PEM badge: Foraging

Foraging
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This badge is about foraging, hunting, trapping, and fishing... with some forage gardening sprinkled in.  Must be wild foods - not gleaning or harvesting from an actively cultivated space.

Apples from a neighbor don’t count here.   Apples from a homestead that has been abandoned for at least five years do count.  Apples oddly growing in a place where there has never been any cultivation counts too (probably a discarded apple core led to the tree).   Apples that are the result of forage gardening count too as long as they aren't in a maintained space (city park, parking lot border, etc).

Sand badge

Fresh list - harvest one of:
   - 1 lb of small berries (smaller than 5/16" in diameter)
   - 2 lbs of large berries
   - 2 lbs of tubers or roots
   - 2 lbs of mushrooms
   - 20 lbs of nuts (in the shell)
   - 20 lbs of fruit

Dry list - harvest, dry, and store one of the following:
   - The same foraged food can not be used for both the Fresh and Dry list
   - 1/2 lb of leaves (mints, ramps, tea fodder, herbs)
   - 1 lb of small berries (smaller than 1/4" in diameter)
   - 2 lbs of large berries
   - 2 lbs of mushrooms
   - 20 lbs of fruit

Make a cup of tea from foraged materials
Prepare a dish using a cup of foraged materials
4 pounds of seed balls/bombs  
   -  at least an inch in diameter, 6 species and at least 4 have to be perennials

Complete two different items from the following list:
   - Catch and prepare at least one pound of fish
   - Catch and prepare at least one pound of shellfish
   - Catch and prepare one wild rabbit
   - Catch and prepare one squirrel
   - harvest maple sap and reduce it down to make 1 pint of syrup
   - do 2 different BBs from the dry list  
   - do 2 different BBs from the fresh list

Straw badge  

35 points required

Fresh list:
   - If you wanted to get the Sand and Straw BBs for tubers you need to forage 22 pounds total
   - 10 lbs of small berries (smaller than 1/4" in diameter) - 4 points
   - 20 lbs of large berries - 4 points
   - 20 lbs of tubers - 4 points
   - 20 lbs of mushrooms - 4 points
   - 200 lbs of nuts (in the shell) - 4 points
   - 200 lbs of fruit - 4 points

Dry list - harvest, dry, and store one of the following:
   - The same foraged food can not be used for both the Fresh and Dry list
   - 5 lbs of leaves (mints, ramps, tea fodder, herbs) - 4 points
   - 10 lbs of small berries (smaller than 1/4" in diameter)  - 4 points
   - 20 lbs of large berries - 4 points
   - 20 lbs of mushrooms - 4 points
   - 200 lbs of fruit - 4 points

Catch and prepare one grouse - 2 points
Catch and prepare one wild turkey - 2 points
Catch and prepare one wild duck - 2 points
Catch and prepare one wild goose - 2 points
Catch and prepare one medium/large bird not already on this list - 2 points
Catch and prepare one small to medium sized mammal not already in this badge (raccoon, opossum, etc) - 2 points
20 pounds of seed balls/bombs - 4 points
  - Unlimited duplication with different species each time
Save seeds from 6 species of wild plants - 2 points
  - Unlimited duplication with different species each time
Catch, butcher and preserve at least five pounds of fish(es) or ten pounds of shellfish - 4 points
Catch, butcher and preserve five wild rabbits/squirrels - 4 points
Catch, butcher and preserve one large mammal (deer, pig, elk, antelope, etc) - 8 points
Harvest maple sap and reduce it down to make 1 gallon of syrup - 8 points
Collect 5 pounds of wild honey (without cutting down tree) - 4 points
Guerilla plant 500 woody perennial food seeds or cuttings (not seed bombs) - 8 points

Wood badge

Forage 200,000 calories from at least 10 species
   - 6 species of at least 10,000 calories each
        - No more than 4 of the 6 can be animal species
   - At least half of the calories need to be dried for storage that could last more than a year at room temp - possible twofer with Food Prep and Preservation
10 days eating 90% foraged food
   - 90% by calories, a minimum of 1200 calories per day and at least 6 foraged food types per day
   - Can include preserved foraged foods and they don't need to be consecutive days
1 mile of trail side forage gardening
   - Grow more than 500 plants near a trail and harvest calories from at least 6 different species

Iron badge

Forage 1,600,000 calories from at least 20 species
90 days eating 90% foraged food
   - Includes one 30 day stretch and four 7 day stretches
1 mile of extensive trail side forage gardening
   - Grow more than 5000 plants, at least 12 species and harvest 50,000 calories from the plantings