TEALEAVES's video: Foraging for Superfoods In Good Taste Ep 1

The first episode in our series on how to live better through taste. Knowing that our tastes affect our behaviors, and our behaviors affect our impact, how could we alter our tastes in order to ensure that our impact on this world and on our bodies is a positive one? Our first answer: Foraging. The value of local plant species has been an essential element of many cultures dating back millennia. Yet today, where 75% of our diet comes from only 12 crops (FAO), the names and uses of these wild and feral foods have been selectively bred out of our edible vocabulary. Get in touch with your inner naturalist with Prof. Philip B. Stark, and Daphne Miller MD, as they guide us through the benefits of urban foraging. Join Berkeley Open Source Food in celebrating the bounty of biodiversity during Wild and Feral Food Week: https://osfood.berkeley.edu/ Continue your journey blending internal wellness with the external environment, to arrive at a resilient future, visit: https://onblend.tealeaves.com/taste Stay up to date with all the knowledge you can harvest: http://bit.ly/2MypUwo More on our collaborators: Philip B. Stark is Professor of Statistics and Associate Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and the founder of Berkeley Open Source Food. He studies inference and uncertainty quantification in physical, biological, and social sciences. He is passionate about urban foraging, including studying the safety, nutrition, and availability of wild and feral foods in urban ecosystems and their value for ecosystem services and nutrition security. Daphne Miller, MD, is a practicing family physician, author, Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco and Research Scientist at University of California Berkeley. As founder of the Health from the Soil Up Initiative, she studies the connections among health, culture, and agriculture, with the goal of building a healthier and more resilient food system from the soil up. For the past fifteen years, her work has focused on aligning agriculture and conservation with human health. https://www.drdaphne.com/ Directed and Edited by Nathalie Attallah and Carly Williams. About TEALEAVES: https://www.tealeaves.com/pages/about Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TealeavesCo Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TealeavesCo Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/TealeavesCo Don't Forget to Subscribe! http://bit.ly/2MypUwo