Living Off the Land? - NOT!

[Mortblanc]

While I do not plan on "living off the land", foraging wild eatables is a part of my long term plan.

That plan being for me to stretch my food stocks for as long as possible by not being picky and adding the odd bit of greens from the hedgerow, and peeling the skin off trash birds taken with the pellet rifle rather than opening another can of Spam or veggies. It is the true definition of foraging and has been practice by small farmers and tenants for thousands of years, both legally and illegally.

The deer that cross my plot are reserve food supply as well as the fish in the nearby lake and the rabbits in the hedgerows. Smoking and drying the meat from surplus critters is knowledge I have gained and nothing will go to waste from spoilage as the article proposes.

While the article is emphasizing that "living off the land" as a total survival philosophy is a great cultural myth, which it is, the points they are using are flawed.

It seems that of late we are getting flooded with useless cut and paste articles written by people that do not know what they are talking about.