Foraging will strip the countryside bare

Attitudes from a 1000 years of conditioning

I’m off to pick the whole forest

“Your lot will strip the countryside bare”. My mate looked at me in the eye, a flash of anger passed across his face. I wager he’d been waiting to say this to me for some time and was now itching for a fight. “Is that what you think”? I retorted and changed the subject, swiftly.

I’ve referred to myself a forager for around…