“Foraging is one of the last wild acts of defiance against the concrete world. Humans versus humanoids. It’s a crack in the dam, a chink of light, wild food nourishes your very soul.” – Mo Wilde.

Another great presentation at the GBS. Someone that after being asked numerous times after teaching foraging courses.” Can you live off the land fulltime ,”made the pledge to actually try it. Another book to add to my reading list.

Monica Wilde is a forager, research herbalist, author and ethnobotanist. She lives in West Lothian, Scotland, in a self-built eco house on 4 organic acres, where she encourages medicinal and foraging species to thrive in a wild, teaching garden. She has been teaching foraging formally since 2005.

This special and magical book has changed the way I see the world’ Dan Saladino

‘Inspiration and delight sparkle from every page … This book [is] a revelation of joy to the general reader for whom wild food is another country’ John Wright, author of the River Cottage handbooks

A captivating and lyrical journey into our ancestral past, through what and how we eat.

Mo Wilde made a quiet but radical pledge: to live only off free, foraged food for an entire year. In a world disconnected from its roots, eating wild food is both culinary and healing, social and political. Ultimately, it is an act of love and community. Using her expert knowledge of botany and mycology, Mo follows the seasons to find nutritious food from hundreds of species of plants, fungi and seaweeds, and in the process learns not just how to survive, but how to thrive. Nourishing her body and mind deepens her connection with the earth – a connection that we have become estranged from but which we all, deep down, hunger for.

This hunger is about much more than food. It is about accepting and understanding our place in a natural network that is both staggeringly complex and beautifully simple. THE WILDERNESS CURE is a diary of a wild experiment; a timely and inspiring memoir which explores a deeper relationship between humans and nature, and reminds us of the important lost lessons from our past.

https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-wilderness-cure-mo-wilde/book/9781398508637.html