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Caroline Shearmanamberrenarde
2025-03-25

The Wilderness Cure is an inspiring journey through the wild year while trying to survive on only what could gather or . Definitely one for fellow environmentalists.

Pale cream book cover with a central circle split into five sections. Each section has a colour and different animals and plants representing the different seasons of the foraging year. Titled, 'The Wilderness Cure', written by Mo Wilde. Includes some text at the bottom - "Ancient wisdom in a modern world".This is such an incredible book that I've actually listened to it twice in the space of a month. I'm sure there'll be a third listen soon! 'The Wilderness Cure' is an inspirational touchstone on trying to live in harmony with nature, or at least leave a lighter footprint on this earth. Mo Wilde is a professional herbalist and forager who runs courses and her own clinic from her home. This book is her year of deciding to say 'fk it', one year on Black Friday, and put herself and her skills to the ultimate test. To live entirely on foraged food for a year. Mo, or Monica as she's also known, is such an easy to relate to voice of human connectedness to nature (Gaia). She's worldly wise, down to earth, and very relatably human. Through the year she finds that when it comes to it in her locality there are five seasons, not the traditional four. That the seasonal cycles of animals and plants causes her to work between land and coast to find food at different times. That seasonality for food isn't just eating strawberries in the summer but finds whole macros become seasonal such as carbs are a winter food and summer is more protein. She also finds herself walking in the footsteps of our paleolithic (stone age) ancestors as despite the eons of time between us and them, little has changed in nature and the same cycles that modern hunter-gatherers need to follow still dance on today.

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