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Forager Alexis Nikole Nelson Wants You to Go Outside
The Columbus resident is using social media to spread the gospel of wild food and it’s working.
Columbus Monthly
Alexis Nikole Nelson is fond of saying she’s been eating food off the ground since she was a kid. While it sounds like a funny “kids do the darndest things” moment, it’s true in Nelson’s case. And she remembers her first experience with wild food clearly.
She was 5 years old, running around her mom’s garden in Cincinnati with her “tiny trowel, digging in the dirt,” when her mom introduced her to onion grass. The grass, which grows in tall, thin tubes, is considered an invasive weed and also an edible one. It has a distinct onion smell and is similar in look and taste to chives.