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- Feb 25, 2021
I don't have the link to hand, but her Amazon wishlist was an absolute ton of "intro to" and "beginner" books about herbcraft and foraging. Seems symptomatic: if you keep buying the same 101 information, it's all going to be the same; at some point you need personal experience or deeper study.I’ve known some….questionable foragers in the past but they definitely didn’t offer advice to anyone else other than “google it but I didn’t”.
Like you said, she’s completely inexperienced *and* is passing on bad information to others which is unacceptable and downright dangerous.
She spends all day online and has a TikTok, but can’t watch any of the incredibly knowledgeable and experienced foragers that post there, and it requires a shorter attention span than YouTube even.
Staph has never taken her viewers on a walk around the neighborhood.
I've casually watched some YouTube foragers and the takeaway is that they know their own surroundings very, very well. They have the background horticultural knowledge then take that into the literal field, becoming familiar with the plants that grow in their own walking radius the same instinctive way a bargain shopper knows the layouts of their usual stores and where to find the markdowns.
Anachronistic metaphor intended. It's neat to see an ape instinct taken back from, y'know, the cancer of modernity. If you pay attention to the plants around you, it won't be this stilted, book-learning for long; the mass of green turns into a hundred different things once you look, and keep looking. Staph is just posting factoids that she's finding from the index of her mass-market herb book.