Can we turn parks in cities and towns into "Food Forests", allowing people to forage for wild and uncultivated greens to substitute their diets with healthy, and nutritious wild greens and to preserve our ancient ethnobotanical knowledge and practices? The idea looks outrageous to me but still relevant. I was going through the works of my PhD supervisor Faisal Moola, PhD on traditional foods and traditional food security in Canada, but I have also been informed from the exemplary works of my good friend Kiran Bhaskaran on promotion of school gardens and Shruti Tharayil on Forgotten Greens, and watched a few videos from cities in Karnataka, India, in which a woman shows how she forages for "Soppu" (wild greens) in her neighborhood in a city, (Video: https://lnkd.in/gtDdYzkP), and witnessed countless times of urban park maintenance workers removing and dumping huge amounts of wild greens (perceived as weeds), as a part of the landscaping routine. I thought why not we start looking at parks in Indian towns and cities in a different light - why to confine them to just aesthetics and amusement and why not for food and nutrition? Instead of dumping and discarding the wild greens as weeds, why not sell them (or distribute them among urban folks), for food? If the parks management can sell these wild greens (ofcourse that are edible), then the park can generate some extra revenue, which can be used for better management of parks in cities and towns in India. I don't think that I'm the only one thinking in this way and this idea may have been in practice already. If there is any place or park following this model then I will be more than happy to know. Thank you!! Please check Shruti Tharayil works on Forgotten Greens: https://lnkd.in/gusG69B5 Kiran Bhaskaran work on Indian Farms School: https://lnkd.in/g5D35uBW #FoodForests #ForgottenGreens #WildUncultivatedFoods #UncultivatedGreens #UrbanParks #UncultivatedFoods