{"id":4876,"date":"2016-05-31T13:29:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T11:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=4876"},"modified":"2016-05-31T13:30:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T11:30:37","slug":"leading-the-way-of-a-new-generation-of-edible-plant-hunters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=4876","title":{"rendered":"Leading the way of a new generation of edible-plant hunters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I wouldn&#8217;t really claim to be the leader, as that must be Paul Barney of Edulis nursery in the UK!! However, I do believe that the emphasis\u00a0of plant hunting expeditions should\u00a0change to greater focus\u00a0on\u00a0edible and useful plants, rather than just ornamentals. After all, more than 50% of members of the Royal Horticultural Society in the UK state that edible gardening is most important to them and all of them EAT!<\/p>\n<p>This article was written by my friend Joan Bailey who lives, works and gardens outside of Tokyo and has a nice blog:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanfarmersmarkets.com\">http:\/\/www.japanfarmersmarkets.com<\/a><br \/>\nShe was also the first to review my book for Permaculture Magazine:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.permaculture.co.uk\/book-reviews\/around-world-80-plants\">http:\/\/www.permaculture.co.uk\/book-reviews\/around-world-80-plants<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">W<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">e met for a chat early in April 2016 on the day we visited the underground Udo caverns\u00a0in Tachikawa, a suburb of Tokyo (I still have to blog about that amazing day!). The picture Joan used of me in the article shows me with the\u00a0underground udo farmer!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metropolisjapan.com\/more-than-cherry-blossoms\/\">http:\/\/metropolisjapan.com\/more-than-cherry-blossoms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Joan!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I wouldn&#8217;t really claim to be the leader, as that must be Paul Barney of Edulis nursery in the UK!! However, I do believe that the emphasis\u00a0of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4876","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4879,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4876\/revisions\/4879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}