Bright Side With Tekneshia

JJ Murphy is a wild edibles forager on a mission to change the understanding of healthy eating. Her goal is to raise awareness of the delicious foods that are  quite literally all around us and available for free.  JJ’s foraging philosophy is simple: savor the abundance of edibles nature  provides us each season of the year. Take only what you need, as gently as  possible, doing no harm to the environment. After earning a Masters degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of  Kansas, she moved to New York City and began writing about food and the  environment. Her articles have appeared in the publications Wildness  ! ! ! ! ! ! Magazine, Outdoors Unlimited, and Spores Illustrated.  JJ now writes The Joyful Forager column for the Shawangunk Journal in New York’s Hudson Valley and is  working on her first cookbook. Her ebook, Joyful Foraging: Learn How To Feast On The Food Growing All Around  You, is available for purchase on her website, TheJoyfulForager.com. Ms. Murphy regularly forages i