Solutions: Foraging Apps
Food shortages seem inevitable and let’s face it, you’re no Stefan Verstappen.
And you certainly don’t have time to live many years in the forest learning to forage from your ancestors. Who has time for that with so many Grand Theft World episodes to catch up on?
It’s time to leverage technology to find out what’s edible out there and what isn’t. Some of these apps are free, some are not, but here’s a small list to kick start your push to anti-fragility.
Happy foraging!
PictureThis® identifies 1,000,000+ plants every day with 98% accuracy- better than most human experts. Get your gardening questions answered and become a “green thumb” with PictureThis!
iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.
PlantSnap is an easy-to-use plant identifier app. Use it for instant flower identification, tree identification, and other plant identification needs!
With Forager Diary, keeping track of your finds of wild edibles is a snap.
• Easily document every wild edible you find with photos, field notes, the date you found it, and its exact location, all presented in a gorgeous interface.
• Visualize them all on a big, beautiful map.
VILD MAD A Danish guide to foraging. English version included.
Mushrooms Lite Is it edible, perhaps toxic, even hallucinogenic? A mushroom identification manual would be useful now – but who likes to crawl through the undergrowth with a bulky book?! With this app, you won’t have to.