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Welcome to all things foraging! A new foraging community, where we come together to explore the bountiful wonders of the natural world and share our knowledge of gathering wild goods! 🌱🍓🫐

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Digital Goods and Resources! 📌 (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I thought it could be a good idea to gather valuable resources for people to use whilst foraging! Feel free to comment other suggestions and I'll expand the list periodically. For now the list is minimal and general, but if/when it expands i might categorize them based on region or field of interest. Give us your best resources! 📚

Shroomify (Mushroom Identifier App)
- Link to Android app and for, iOS Devices
Falling Fruit (Interactive Foraging Map)
- https://fallingfruit.org/
Pl@ntNet (Identify Plants with Pictures)
- https://identify.plantnet.org/
Fungus Identifier (AI based, use with caution!)
- https://fungusid.com/
Mushroom World (Database)
- https://www.mushroom.world/
INaturalist (Social biodiversity network)
- https://www.inaturalist.org/

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

In Norway, Artsorakelet from Artsdatabanken is a good free ID app. It warns you not to trust it enough to eat something because of it, but I've found it very useful to sanity check my own IDs, and get a pointer to things I'm not going to eat anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

PictureThis! app on iOS works good for identifying plants

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

https://flora-on.pt/ My favourite plant identifier, run by a botanical society.
https://mushroomobserver.org/ Mushroom identification by real people.
https://www.wildfooduk.com/

As much as AI can help identify things, it can also be confidently and completely off. Please be cautious and don't rely on AI identification alone. Look up several pictures from botanical and biology pages - because even image search from Google and other large search engines can be off and/or inconsistent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

To add, wild food UK have a YouTube presence that can be really helpful for seeing video rather than photos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Foragingtexas.com has a lot of good information for the state, many of the plants have a much wider distribution as well.