The Wilderness Cure

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June 2022: The Wilderness Cure by Mo Wilde: Part 2. Mo Wilde, author of The Wilderness Cure, talks about the year she spent eating only wild food with Ken Greenway at Tower Hamlets Cemetery. June 2022: Mo Wilde on The Wilderness Cure: Ancient Wisdom in a Modern World. Mo Wilde, author of The Wilderness Cure, talks about the year she spent eating only wild food I always consider that I eat seasonally and to some extent I do, but reading about Mo’s experience it made me reconsider whether my diet is that seasonal after all. I might eat salad in the summer and soups and stews in the winter, but carbs feature all year round. Yet in northern climes the wild carbs can be very limited except in the autumn months. If I want to tame my weight should I become more seasonal with carbs, proteins and fats ? Mo has tested her microbiome throughout the book and to me this is of particular interest. I look forward to hearing more about this from Mo in the future, but it was really interesting to note that her microbiome changed dramatically through the year. It's fascinating to watch. Winter - with no special preparation, no stores - is tough. This is Scotland, there are limited resources, and yet, somehow, she makes it through. Spring is easier, summer - surprisingly - is hard again - autumn is bountiful.

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I have a keen interest in the different ways that people live and I collect stories and fables from traditional peoples across the world. I have also had the good fortune to have run talks and workshops in West Africa, the Caribbean, Scandinavia as well as the UK. Career The almost-daily catalogue of her diet, and how she acquires it is interspersed with her meditations on the seasons, local wildlife and plants, archaeological and anthropological studies on present-day and ancient hunter-gatherer societies, her activities during this time (including a 36-hour home birth, a holiday in Orkney, and a trip to Eastern Europe), and the inevitable lament over the destruction we have done to our wonderful planet. I recommend this book to anyone who likes memoirs and especially those which explore nature, health and the environment. This book sits on my mental bookshelf alongside others such as Wilding by Isabella Tree, Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard, The Wild Remedy by Emma Mitchell and many others. That said, I'm not convinced the idea of The Wilderness Cure is to turn us all into foragers so much as making us take a look at our relationship with the food we eat and where it comes from. It is so much more than a book about foraging. It is a book about the environment and about our health, about our place on this fragile planet of ours and about food, about community and our social history.The writing is beautifully descriptive; however, I did find it a little repetitive in places (we’re told several times at the start that she won’t eat butter) and I also felt that it was a little ‘preachy’ in places too, which was off-putting at times. Further to this, I think that some people might be put off by the many extraneous historical details, but I really, really enjoyed them (especially as I live near to the areas being described).

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Angsty: At times, you might feel lost, and begin to wonder what life is all about. A dose of awe might remind you just how wondrous the world is. Nature provides trees that were hundreds of years old before you were even born, towering mountains that touch the clouds and a sky full of uncountable stars. When it comes to awe-inspiring awesomeness, nature leaves our jaws dropping and spines tingling, and rekindles the realization that we’re a tiny part of an incredible universe. What’s more powerful than that? As my school careers advisor never mentioned that you could actually study to be a Medical Herbalist, I went off the art college. It seemed a lot more exciting than being a secretary! In the early 1980s I was a scenic artist at the Royal National Theatre London, before emigrating to the West Indies to screen print T-shirts on the beach! Returning to the U.K. in 1995, I worked in branding, corporate communications and marketing, invented coloured flame birthday cake candles, and added to life experience with a stint as Operations Director in the gift industry. As a single parent bringing up three children I was prepared to turn my hand to anything. I had to stop regularly to look up plants – even common ones like plantain or alexanders. It felt like I was being invited to explore a whole new world. In the book Mo steers a careful path between giving us facts – the plants eaten, the animals respectfully taken as part of the diet – and her own process. I’d have liked to know more about her feelings and struggles but if she’d gone down that route the book would have been even longer.Mo Wilde's story of foraging for food and medicine is an inspiration to us all. She brings home the need so many of us have for the wild redeemer as a part of our diet and our lives." Stephen Harrod Buhner, author of the bestselling Herbal Antibiotics and Earth Grief: The Journey Into and Through Ecological Loss Coloured by the author’s wit, fascination and enthusiasm for foraging and actual attempt at accomplishing her year long goal, the book held my attention straight away. And I felt an instant connection with the author and her ‘jump in at the deep end’ kind of style to confronting her goal. Thank you for reading and reviewing the book. I always recommend one of the excellent field guides already published on plants or fungi to help with identification. One book is never big enough! :) Wilde speaks of the different seasons, and the various foraging foods that are available during that time. She speaks of the wildlife that is present on her searches, and how going without a certain amount of vitamins or minerals can have a large impact on our bodies. She regularly talks of mushrooms, and eats many of them on her challenge. I personally love mushrooms, and I found it interesting to learn of the various types. I think the only item she ate that I wouldn't be able to is pigeon. I just couldn't go there.

