Your backyard is the best place to forage

There is food and medicine growing right outside your door, right now. It has always been there. Our backyard is the most intimate threshold between us and other species, the ones that have learnt to live close to us. It is a place where we experience countless interactions with nature – incidental exchanges, as well as the incredible unfolding of adaptation. There are insects in our backyards, lizards, birds and weeds. Some seem not-sofriendly, but most have a lot to teach us about ourselves and how our actions affect the land around us.

Our backyard is our sanctuary. This little corner of the world, one that we tend to define with a fence and boundary pegs, is both the modern development of the process of domestication that allowed us