Living Off the Land? - NOT!

[Timelord]

"Living off the land" is a phrase used to define living from what nature provides in the landscape and is not intended to be used for where mankind artificially modifies the land in a farming sense. There will always be a slight crossover where "hunter gatherers" have modified their local habitat, for example by planting berry bushes of edible plants in a suitable environment locally or where they build fish traps in a river or keeping a few small animals as a food source - this is transition behaviour to an agrarian lifestyle. Staying in one spot and seasonally growing your own food is a "farming activity" and is not living off the land, otherwise we could all claim to be indirectly living off the land and the phrase would have no real point. Happy digging.. TL.