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Show Us What You Are Hauling On Your Bike

 
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Just ordered a couple Lectric Expedition Cargo bikes. looking forward to comparing them with the Rad Cargo bike. 150 mile range and 450 lb cargo capacity will be fun putting it through the paces.  
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HEY!
well straw.
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I gathered this little bunch of dogbane along a roadside yesterday for fiber. I wish there were bigger patches around, but they like drier soils than are usually found around here. I feel like they might be abundant in the Green Mountain highlands, but that’s a bit further. In places like abused hillside hayfields, they’re often very stout and not at all suitable for fiber. I’m still somewhat new to transportation by bicycle, but this thread has been a great inspiration so far. Mostly that is because there is not much bike culture here.  Whenever I am going down the main road, where it goes through the valley, people gawk, their expressions saying, “What?? A BICYCLE?” And that’s when I’m not dragging dogbane.
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I do much of my foraging via bike. It makes it way easier than walking to bring in huge hauls of wild food. I dont drive and like to minimize fuel usage,but besides these reasons I have found many advantages of a bike over car for foraging. It is way easier to spot wild food along roadsides by bike, and way easier to slow down and park. A bike is definitely my #1 foraging tool. I dont have any pics of my bike, as i dont bring a phone when I forage, but here is some food i brought in by bike today:
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Daphne Rose wrote:I do much of my foraging via bike. It makes it way easier than walking to bring in huge hauls of wild food. I dont drive and like to minimize fuel usage,but besides these reasons I have found many advantages of a bike over car for foraging. It is way easier to spot wild food along roadsides by bike, and way easier to slow down and park. A bike is definitely my #1 foraging tool. I dont have any pics of my bike, as i dont bring a phone when I forage, but here is some food i brought in by bike today:


I agree. It's easy to spot fruits or nuts from the bike.
If you can zoom in on this photo you can see what I saw riding along a bicycle path:

An abandoned orchard with apples and pears!
Here in the thread about apple sauce you see what I picked and what I made.
 
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