juellez / forager

inspired by UrbanEdibles.org - the next course

FORAGER

Inspired by UrbanEdibles.org - the next course.

Resources & Research

A quick roundup of related datasets, communities, resources, etc.

DATA & MAPS

• UrbanEdibles - source code
• Urban Forest Map, San Fran
• ProjectNoah
• Arkive
• FallingFruit

AWARENESS

• Urban Forest Project
• Million Trees, NYC

GROUPS & CLASSES

• Oregon Mycological Society
• Muschoom Hunting
• First Ways
• Wild Food Adventures
• Trackers Northwest
• Nature Connection

GET AN APP

• “Foraging for Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants” — interactive app from “Wildman” Steve Brill due out this month (wildmanstevebrill.com)
• ProjectNoah

PRESS & MORE RESOURCES

• http://www.oregonlive.com/mix/index.ssf/how-to/field-guide-to-foraging-in-the-northwest.html
• http://edibleportland.com/2012/03/wild-food-foraging-resources/

Running Forager

This section will need some love as I have many scattered notes. It's currently a Meteor app that runs swell locally but has never deployed successfully to Meteor. In addition to the required NPM packages listed in packages.json, there are 2 meteorite packages required as listed in smart.json: filpicker & geoimager. To work locally, packages directory should look like:

packages - filepicker - geoimager - node_modules - gm - request - npm

Todos

It's a long list. In no particular order, the basics:

• Convert a geo-tagged image into an editable edible record, complete with name and additional information (attach it).
• Default map to "my" location. Filter by season, category, etc.
• Stretch: Export/share with FallingFruit. (Chat w/those folks to see if they're interested.)

License

GNU GPL - see http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0 for full license details.