Description: Wild Heart Food explores food, health and heart. From foraging tips to interviews and recipes, we bring wisdom from tribes and chefs around the world.
Our car comes to a halt before a log in an inlet beside a back road. The log is used to stop off-roaders from tearing up the earth, but this is not our intention, so we gather our things and step into the bristling scrubland. We look to the shelter of a large mound of earth, and clear a space beneath it. Just earlier, I had been listening to a story of a reporter who was stranded in Afghanistan, hunted by the Taliban. There are no bullets flying at us now, yet I do not feel entirely alone, or entirely safe.
The following is an excerpt from Stephen Harrod Buhner’s The Secret Teachings of Plants.
One of our greatest fears is to eat the wildness of the world.