Foraging at the edge of Capitalism is a 5-year research project at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.

Our starting point is simple: broadly understood as practices of collecting, scavenging and gleaning, foraging is not something humanity left behind in the neolithic revolution. It is very much a global phenomenon of our times. It takes place in the fuzzy fringes of a global capitalist economic system. Foraging practices feed on capitalism. And they feed it.

To understand and to render visible the resulting layers of ambition, promise, concern and practice is our goal.