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Hey fellow Rewilders


Here's an awesome site with huge potential for foraging communities:

www.forage.rs

From the site:
"Forage.rs is a collaborative map of edible and useful wild plants. Plants added to the map are linked to information about how they can be used, photographs, stories, and recipes added by other users.

This project aims to lower the barrier to going out foraging by encouraging people to share their knowledge of where useful plants can be found, and how they can be used.

We hope that providing a graphical illustration of the abundance of edible and useful wild plants growing around us will encourage more people to learn about the plants that form the basis of our culinary and craft traditions."


I don't want to try advertise, but I think that this site may be really helpful for all you tech-savvy foragers out there who don't mind sharing


Cheers !

anti_

Welcome Robb

Just wondering if there's any of you around >.>

My vision is very similar to Dan's.

Though, I don't have any plans or anything concrete like that. The first thing that comes to mind when someone asks me is just a community. Something of just a subsistence level. No working for money to buy the things you need, you just go out into your landbase and grab what you need. Or the things that will enable you to get what you need.

Simplicity. Freedom. Just notions like that are what come to my mind. Don't know what they are, but I'd know if it I saw it.

this

TimeLESS and Bill.

For sure, I always refer to my "Predator eyes" and "predator ears" as if in hunting for something... sounds silly without context... yea as TimeLESS views is. I believe myself to be an animal, I don't have a 'race'

General rules for bugs:

If it has more than 6 legs DONT EAT IT.

If it has a stinger, remove and BOIL IT to neutralize the poison, but even then some still have reactions.

Remove anything that can poke or cut... so legs and wings should go.. remember  it's the "juicy stuff" inside that you are really after..  not the puny legs.

It's too easy to find other bugs..  best to stick to them.

You can eat bugs individually, but they are easier to eat and usually taste better if you throw them in to a soup or stew..  Maggots cook up just like rice.. you'll never notice the difference....  Add some roots and you'll think it's storebaught stew.

Eassier than bugs.. try worms... boiled earthworms are just like pasta noodles, and pretty east to dig, high in protein, and taste good once cooked. remember to "milk" them by squeesing out the poop.

You've really been offering some interesting incite into some of the questions asked around here, but I have seen MANY videos of people who are still wild eating things like tarantulas and such, obviously catching and cooking before eating.

As per most things there are always the exception... I've questioned my entire upbringing and thus, I question everything. >.>

My best trick for Skeeters: Don't smack them.  They're like little syringes and when you smack them, that's what makes the bites itchy and swollen.  Just calmly wipe them off, or just don't think about them.  This actually works!  I remember these old-timers in Maine used to just have skeeters sucking on their face and it didn't bother them at all!  After a while, they just don't leave itchy bites.

Yep that's right.  Mozzys cause the release of Histamine which I've read that the cells that release this substance are affected  by thought and can be "mind over mattered"

Quote from: anti_ on January 21, 2009, 07:40:11 PM

So i got to thinking, I'm almost full Norwegian blooded  and wondered if my ancestors,  might have had a lot to do with it, existing in an extremely cold climate for such a long period of time our bodies may have adapted to being able to survive in the cold better.

just a weird thought...

Not so weird, actually. Europeans (and, ai'm sure, other northern peoples) adapted several strategies to avoid freezing that are simply not found among tropical peoples (such as Africans). Ex.: when the fingers get too cold, blood is pumped in "waves" or "pulses" through them, in order to keep the blood from forming ice crystals that were too extensive - thus avoiding frostbite and blood clots that other people would develop in the same conditions (doesnt last forever, obviously). Also, diabetes conditions (so ai read) are actually an adaptation to freezing conditions - like saltwater, blood tempered with lots of sugar freezes at a much lower temp.

ah wow thats pretty sweet