Feral food future

Eating weeds, as I’m beginning to understand, is the most radical food supply available. It is one that attends to the desire to make the transition to ecologically embedded modes of existence, transitioning to a feral food future perhaps more suited to non-Indigenous Australians. We are, after all, weeds ourselves. However, with expanding populations a relocalised food supply system is going to rely on biodiverse modes of supply that Malthus could have only dreamed of. Permaculture shows us how to cohabit the earth again alongside non-human nature while generating an abundant and diverse food supply. Permaculture is a transitional ideology, a framework for putting all the local food supply options back on the table – foraging for feral fruits and nuts, growing annual and perennial vegetables, eating edible weeds, developing reciprocal relationships with other species, eating much less or no meat, understanding the importance of micro-fauna and micro-fungi networks to enhance soils for greater food abundance
Patrick Jones from Greenwash #13 article published in In Trouble