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ziq wrote (edited )

I got an edible plant identification book written by a botanist in my area with photos and set about picking plants to eat. I soon found other edible plants that weren't in the book with the help of the internet and stapled in extra pages I made.

If I need to make a tool or solve a problem, I just use common sense, look at the materials I have available and figure out how to fuse them into something that would be useful

I experimented with preserving food and came up with several methods. e.g. I picked a ton of wild olives at different stages of ripeness and used 4 different curing methods including water curing, brine, layers of rock salt, sun drying to see which had the best results. I found green / unripe olives can quickly be water cured by just seeping them in water and changing it once a day until the bitterness is gone, while super ripe olives take much longer to water cure and are better brined

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kin OP wrote

Good advice, try to focus on your bioregion Thanks!

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ziq wrote

with big green olives you should slice them with a sharp knife a couple times each before water curing them, it's much faster that way

once they're cured, store them in water and vinegar

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kin OP wrote

Nice idea to check the region flora and specifics for my region. Like mushrooms and fauna too, if poisonous snakes and alike dwell in the same region etc..

I have a kind of target horizon to change from my urban landscape to a rural one somewhere in next 10 ~ 15 years, but since I spent my youth doing silly monkey stuff I forget my survival skills in the jungle. One of my ideological dilemmas is how I should feel about hunting being myself a vegan. Sure you can survive in the wild with no animal killing, and being a homesteader would eliminate any food shortages.

The improvisational mindset is the way to go, and give us more feelin' of accomplishment I think, do something by yourself, etc

Thanks! The olive recipes are awesome

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ziq wrote

there's no such thing as sustainable hunting any more, we're in the midst of a mass extinction

just eat plants

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kin OP wrote

Agree 100% and I don't believe In. Sustainable hunting, but irc someone made a point that it was unreal to believe in "survivalism" without hunting, not sure if was here in raddle the comment tho

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kin OP wrote

Good point, colonizer mindset is really a major issue, and this kind of militia or libertarian approach, "consumerism with a apocalyptic aesthetic" bothers me, like the first thing available in the web 1.0 were things like poor man james bond and shit like that.

The hunting issue came after reading some people say that is inevitable when you are surviving, but like ziq said maybe is inevitable in artic and subartic regions. Yeah I lost the survival common sense, darn you Civilization ™!

Actually when I said survivalism is more like dropout living off the earth lol lifestyle, exactly what @magpiekilljoy do I think, I have a dozen of her podcast episodes to watch, maybe that you posted here in raddle

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