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For Roushanna Gray, False Bay’s vast kelp forests are a powerful source of sustenance, both for the earth and ourselves, and while the average visitor might look at these underwater jungles and see only one kind of kelp, Gray sees an abundance of food.
Gray’s company, Veld & Sea, offers full-day coastal foraging workshops and leads excursions to harvest wild food like sea snails, mussels, and seaweed from what she calls an “edible landscape.”
These immersive tours lead visitors and locals through kelp forests and tidal pools to gather materials which are then prepared into nutritional dishes rich in taste, culture, and history.
“There are over nine hundred species here, and only one is inedible,” says Gray.
Veld & Sea tours, she says, help people refamiliarise themselves with this ancestral wisdom and connect back to nature while building stewardship and respect for the local environment.
“Foraging is the physical act of searching for and harvesting wild food for sustenance. For most of human existence we’ve sustained ourselves through this skill.”
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