Sentences with phrase «collected wild plants»

Before farming arrived in Britain six thousand years ago, people collected wild plants and hunted wild animals, birds and fish to eat.

From the age of 5, she roamed the mountains with her sister to collect wild plants to eat.

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SoupAddict had also collected the coriander seeds (foreground) from several cilantro plants she let go wild during the summer.

Or you can collect your own seeds by finding unsprayed plants in the wild and bringing home some of the tiny black seeds in your pocket.

When foraging for wild fennel don't collect from the roadside or other locations where the plants are exposed to car exhaust or dogs.

The garden is nestled in the foothills of the Mayacamas Mountains, and planted with rare and endangered species grown from seed, which was collected from the wild in East Asia.

Meanwhile, botanists like Stuppy put a new spin on the tradition of seed collecting at the Kew gardens» Millennium Seed Bank, an international repository for plant species threatened with extinction in the wild.

«If exposure to low levels of pesticide affects their ability to learn, bees may struggle to collect food and impair the essential pollination services they provide to both crops and wild plants.»

To test whether a partial loss of plant - derived dietary fiber would result in a partial loss of native gut microbes, the authors also collected fecal samples from a semi-captive population of red - shanked doucs who lived in a sanctuary and received about half of the normal variety of plants eaten by wild doucs.

Others ventured further north, where they continued to rely on the wild animals they killed and the plants and berries they collected from the landscape.

Although total numbers of trade posts are relatively small, the high proportion of wild collected orchids for sale supports calls for better monitoring of social media for trade in wild collected plants and other traded wildlife.

Margaret Miller of the US National Marine Fisheries Services now leads an experiment out of Aquarius that is comparing the success of corals that are planted out from the nursery with others grown in an aquarium, or collected and transplanted from two wild sites.

Caution should be exercised in collecting this weed in the wild, because when growing in heavily fertilised agricultural fields the plant can accumulate dangerously high concentrations of nitrates.

Learn how to collect, prepare, and utilize 100 + wild plants of the western mountains.

I'll give you one uncommon one, I like to go outdoors and have a wild plant book to identify the plants I collect, of course the photos need to be in colour.

Gene banks hold hundreds of thousands of seeds and tissue culture materials collected from farmers» fields and from wild, ancestral populations, providing the raw material that plant breeders need to create crops of the future.

Soon collecting wild grass seeds evolved into planting and reaping crops, which reduced people's intake of proteins and vitamins, but brought ample calories, survival and fertility.