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Scotland Outdoors

A Year of Wild Food with Monica Wilde.

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen hears about Monica's year of buying nothing and foraging for food.

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0:36.2

The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:44.3

Hello and thanks very much for choosing this podcast. I'm Mark Stephen.

0:49.3

Now I would imagine that you, like me, get most of your food from the local supermarket.

0:59.0

Now, you might grow some of your own veg, you might even have access to locally sourced meat. You might even do a bit of foraging, but I think it's highly unlikely, impossible almost,

1:04.0

that you rely solely on what you find out and about in nature, like a hunter-gatherer ancestors.

1:11.5

Now Monica Wilde is a herbalist

1:12.9

and a forager. Just over a year ago

1:14.7

she decided to embark on an experiment

1:16.7

which for most people would seem

1:18.5

it probably would be impossible.

1:21.1

I met up with her three days

1:22.9

after that year-long adventure

1:24.5

ended at her home in West Lothian

1:26.5

where she explained just a bit more about it.

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