The One Year Total Wild Food Experiment

[Ash Blue]

A man called FERGUS DRENNAN will soon be spending a year eating nothing but wild foraged food. I came across his project through WWOOF UK.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll-WgP2jDsU

http://www.indiegogo.com/one-year-total-wild-food

 

[Pholland]

What an exciting project to undertake. Good luck to him.

 

[boatman]

But we know, as he says, that people did this for thousands of years and he will eschew hunting which they certainly did not. Fine if he wants to but so what apart from a personal challenge and probably some interesting reading. If he uses petrol to go from one select area to another without using the energy or time they would have expended in the Mesolithic to get there then what is he proving, finding out? That one can live the foraging life on many many square miles should surprise nobody.

 

[mountainm]

But we know, as he says, that people did this for thousands of years and he will eschew hunting which they certainly did not. Fine if he wants to but so what apart from a personal challenge and probably some interesting reading. If he uses petrol to go from one select area to another without using the energy or time they would have expended in the Mesolithic to get there then what is he proving, finding out? That one can live the foraging life on many many square miles should surprise nobody.

Purely from a gastranomic perspective i'll find it interesting. Variety and flavour will be tricky as he'll be limited to seasonal availability unless he stores...

 

[Night Phoenix]

Hes a wee star! I look forward to this

 

[plastic-ninja]

Fergus "guest tutored" the Woodsmoke Autumn Harvester course I attended.
He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of plants and fungi and is also a charming
and entertaining companion as well as a very professional teacher.
Good luck to him : I shall be following his efforts on Twitter.
Personally I don't care if he is hunting deer with a spear or pot-roasting roadkill badger (as one does!!)
It will be fun to watch and I'm sure we'll all learn something along the way.
Cheers , Simon

 

[thedawnawakens]

Good luck to the fella and good on him for doing this..... I look forward to see how he gets on.
Thanks Ash Blue

 

[Humpback]

I'm going to do an experiment in working full-time for a year obviously this will require my full attention and won't allow time to forage all my food so I will have to rely on supermarket shopping to help me get by

 

[olbugger]

I have got a book somewhere about someone who did something similar to this already a few years ago , maybe Simon someone , anyway you can get it on amazon i think . He did have a minor rules he had to bend as he realised he would need a huge area of land to be able to forage and hunt in order to completely be self sustainable . Very interesting read .