updated 5mo ago
The Wilderness Cure
Foraging is an epigenetic Post-it note on our genes that we all share. It defines us as simply ‘human’. Whether we just pick a handful of hairy bittercress to add to a city park salad, or a bonanza banquet of autumnal wild mushrooms, it is one of the last wild acts of defiance against the concrete world.
from The Wilderness Cure by Mo Wilde
Ethnobotanical research shows that many hunter-gatherer communities tuck into anything from 100 to 350 species over the course of a year.
from The Wilderness Cure by Mo Wilde
I’ve spent a lot of time pondering the question of where we chose to settle by using the Megalithic Portal app from megalith.co.uk and Andy Burnham’s lovely book The Old Stones.
from The Wilderness Cure by Mo Wilde
So I decide to bake the salmon on a bed of fresh yarrow leaves to stop it sticking to the pot.
from The Wilderness Cure by Mo Wilde
marsh woundwort tubers,
from The Wilderness Cure by Mo Wilde
Amongst fungi there are over 36,000 genders – some of us are just coming to terms with the fact that humans may have more than two!
from The Wilderness Cure by Mo Wilde
We managed to survive for millennia without knowing what a vitamin was – let alone a calorie.
from The Wilderness Cure by Mo Wilde
hogweed leaves.
from The Wilderness Cure by Mo Wilde
Last weekend I made some excellent mustard by soaking a handful of wild black mustard seeds in a vinegar home-made from fermenting small, sharp, hard feral apples.
from The Wilderness Cure by Mo Wilde
Logan, A. C., Katzman, M. A., and Balanzá-Martínez, V. (2015). ‘Natural environments, ancestral diets, and microbial ecology: is there a modern “paleo-deficit disorder”?’ Part II. Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 34(1), 1–21.
from The Wilderness Cure by Mo Wilde