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Urban Harvest

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Guardian Environmental Network

PHOTOS: Urban Foraging in Prospect Park

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Picking plants from your local park and taking them home for dinner is -- forgive us -- a growing trend in cities across the country. So how hard is it to harvest a fresh, free meal from the urban jungle? We asked Leda Meredith, author of The Locavore's Handbook and Botany, Ballet, and Dinner from Scratch, to show us how it's done one recent morning in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. (See "Urban Foraging: From the Local Park to Your Plate.") Here's what we found.

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Kethevane Gorjestani is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism with French, American and Georgian roots. She has a French law degree and a master's degree in journalism from Sciences-Po in Paris. She has interned at th... READ MORE >