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03/29/11, 08:36 PM
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Anyone try or think it's possible???
Just wondering if anyone has tried or if anyone thinks it would be possible to survive on only wild edibles??? I want to give it a shot and was just wondering if anyone else has tried it or if anyone does it??
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03/29/11, 08:40 PM
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Been years but I have done it.You would be surprised.
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There was that dude who moved to Alaska and died doing it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McCandless
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03/29/11, 08:44 PM
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Everybody was doing it a few thousand years ago. I guess it was a fad.
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03/29/11, 09:00 PM
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samual thaer has a couple books you would find great reads. Its all about wild edables.
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03/29/11, 09:11 PM
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It all depends of where you live. I was doing it for 3 weeks in Panama and gained weight. But I also had meat added to my diet. If you are talking about wiled editable plants sure you can do it for some time but without meat for protein you will get sick in about 2 or 3 months.Even the vegetarians today have to have a source of protein and you will not find it in plants that grow wild.
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meat is an edible, right?
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03/29/11, 09:39 PM
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Feed it to a dairy goat and drink the milk. You can survive quite well on mostly goat milk. A few berries and some greens and nuts for variety would be nice too.
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03/29/11, 09:52 PM
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"It all depends of where you live"
I live on Long Island in New York... In my yard I have dandelions and wild scallions.... Nearby is a park and Cattails grow there.... Haven't really noticed other wild edibles around.... I'm sure there are more just haven't noticed them yet....
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Know the area your scavenging. It's one thing eating roots, berries, cattails, etc. in some areas, and not others. I don't hesitate to pop things in my mouth off my local area. I know where old oil wells were located, and those are about the only areas where there might be some contaminants.
I'd not nibble in cities, lots, parks, or any place where there's even a remote possibility of previous industrial contamination. I hear those really 'neat and trimmed' areas, called yards are toxic wastelands (all the fertilizers/chemicals/poisons).
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Look at the books from Euwell Gibbons (the former 'Grape Nuts' cereal spokesperson), such as 'Stalking The Wild Asparagus'.
I am wondering if the OP is gonna go after mushrooms??
If so, make darned sure you know what is edible!!! Every year, several folks die from eating poisonous fungi.... If they do survive, then they wind up on a waiting list for liver transplants..
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03/30/11, 06:48 AM
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It's easy to do for a few days, much harder to do for months on end. Especially during winter and such.
People did it for most of human history. People didn't live all that long either.
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03/30/11, 08:41 AM
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I have not done it, but I am confident I could, at the best times, and for a few days or possibly weeks. Hunter gatherers did it for thousands of years. But it gets pretty hard in winter. It is not something you can do on very little land, like your lot. I would guess your wild onions and dandilions would be gone in a couple of days. There was a reason that hunter gatherers are pretty much nomadic throughout history. It takes a lot of land to feed a person, and a lot more if its is severely impacted like Long Island. And you are not going to be able to do it for any significant length of time preparing what you find in a lot of books. Think nibbling grasshoppers and crawfish for protien. And living through a winter with not enough vegetable material and fruit to keep you healthy. Or eating the contents of the small intestines of rabbits and deers for vegetable material. Not as easy as a lot of people like to believe for a sustained period of time.
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We eat many wild edibles all the time.
Weeds from the garden: purslane, dandelions, lambs quarter, pigweed
A variety of wild mushrooms including sulfur shelf, lobster, puffpalls, and morels
We love wild rice and it grows abundantly around here.
99% of our red meat is venison, not to mention the ever present grouse, turkeys, ducks, and geese.
We are within 10 minutes of a dozen fishing lakes.
Yes, it would be possible to survive on wild edibles in our area. The native Americans did 100 or so years ago.
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You would LOVE Euell Gibbons! He did just what you are wanting to do.
He wrote a lot of books about what was good wild food and how to cook them so that they were tasty. You might note that he did not eat just cat tails and greens: he also gathered shell fish and such.
His book "Stalking the Wild Asparagus" was pretty good.
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Originally Posted by NewYorkRebel
"It all depends of where you live"
I live on Long Island in New York... In my yard I have dandelions and wild scallions.... Nearby is a park and Cattails grow there.... Haven't really noticed other wild edibles around.... I'm sure there are more just haven't noticed them yet....
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Cabin Fever, what is a "Lobster Mushroom"?
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If you live far out east on LI, you can pretty much disregard some of the comments here. Most don't really know that eastern LI is mostly farm land, woods and marshes. I used to live on the north shore and there were lots of good wild edibles everywhere.
You could live for a while that way, but ultimately you are going to need protein. If you could augment your foraging with some of that good LI fish...you'd be in business! Winter is another matter.
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03/30/11, 11:03 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kirkmcquest
If you live far out east on LI, you can pretty much disregard some of the comments here. Most don't really know that eastern LI is mostly farm land, woods and marshes. I used to live on the north shore and there were lots of good wild edibles everywhere.
You could live for a while that way, but ultimately you are going to need protein. If you could augment your foraging with some of that good LI fish...you'd be in business! Winter is another matter.
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How long would all that edible stuff last???? on an island that you might not be able to leave if all heck broke out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_island
As of the 2000 census, Long Island had a population of 7,448,618, [2] making it the most populated island in any U.S. state or territory. It is also the 17th most populous island in the world, ahead of Ireland, Jamaica and the Japanese island of Hokkaidō. Its population density is 5,470 inhabitants per square mile (2,110 /km2). If it were a state, Long Island would rank 12th in population and first in population density.
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