ForagingPictures.com is what happens when somebody goes on wild-food walks with a camera for years and then refuses to let the photographs sit in an unlabeled folder.
The site currently indexes 1,581 pictures covering 237 plants and mushrooms. The images came from 30 wild-edible foraging tours in the New York City area led by “Wildman” Steve Brill.
The tour list stretches from 1999 into the 2020s and includes Central Park, Prospect Park, Forest Park, Alley Pond Park, Inwood Park, Cunningham Park, Marine Park, and other locations.
Then the site reorganizes the same observations by plant.
A field notebook turned into relational data
The homepage divides specimens into edible, medicinal, inedible, poisonous, edible mushrooms, and inedible mushrooms.
The edible section alone lists more than a hundred plants, often with scientific names. The poisonous category sits on the same page rather than being politely hidden elsewhere, which is important when the subject is putting unidentified vegetation into your mouth.
The site also generates tables showing where plants were found and how many appeared on each tour.
That makes it more useful than a photo gallery.
A visitor can approach the archive by season, location, trip, species, or broad use category. The structure preserves context around each photograph: not merely what does this plant look like? but where and when did somebody encounter it?
The result resembles a long-running citizen field notebook.
It also shows a nice old-web trait: the archive keeps accumulating without throwing away its earlier organizational logic. A 1999 outing and a 2024 outing can live in the same plain index.
CacheRat’s 1,967 Ancient Web Domains research list includes hand-built scientific and hobby references because their value often comes from patient accumulation rather than presentation.
Foraging Pictures is exactly that.
Thirty walks become 1,581 photographs.
The photographs become a reference.