Could you live off the land?
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I saw this guy, if its the same one he walked away from everything and he cooked the news reporter lass some dinner and it looked proper decent. If this is true and he has no money whatsoever then it has to be possible. It has to be because if it wasnt then how the hell did we survive way back in history?
would love to give it a try, I think I could manage. But it's one of those things that you wont know till you try.
I often think that while you would be working many more hours a day gathering food, travelling, building. it would be more rewarding and enjoyable than modern life.
I often think that while you would be working many more hours a day gathering food, travelling, building. it would be more rewarding and enjoyable than modern life.
I was a bit worried about half way through that sentence. I mean, I know you'd get hungry living off the land, but...
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Have to be some where remote, top of Scotland ? possible for a time but indefinitely ? Not so sure in this country in modern times. Go and try it in Eastern Europe got more of a chance to feed ya self off the land..
Yeah, but only here.
I know where shelter can be found, I could construct basic shelter, I know water sources, I know how to hunt and fish, I know how to prepare animals and fish for eating, I know basics regarding growing my own veg etc.
Do-able i'd say!
I know where shelter can be found, I could construct basic shelter, I know water sources, I know how to hunt and fish, I know how to prepare animals and fish for eating, I know basics regarding growing my own veg etc.
Do-able i'd say!
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I was a bit worried about half way through that sentence. I mean, I know you'd get hungry living off the land, but...
Lmao omg... He said she looked rather tasty and asked her for her dinner.
Reporter: "where can I sit m8?"
Living off the land bloke: "in that big pot full boiling water please"
lol
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no, I'm afraid i'd have to admit I'd probably die unless I found myself tangled up with some hippy commune or something where someone actually knows what to do!! 
I'd be dead in a week.
Well, I might last a bit longer if I could get some fishing going and learn to clean a fish, but I'd be screwed if I had to hunt mammals. Well, unless I went and hunted a cow from a nearby farm, but that's not really in the spirit of the exercise.
Well, I might last a bit longer if I could get some fishing going and learn to clean a fish, but I'd be screwed if I had to hunt mammals. Well, unless I went and hunted a cow from a nearby farm, but that's not really in the spirit of the exercise.
I'm not too bothered about hygiene as long as I can clean my teeth and generally keep things hygienic enough to prevent illness.
What other issues did you have that you weren't expecting?
I’ll team up with you then at least there will be some company before we die.
Hold me.
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I see some unexpected problems as:
1) There's green mold growing on your left foot no matter how clean you've tried to keep it - started when a thorn went into your foot whilst walking.. It's started to hurt. It's growing. You've got nothing truly hygenic to wrap it in so settle for a completely naff 'rip a bit off your T-shirt and boil it for a while and wrap it round'. It's getting almost so you can't walk no matter hunter/gather ..
2) Your stomach hurts and hurts and hurts. You've been eating 3 types of berry you've found as you can find sod-all else to eat, and drinking from some spring that kind of seems clean but for all you know there's a dead rotting cow lying in it 5 miles up-stream ... What now?
3) A group of 8 people turn up, beat you up, and take your stuff. Yuo have the feeling this won't be their last trip ..
4) I think mental problems .. anguish, stress, depression, even loneliness would make a play and hurt more than you think ..
5) You capture your first animal, and don't know how to butcher it .. so end up slicing open the intestine (very common noob butchery mistake and infects all the meat with poo), not hanging the meat to bleed(so it's blooded and virtually inedible) or after 1.5 days the whole carcass starts rotting despite your naff attempts at smoking it and you have to throw away 95% of the thing you killed after it only gave you 2 really good meals ...
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Is dumpster diving considered living off the land? That's pretty easy.
I learned a whole bunch of survival stuff twenty years ago in the ATC, would manage. Living off the land in a temperate maritime climate is about as easy as it gets.
I learned a whole bunch of survival stuff twenty years ago in the ATC, would manage. Living off the land in a temperate maritime climate is about as easy as it gets.
Nettles are very nutritious, you just need to pick them carefully and cook them a bit. I'd steer well clear of any fungus, that takes an expert eye to pick.
There's plenty of fish in the rivers, and plenty of rodents in the trees that are good eating. Burdock leaves and nice fruits and berries are rampant. Dandelions are pretty edible, we all know what they look like. Chesnuts are good and available food.
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