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Letter Re: Living Off The Land
Mr. Rawles,
My Survival Group was having a discussion the other night, and we got to talking
about "What if / Worst case" stuff. One of the situations involved
the old "Lost in the wilderness with nothing but your knife and your
lighter". (you do carry a pocket knife and a lighter with you, right?)
That got us to thinking...what would you eat? Most of us tended to think
of ways to snare small game, but then we got to talking about wild plants.
Before long, it became clear that not only is foraging for wild plant potentially
more efficient than snaring wild game, its also much easier. There are almost
always edible plants all around you, no matter where you are. Usually within
arms
reach! Case in point: The Pine Tree.
Pine needles can be easily brewed into tea which contains many nutrients and
vitamins. Pine cones can be roasted over a fire (you did start
a fire already, right?) to open the cone and access the seeds inside. In a
longer term situation…those
same seeds can also be ground into a type of course flour. One can also east
the inner bark of Pine trees if nothing else is available. And that’s
just the common Pine tree, which grows almost everywhere! Speaking of Tree
bark: remember that Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) was originally derived
from teas made from the inner bark of the Willow tree.
Anyway, you get the point. A little study on the matter can go a long way toward
making you self sufficient as far as food is concerned, by enabling you to
supplement your dry-stores (you do have food stores, right?)
with fresh greens providing vitamins and nutrients year round. Just remember
what Crocodile Dundee
said “You can live on it, but it tastes like…”Well, you
know what.
Here area couple of web sites I’ve come across that deal with this
topic:
Linda Runyon's "Of the
Field" Web Page
WildwoodSurvival.com/
There are, of course lots of other web sites out there, as well as good old
fashioned EMP-proof books as well.
Good luck, and KYPD,
- Krys in Idaho
