The Wilderness Cure

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I love to encourage those of you living in our cities to visit the green spaces, parks and countryside and learn about the diversity of your natural surroundings.

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A stroll in the woods has been shown to help combat depression, and even just the view of the forest from a hospital room helps patients who are feeling down. Wilde speaks of the different seasons, and the various foraging foods that are available during that time. I have a Masters degree in Herbal Medicine, am a Fellow of the Linnean Society, a Member of the British Mycological Society and a Member of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS). Ruth Jarman on Two year free GC Membership for ordinands and ministers in training – limited period offer. Mo has a Masters degree in herbal medicine, is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, a member of the Association of Foragers, a member of the British Mycological Society and a member of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS).

This book also reminds us to be mindful not just about what foods we are consuming but our foods origin.

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Mo Wilde, author of The Wilderness Cure, talks about the year she spent eating only wild food with Ken Greenway at Tower Hamlets Cemetery. This book instills wonderful healthy nature mindfulness and to most, a little bit of 1st world guilt to remind us to look down, slow down and nurture the wonders around us. The writing is beautifully descriptive; however, I did find it a little repetitive in places (we’re told several times at the start that she won’t eat butter) and I also felt that it was a little ‘preachy’ in places too, which was off-putting at times. One can easily find information about foraging and the different healing properties of various plants and herbs online, but this book had just that bit extra.

If you are looking for ways to be well, connect with nature and enjoy good healthy food it’s a must have for your book shelf. It is about restoring our place in a natural network that is both staggeringly complex and beautifully simple. She teaches foraging, but had been mulling over the efficacy of living entirely off the land for the whole year. When I saw this book in Netgalley I was immediately attracted to it and by the authors desire to spend a year feeding herself with foraged food. I absolutely loved her writing and when she ventured off on tangents on folklore, history, place names and also the science behind plants and what they can offer us I was enthralled!

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If I could take one pill a day that gave me everything I needed rather than have to eat meals I would. She very sensibly sets herself allowable parameters, and sends off quarterly samples to a lab to check the effects on her gut biome and other health markers. When it comes to awe-inspiring awesomeness, nature leaves our jaws dropping and spines tingling, and rekindles the realization that we’re a tiny part of an incredible universe.Stressed: Nature presents scenes that gently capture your attention instead of suddenly snatching it, calming your nerves instead of frazzling them. Nourishing her body and mind deepens her connection with the earth – a connection that we have become estranged from but which we all, deep down, hunger for. and I really did feel that this book might have been better if she' had waited a bit longer and perhaps had prepared more so that she would be foraging for every meal herself. Great concept, and she stuck to it, so for those interested in the kind of hunter gatherer lifestyle in a northern hemisphere it would be very educational.

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I value the led foraging I have been on and this book is a fabulous resource to support these experiences. My childhood covered four continents and I also had a childhood fascination with the traditions and medicines of American Indians.I love the idea of packing in herbs and wild foods as antioxidants to support immune well being and I feel encouraged to forage more plants for the pot. A little bit of blurb : A captivating and lyrical journey into our ancestral past, through what and how we eat. The effect of “green exercise” on state anxiety and the role of exercise duration, intensity, and greenness: A quasi-experimental study. And I felt an instant connection with the author and her ‘jump in at the deep end’ kind of style to confronting her goal.