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A year of wild eating

n November 27, 2021 I chopped a carrot to make a stirfry. This wouldn’t be at all remarkable except it was the first time in a whole year I’d eaten something that wasn’t wild. For 12 months I had foraged wild plants from the hedgerows, picked blaeberries, discovered wild mushrooms deep in the forest, harvested seaweed and learned to

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