foraging, has been published in June 2022 by Thames&Hudson www.diegobonetto.com/
Wild lettuce is POSSIBLY SAFE for most people in small amounts. Wild lettuce is LIKELY UNSAFE when eaten in large amounts or when the wild lettuce has been harvested too early. This can cause sweating, fast heartbeat, pupil dilation, dizziness, ringing in the ears, vision changes, sedation, breathing difficulty, and death. Applying wild lettuce directly to the skin can cause irritation. Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Not enough is known about the use of wild lettuce during pregnancy and breast-feeding. Stay on the safe side and avoid use. Enlarged prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia, BPH): Don't use wild lettuce if you have this condition. It contains a chemical that can harm people who have trouble urinating. Allergy to ragweed and related plants: Wild lettuce may cause an allergic reaction in people who are sensitive to the Asteraceae/Compositae family. Members of this family include ragweed, chrysanthemums, marigolds, daisies, and many others. If you have allergies, be sure to check with your healthcare provider before taking wild lettuce. Narrow-angle glaucoma: Don't use wild lettuce if you have this eye condition. It contains a chemical that might make glaucoma worse.
What a great video. You got right to the point. I've got a lot of this in my garden. Are there any varieties of this thistle that are toxic look-a-likes?
It grows everywhere I don't know if the month is the same every where but where I live you can find it around June and July usually on the side of the road it's really common
It grows on the side of the road.. in the cracks of the sidewalks.. it climbs up the walls of buildings. In the city, empty abandoned lots. Grows with the weeds... But Not usually in the deeper/denser woodsy vegetation. Once you start finding it and recognizing it, you will start seeing it all over the place. Even in the city! I live in North Eastern USA, Southern Massachusetts. Just recently, this spring is when I began foraging for it!!
11:18 I understand that you want people to be careful but you can't get sick or die from touching any mushroom. You would need to ingest at least a decent size piece of death cap to die.
To kill a madeira vine, scuff the surface of shoots and leaves and immediately spray with a glyphosate poison as they reseal after only twenty seconds. Took me years of fighting this tenacious invader to learn this.
How do we get Apple Cider Vinegar with “The Mother” what specifically is “the mother” in Braggs ACV? (By the way Katie Perry bought the company and it now has a different color she has also invested in Bill Gates Apeel label some say it’s safe from plant sources others say Apeel is unsafe like Kevlar for fruits).
Looking good fams I'm a local at Hampton state Forest and finding lots of beautiful mushrooms at this very moment it is the season much love fams and happy hunting 🎉🎉😊😊. Local to Hampton and sunny corner state Forests at 3fn Adventure
no. its I rosette phase/ that's why the leaves look like this right now.. virosa is a biiit different. not by much, and when its bigger the leaves aren't as jagged.
It is easy and fun to forage.. once you learn to recognize it, you'll start seeing it in the open lots growing among the weeds... I live in a city, and I'm finding it as I drive around ... Before people mow down the weeds to make the lots look neat... 🥴
I've been working this area (I'm in Health) since the mid 90s.......I've grown to love the area.......'the Block' wasn't all bad........the way it was allowed to decay was the problem......some great characters in the various public housing blocks...........would be a shame to see the area go the same way as The Rocks.
Ive recently gotten in to foraging for mushrooms, Difficult at first because i dont know where to look as i havent done it before, I have found a few spots but not big and close to a main road so very visible for anyone to pick. I live in the ACT in australia, so i have plenty of mountains around me, I just gotta figure out the right times and \the species im going for. I also been looking in to psilosybin muchrooms for mental benefits, health benefits, sleep benefits, and also it is extremely good for depression. But they are even harder to come by, So far i have found slippery jacks and safron milk cap small spots, Im jsut waiting for a good rain and sunny day, which was meant to have this weekend, and tomorrow being sunday was gonna be sunny, i was gonna go out then but looks like the weather decided to change haha
Ironic but heartbreaking how it's such a tiny pocket of land that Indigenous Australians were "allowed" to buy, seeing they have been the rightful symbiotic custodians of this continent for over 40-100,000 years! Pink Flloyd- The Wall 🌀✋🐾👋🌀 (leave those kids alone)
There are too many to have a complete list, start with the common ones. I have an evergrowing list on my website here> www.diegobonetto.com/edible-plants
