New at Reason: Greg Beato on Why Entrepreneurial Foraging is the Next Phase of Eating Green

May 27, 2010

Among fast food outlets, giving away a free meal is an increasingly popular marketing gambit. But as Greg Beato writes in our June issue, not even Col. Sanders can keep pace with the offerings of Mother Nature. Every day, in city parks and urban median strips, in backyards, on public beaches, and in your nearest stretch of federal wilderness, the earth serves up her bounty: snails, wild radish, miner’s lettuce, stinging nettles, nasturtium, acorns, blackberries, loquats, lemons, sea asparagus, Dover sole, New Zealand spinach, chanterelles, morels, matsutake.

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