What is important to me, and what Frank also taught, is people need to re-learn foraging, healing and celebrating with wild plants. These humble, undomesticated, feral beings. Domestication leads to docility, to a slow death of our senses and a loss of connection to our soul.
I believe individuals need to start learning ‘skills for self reliance’. We live in challenging times with global warming, peak oil, food security and sustainability being the new buzz-words.
Re-discovering the lost art of foraging is a joyous and pleasurable way to reconnect our fragmented souls back with Nature, back to the ancient roots of this land, and ultimately back to our true kinship with each other.
The coming years on an individual and collective level will be challenging, it is up to us to face those changes directly, to re-empower ourselves and support each other. And the humble plant kingdom has a lot to teach us all.
-- Robin Harford
Wild foods foraging courses
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