Urban Foraging
The Ultimate Revenge Against Weeds!
4 min readJul 6, 2020
By Kathy Jentz
On any sweltering summer Saturday in the District of Columbia, several members of EcolocityDC gather for an “Herban Foraging” walk and talk. Within one hour, they locate at least 10 edible weeds growing in the neighborhood around Howard University. They picked and sampled mainly wild greens — dandelion, sorrel, purslane, oxalis, chicory…