How to Find FOOD in the Forest

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Humans are descended from hunters and gatherers. Our brains are hardwired for triggers (stimulus) and rewards because of our ancestors’ reliance on foraging for food. An unfortunate side effect of our industrialized society and the availability of food in grocery stores, foraging has become a bit of a lost art, but thankfully, it’s not that hard to retrain our brains to be on the lookout for food.

Looking at the leaf canopy or the littered forest floor, it’s pretty difficult to see much of anything besides leaves and trees, until you get really specific with your brain about what exactly it is you’re looking for. Take chanterelle mushrooms, for example. I had chanterelles for the first time at my sister’s house seven years ago. She told me she’d found them in the woods. Every time I went in the woods after that, I found myself scanning the forest floor for chanterelles. But I never found any, because I hadn’t given my brain enough information yet to know what to “look for.”

It wasn’t until I’d looked at dozens of pictures of chanterelles online, learned about the different species, their favorite hiding spots, and *when and *where I should be looking. “The woods” wasn’t specific enough. “On north facing slopes, right after a rain in September, near the roots of broadleaf deciduous trees, such as beech and oak” got me a lot closer. And then once I’d found my first one “in the wild,” I suddenly started seeing them EVERYWHERE.

This is because of something known as the Baader Meinhof Phenomenon, or the Frequency Bias.

For more on foraging for mushrooms visit the blog here: https://www.anneofalltrades.com/blog/mushroom-hunting-tips-for-beginners
For a Tennessee foraging guide, visit the blog here: https://www.anneofalltrades.com/blog/Tennessee-foraging-log
And for more on the Baader Meinhof phenomenon, visit the blog here: https://www.anneofalltrades.com/blog/foraging-and-the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon

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