Hiking trail nettles, anyone?
How about some side-of-the-road chickweed?
Meet the latest cutting-edge munch, the CSF box. That's Community Supported Forging, in which the contents of your bi-weekly or monthly box are foraged and gleaned rather than grown and harvested. Which, a) puts them at very near zero on the carbon emissions scale, and b) means that they pack that still-on-the-stalk flavor punch.
Founded by Iso Rabins, the self-acknowledged child of Santa Cruz hippies, Forage SF is a retro-pioneer, returning city dwellers to their distant hunter-gatherer (or at least fisher-gather) past with a very contemporary business model. Rabins and his foragers collect mushrooms, greens, herbs, and fruit from public land around the San Francisco Bay Area, throw in fresh local fish, box it, and sell it. They also invite local landowners to forage their own land, or allow it to be foraged, and pocket 50% of the profits.
Got a lemon tree that won't quit, a rosemary bush gone bazoongas, or fennel up the wazola? Rabins will turn it into cash, or trade for other foraged goods. Or perhaps you'd prefer to be on the receiving end of nature's bounty. In fresh-and-local-crazed NorCal, Forage SF has plenty of takers, including prominent local chefs. Chez Panisse buys the mushrooms.
The merely curious, or fungi-phobic, can start with the Baby Box, with a manageably introductory allotment of greens and fruit, and no shrooms. For fish fiends, there's the Pescatarian Box, including locally caught whatever, and fungiphiles can opt for Mushrooms and More. All boxes include wild-crafted products such as teas, ice cream, and even soap.
Any way you box it, it's totally, totally wild.
Go glean at forage SF.