#Ubicomp13

Wild Food Practices

Alan Chamberlain & Chloe Griffiths

Setting the Context

Preparing for the Hunt

•Equipment – Important

•Picking for purpose

•Having a plan – understanding the environment and landscape

Discovery and Harvesting

•Who’s been here

•My Sites

•Timing

• Don’t harvest too many

•Quality

Preparation and Processing

Cooking

Localised Environmental Knowledge

•Secrecy – Locations not discussed

•Environmental concerns – How many, how hot, dry, mozzies, sightings, caught

•Time when ready

•Concerns over over picking

•Where

•Other species

Eating and Reflection

Supporting •Sharing

•ID

•Learning

•Culture

•Environment

•Sales - Provenance

•Rural - Urban

contact us Alan.Chamberlain@nottingham.ac.uk

This work was supported by the Research Councils UK (RCUK)