Making a name for herself as the ‘Black Forager’, Alexis Nikole Nelson has amassed a loyal and notable following for her popular forging expeditions on Tik Tok and Instagram. Ending most of her posts with cheerful pluck and aplomb (“Don’t die!”) she is as entertaining as she is enlightening, sprinkling scientific names and information among more friendly explanations on how to forage. It ties back to a deeper and more profound connection to the land, and to a history of Black and Indigenous people and their relationship to the land. She earns this Dazzler of the Day for bringing foraging nearer to the mainstream, and getting me to try making tea from my own backyard.
