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Modern-day hunter-gatherers are part of the boomerang effect of McFoodification .
Online foraging communities like Wild Food Larder and Mushroom Spotters UK have new people joining every day .
Committed foragers harvest dandelion roots, which apparently make a coffee equivalent.
Foraging can extend to supermarket cut-price shelves, or grocery store dumpsters.
Increasingly, I come across local governments and community groups showing an inclination for wilding.
We know that wildflowers and what we think of as weeds’ are ecosystems for pollinators like bees and butterflies.
They are also possible food sources for us, provided we tap into them in moderation.
England has a long history of enclosure of common land for those aligned to power.
Acts of Parliament from the 17th to early 20th centuries institutionalised enclosure.
A fifth of the area of England , about 6.8 million acres , was privatised.
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