Urban Forager to Live On Wild Food For Thanksgiving Week in Portland

From Friday Nov. 20 through Thanksgiving dinner on Nov. 26, urban forager Rebecca Lerner will attempt to survive exclusively on wild food. There will be no Dumpster diving, mooching from gardens or picking from cultivated fruit trees. The unusual menu will include thistle, sumac, dandelion and other weeds; fat she gathered from a roadkill deer; the root vegetable wapato; acorns, chestnuts, hazelnuts and black walnuts harvested from city trees; mushrooms; stinging nettles; hawthorn berries; dock seeds; cleavers, and crab apples.