The loss of plant knowledge in our culture is not accidental.
A population that knows how to feed and heal itself from the living world is a population that is more self-reliant and less dependent on the state.
Dependence is the mechanism by which the corporate-state maintains its control over your life.
The very act of foraging is a political act because it transforms simply learning plant knowledge as a hobby and turns it into a small quiet act of reclaiming your life.
What else might you know by now if your schooling had prioritised direct ecological literacy?