Table 1.

Themes with corresponding component of vulnerability and sample questions from interview guide

Themes	Example questions
Duration of time an individual has picked for	About how many years have you been bakeapple picking?
Observations of environmental changes at the bakeapple picking grounds (exposure)	Have you noticed changes in the plant species where you pick bakeapples?
	Have you noticed a change in the amount of surface water in the landscape?
	How much variability is there from year to year in the abundance and quality of bakeapples?
	What things have affected how good the bakeapples are in a particular year?
	Has the timing of when pick bakeapples changed from your youth?
Observations of social change related to bakeapple picking (sensitivity)	What importance does bakeapple picking have to you currently as an adult and previously as a child?
	What does an average day of bakeapple picking look like now and as a child?
Observations of economic change related to bakeapple picking (sensitivity)	Do you sell the bakeapples that you pick?
	Have job opportunities impacted your ability to go bakeapple picking?
Technology advances and impact on bakeapple picking (sensitivity)	How do you get to the spots that you bakeapples pick now and is this different from your youth?
The main barriers and reasons for bakeapple picking (adaptive capacity)	What are your greatest barriers to go bakeapple picking? How do you deal with these barrier(s)?
	What are the main reasons that you go bakeapple picking?