PEA-Badge-Foraging

I’m sure the first question you have is how in the world does one practice foraging without leaving an apartment?!  65% of foraging is becoming familiar with what the plant looks like and how to use it.  This badge permits the purchase of the plant and focuses on preparing and eating it.

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Make 6 cups of tea
  - Each from a different species
  - Must be something that is commonly foraged (not something that is rarely foraged)
  - There must be at least one sample of each species that is clearly identifiable
        - This could require more than one purchase/acquisition
  - Can be a twofer with PEP foraging BBs
  - Species can be fresh or dried
        - Sassafrass
        - Spice Bush
        - Wild Ginger
        - Nettle
        - Rose hips
        - Mint
        - Pineapple weed
        - Raspberry leaves
        - Chaga mushrooms
        - Pine needle
        - Fir tip
        - Ceanothus americanus/new jersey tea
        - Kinnikinnick
        - Sumac
        - Linden flower
        - Wild strawberry leaf
        - Fireweed
        - Birch bark/leaves
        - Clover
        - Rose petals
        - Dandelion
        - Bull thistle

Prepare 6 dishes
  - Each from a different category (below)
  - One cup minimum per dish
  - Must be something that is commonly foraged (not something that is rarely foraged)
  - There must be at least one sample of each species that is clearly identifiable
        - This could require more than one purchase/acquisition
  - Categories:
        - Mushrooms
              - Chantrels
              - Puffballs
              - Oyster
              - Hen of the Woods
              - Chicken of the Woods
              - Morels
              - Bouletes
        - Wildflowers
              - Violet
              - Rose
              - Chickory
              - Dandelion
              - Redbud
              - Clover
              - Day lily
        - Leafy greens/moss
              - Reindeer Moss
              - Dandelion
              - Plantain
              - Miner’s Lettuce
              - Purslane
              - Clover
              - Curly Dock
              - Pigweed
        - Plant stems/shoots
              - Purslane
              - Cattail
              - Asparagus (must be foraged)
        - Starchy roots/tubers
              - Dandelion
              - Burdock
              - Chickory Root
              - Wild Potato (must be foraged)
              - Ground Nut
              - Cattail
              - Daylily
        - Fruits/berries
              - Bramble Berries (raspberry, blackberry, etc) (must be foraged)
              - Wild Plum (must be foraged)
              - Wild Persimmon
              - Wild Cherry (must be foraged)
              - Wild Strawberry (must be foraged)
              - Lowbush Blueberry (must be foraged)
              - Wild Cranberry (must be foraged)
              - Serviceberry
              - Huckleberry
              - Banana (must be foraged)
        - Grains/nuts
              - Pigweed
              - Black Walnut
              - Acorns
              - Wild Rice
        - Bulbs
              - Wild Onion (must be foraged)
              - Wild Garlic (must be foraged)
  - Can be a twofer with PEP foraging BBs

Craft 6 pounds of seed balls/bombs
  - At least an inch in diameter
  - Quickly dry for storage (before the seeds germinate)
  - At least six different species in each ball/bomb
        - Possible species:
              - Nettle
              - Dandelion
              - Maple
              - Mulberry
              - Apples
              - Black locust
              - Sepp Holzer grain
              - Daikon radish
              - Alfalfa
              - Tomato
              - Sunflower
              - Lupine
              - Squash
              - Kale
              - Turnip
              - Cherry

Straw

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Wood

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