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Foraging for Your Food

Locations in this article:  New York City, NY

If you’re looking for a culinary experience that takes you back to nature, how about something known as foraging?

Foraging means you pick the ingredients for your next meal, which guarantees that your food is fresh and local.

WaterColor Inn in Northwest Florida offers a four-day foraging package for $1,500.

Adventurous foodies learn how to harvest honey, go crabbing, and even try something called oyster tonging and flounder gigging.

After all your hard work, chefs prepare your harvested goods into a meal for you.

At the Treetops Luxury Lodge and Estate in New Zealand, a Maori chief helps you forage for edible bites along an indigenous food trail, starting at $185 per person.

And believe it or not, you can actually forage for your food in the middle of New York City.

New York naturalist Steve Brill leads half-day tours around Central Park to help you track down edible plants such as wild garlic, sassafras and mustard greens.

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