Food in the Wild

When you are trying to survive a desperate situation in the wilderness or the long uncertainty of a post-societal collapse event, you must have enough food to sustain yourself. Not just to avoid starvation, but also to keep your mind and body working at peak levels. Slipping mentally or physically in an extreme situation could […]

When you’re talking about survival, real survival, the only thing you can count on is that you’ll have to do a lot of things that you don’t want to do, including some things that you would ordinarily think you can’t do. This includes eating things that you don’t want to eat, and potentially animals that

When you are in any kind of survival situation, be it a long-term or a short-term one, food is among your highest priorities. While it is true that you can go several weeks without food before you starve, it collapses in your physical and mental energy levels well before then will severely hamper your efforts

Whether you are trapped in deep wilderness or just facing a very long-term survival scenario after a society toppling event, learning how to acquire food from the wild is imperative. When it comes to foods, hardly anything is more nutritious or a better source of energy than animal protein. Sadly, under the circumstances you’ll probably

Even though you can go weeks without food before starting to die, eating regularly is critical in a survival situation so you can keep up your mental and physical energy levels. Easy enough to say when you are sitting on a big stash of food in your pantry or store room, but out in the

Mushroom foraging can be imposing for the beginner and rewarding for the seasoned veteran. Mushrooms are everywhere, tasty, and have great nutritional value. Oh, and some of them can kill you. Alternatively to mushroom farming, foraging is not a hobby to go into lightly… It requires attention to detail and the dedication to seek professional

Survival is an ugly business, and sometimes being in a legitimate fight to survive means you’re going to have to do things that you wouldn’t ordinarily do, and that means eating things that you wouldn’t ordinarily eat. Sometimes you might have to eat animals that are otherwise considered unpalatable, or even cute. How about chipmunks?

If you plan on bugging out to the wilderness, one of the most important skills you could have is learning how to identify edible wild plants. But this is hardly easy, and regional variations along with dangerous look-alikes could spell disaster if you choose poorly. One way to mitigate this risk is to employ the

Foraging is a skill that is seldom taught in society but is one of the best ways to get food in lean times, or even just for fun. It is because of this lack of education that a lot of people don’t know the abundance of wild food that is both free and healthier than

When considering a move to a remote homestead or just the logistical problems of providing sustained food supply during a bug out in the wilderness, the question of eating wild game naturally comes up. Most folks are already acquainted with the notion of eating such fare as deer and wild poultry, but what of other