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Capaldi C, Dopko RL, Zelenski J. The relationship between nature connectedness and happiness: a meta-analysis. Frontiers in Psychology. 2014. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00976. The journal style made the experience feel very immediate and I loved to travel through each day and season with her. It allowed us to experience her ups and downs, which made me want to read on. April 2022: YouTube. Lyme Disease: The New Great Imitator by Monica Wilde. The role of integrative medicine in the management of persistent Lyme disease symptoms.This book is a record of the author’s decision to eat only food foraged from the wild for a year. Wilde is generally vegetarian, but recognises that to have enough calories in the winter she will have to eat meat and fish; these are hunted or fished by friends. The modern way we live has changed radically from life in the savanna, but our brains have mostly stayed the same. We still have a deep connection with nature, and research shows that if we don’t nourish that bond despite our technological advancements, we may suffer in many ways. 1 I should start this review by saying I don’t really understand what the big fuss is about food. Yes it keeps us alive and is required for fuel but beyond that I have very little interest. If I could take one pill a day that gave me everything I needed rather than have to eat meals I would. It maybe seems very odd therefore that I would choose to read something about food, however the blurb of this did make me curious to know how this experiment of sorts would change the author and their own view of food, fuel and things relating to this.

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I have been fascinated by herbs and plants since childhood. My original interest was sparked by a wild childhood in Kenya, where I was introduced to herbal medicine by a local Kikuyu herbalist at the age of six. We were outdoors most of the time and I remember with joy the freedom of those early years. I love foraging for wild food as well as wild medicine and would happily never visit a supermarket again. My childhood covered four continents and I also had a childhood fascination with the traditions and medicines of American Indians. When I was 9, I was sent to boarding school and fondly remember ‘Mima’, my ‘adopted’ grandmother who rescued me for weekends and taught me the herbs of the Sussex countryside, and my aunt who collected lichens and plants to dye sheep’s wool for spinning. I think a lot of us would like to think we eat seasonally and locally, but this book showed me that there's a lot more I could be doing to tread more lightly on the earth. One scene from the book has had a profound impact on me - when Mo floats the idea of making a video to encourage people to eat organic food. She proposes making a gorgeous dinner full of organic produce, then placing it in front of people who aren't convinced of the benefits organic food, along with a shot glass of the legal amounts of pesticide and herbicide that you'd typically ingest with non-organic food, to pour over their food like a dressing. What a brilliant idea. I think such a video would go viral and have an incredible impact. Mo, if you're reading, crowd-fund for this video to be made! The Wilderness Cure by Mo Wilde is an inspirational and fascinating journal encouraging us to disconnect from our phones and reconnect with nature and our ancestral past by foraging for foods that will help us thrive rather than merely survive.

A little bit of blurb : 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. Stressed: Nature presents scenes that gently capture your attention instead of suddenly snatching it, calming your nerves instead of frazzling them. 3 The Wilderness Cure is an immensely readable book, whether you're sold on the idea of foraging or not doesn't really matter as there is still plenty to take away. Predominately a diary of how the author lived for a year consuming wild food that she foraged and bartered for with friends and neighbours but there are a few personal anecdotes in the book that provide humour and entertainment.