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If this is natural, it sure ain't normal.
The first 2 weeks of eating 100% wild, hand foraged food as part of the Wildbiome Project. Picture this. We are preparing for a busy...

Charlie Loram
Apr 142 min read
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The first week (of 12) eating 100% wild, hand foraged food
What a week! So many ups and downs, yet also at times an unusual slowing down, a sense of calm spaciousness, so rare in modern life....

Emily Fawcett
Apr 82 min read
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Day 2 of 90 eating 100% wild, hand foraged food as part of the Wildbiome Project
A couple of days in and I’m feeling so much respect to our hunter-gatherer forbears, to @monicawilde for eating wild for a full year and...

Emily Fawcett
Apr 82 min read
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Day 1 of 90 eating 100% wild, hand foraged food as part of the Wildbiome Project.
And so it begins... The Food Breakfast was smoked mackerel on a bed of wild greens: bistort, ground elder, dandelion, lesser celandine,...

Charlie Loram
Apr 82 min read
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What is the Wildbiome Project?
If you are what you eat, what happens if you only eat wild food? Charlie and Emily of The Old Way will be eating 100% foraged food for 3...

Emily Fawcett
Apr 82 min read
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A Tale of Two Wild Camps
I’m writing from my fireside on the edge of Dartmoor where just a few days ago a judgement in the High Court proclaimed it illegal to...

Emily Fawcett
Jan 25, 20235 min read
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Hunting and Gathering in the Kalahari
When the Old Way year group camped out with the San Master Tracker Project in the Kalahari last year...

Emily Fawcett
Feb 18, 20208 min read
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FLYING FREE- My Journey into Falconry
There was a moment a few weeks ago when I watched the sun setting over the distant tors of Dartmoor and i saw her far far away. Over a...
Robin Bowman
Dec 24, 20198 min read
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Knowing your patch
What does it mean to be indigenous to place? Indigenous peoples around the world by definition have a strong connection to the land on...

Emily Fawcett
Jun 17, 20195 min read
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Fishing Basics - An interview with Charlie Loram
By the banks of the estuary of the river Dart in Devon, I catch Charlie Loram of The Old Way year course and he shares some great tips...
Jessie Watson Brown
Jun 5, 20197 min read
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Living the Old Way - The Surprising Benefits of Harvesting Wild Foods - more than you’d expect.
When we go seeking wild food, whether foraging, hunting or fishing, we are reenacting our ancestral past and are ‘exercising’ our minds and
Charlie Loram and Emily Fawcett
Jan 22, 20196 min read
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Squirrel's back on the menu
Eating food from the land deepens our understanding of what it means to be indigenous to place and putting squirrel on the menu is a delicio

Emily Fawcett
Dec 17, 20183 min read
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A meeting of minds in the Kalahari
Part of the vision of The Old Way yearlong course is enmeshed in a bigger picture to support the preservation of traditional skills, in part

Emily Fawcett
Nov 5, 20183 min read
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Could we engage more of our brain by practicing original ways of being human?
Dirt-time will give us a better understanding of the inter-connectedness of life

Emily Fawcett
Mar 3, 20182 min read
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Indigenous belonging - Why The Old Way?
I grew up in rural Kent in the 70’s with the freedom to roam a hundred acres of woods and fields teeming with birds, butterflies and four-le

Emily Fawcett
Dec 18, 20173 min read
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