
How Does Foraging Benefit Us?
It’s a fact. Our urban parks had never been so busy as during the first lockdown of 2020. Suddenly everyone was out there, taking their daily outdoor allowance in their local wildish spaces, when previously, the notion of simply heading out for a daily dose of the outdoors, would never have occurred to a lot of people. Whilst it’s certainly quietened down out there, many people have kept up the habit of making time to spend outdoors regularly. And why not? The health benefits are well documented. Having access to green space is associated with lower stress levels, (Thompson et