Bushman's Wild Food TM

Eating wild foods offers us one small sustainable alternative to the current model of mass-produced foods.
If we learn to use these natural resources in a sustainable way we can all help to reduce some of the pressure on the environment from industrialized agriculture. Wild foods are begging to be explored and there is such a diverse array of wild foods in the world that we simply dont know about.

Why eat wild foods?

- these foods are totally untouched by genetic modification
- they’ve not had any unnatural pesticides, fertilizers or other chemicals added
- they’re almost always superior to organic foods in their natural nutritional content
-  and they offer us alternatives for new types of sustainable agriculture that are not reliant on the global industrialised system of food production (food security)

From an indigenous wisdom point of view, eating wild foods is seen as an ancient sharing of  knowledge about how to live off and be sustained by the land. This is a powerful memory that is being given to us in these times of transition, an important piece of information that we need for our future survival as a species, as a planet. Our food is more than a simple plate of nutrition. It has an identity with the land and with the people who discovered, and work with these foods, our ancestors who knew how to be sustained by the earth. This understanding of food is what Gabriel Cousens refers to as Conscious Eating, or which others might call an integral approach to eating.

The purpose of Bushman’s Wild Foods is to share this experience of conscious eating, of connecting people back to the land, to it’s spirit, to the spirit of the people. Our intention is to bring us all closer to living a new paradigm of conscious eating which in tune with Mother Earth in these trying ecological times.

“The following list gives a hint of the agricultural crisis we are facing.

• 75% of European food product diversity has been lost since 1900
• 93% of American food product diversity has been lost in the same time period
• 33% of livestock varieties have disappeared or are near disappearing
• 30,000 vegetable varieties have become extinct in the last century, and one more is lost every six hours” – Slow Food International
  We need to reclaim these foods before the knowledge disappears completely. Adding wild foods to our diets is one way that we can reclaim this rich heritage of sustenance from Mother Earth. Go out and rediscover the rich diversity of food that is humanity’s birthright.

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