The Bay Area’s serene landscape is teeming with hidden, edible food. If one knows where to look, they can easily find clusters of fresh mushrooms growing in the forest or sea rocks covered in salty mussels.
Carrie Staller knows plenty about scouting for such foods. The Berkeley resident is the founder of Fork in the Path, a local organization that offers public classes and educational workshops about foraging. The term refers to an age-old practice of gathering wild plants, fruits, seafood or fungi for food.
For Staller, foraging is a “precious” and “simple” activity that one can do to connect with nature. They can experience a sense of mindfulness from gathering together, looking for food and then cooking the bounty, she said…