Start collecting information and buying books on what to forage in your local area and start practicing this summer. There is no guarantee, but you might need it next year even is just a dietary supplement to what you can pick up in the grocery store. Plus even if you don't need it, it's a cool skill to have and there's tons of stuff that you can make that is very useful regardless of whether or not anything bad happens.

There are plenty of weeds that are super nutritious and that are kind of ridiculous to call weeds considering the amount of nutrition that's available in them.

For example, wild chamomile grows through the cracks in sidewalks. I wouldn't eat or make tea from chamomile that was growing anywhere near where vehicles are running or were people might have polluted, but I bring it up to prove a point.

Book recommendations:

• the Boreal herbal
• food plants of the interior first Peoples
• edible and medicinal plants of Canada
• wild berries of Ontario
• wild edible mushrooms of Ontario

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