Living off the land??

[Combine]

Hey guys, i was just wondering if actually living off the land would be difficult or not? I'm talking about like growing your own food to survive off of and hunting when you needed to. What kind of crop would be ideal to grow during the seasons and what exactly do you eat while your crop is growing?

[killerweed420]

You ever watch Into The Wild? Its not as easy as it sounds. You really need to familiarize with native wild plants. There's a lot out there edible and there is a lot that is deadly. Potatoes are always a good thing to through in the ground.Educate yourself on fishing and hunting. And the biggest thing you can do is educate yourself on first aid. With nobody around you better know how to fix yourself if something happens.

[BlazedinBA]

right on killerweed, into the wild is a great movie....extremely sad ending tho

[StickyfingahZ]

I lived off the land while I was staying in Tonga for 2 years,well,almost two years.
Its okay,I liked it,Wake up in the morning and just eat whatevers,no refridgerator,so usually its guava or papaya's,bananna and coconut.and then start a fire and get the rocks all hot for the umu(underground oven) and while thats going usually someone is making food to put into the umu,like shredding coconut to make coconut milk and taro leaves and octopus or whatever you gonna make and after that you just put everything in the umu and go work in the farm until the food is cooked,usually about 2 or 3 in the afternoon then everyone comes and eats and the food you guys cook is like lunch and dinner,but after eat,just lay back,cruz go swimming or whatevers. It was pretty chill,but I like my TV and washing machines and stuff.But it was relaxing,we had pigs and a cow and lots of chickens and stuff.Sometimes go fishing at night or diving.Not me though,I dont go in the water at night,lol...
I liked it,I didnt drink any soda the whole time,so when I got back to the USA,I got a cherry coke from the Soda machine and I couldnt finish it,it burned my throat too much.

[IAmKowalski]

Mother Earth News: The Original Guide to Living Wisely (http://www.motherearthnews.com/)

Required reading for anyone with an interest in homesteading. And as for is it difficult? Well, of course it is - if you aren't bothered by the idea of hard work all year to provide wood for heat, food stores for the winter, building/maintaining shelter, then yea it could be very rewarding - but of course it's hard work.

[mjmomma]

Oh yes, it will be hard.
But when you think about it: not nearly as hard as working 40+ hours a week to make someone else wealthy.
This is a life long dream of mine as well, best of luck to you and yours.
Another handy-dandy reference is the book called "Firefox Manual". It's filled with ALL SORTS of tidbits about insects, growing food, building structures, it's incredible to read even if you're on a couch in a condo.

[GraziLovesMary]

Well it depends on your character, where you are planning to live, and what your expectations are.

Like Kowalski said, it sounds like you are talking about homesteading.. setting up a permanant residence and farming it. If so, you will need to research the area and find not only crops that will thrive in that region, but you need to find about 3 or 4 crops that will balance each other out. Different crops leech different nutrients from the ground so if you dont rotate crops then you will have farmed your and to death. Clearly, if your crops are still growing and you have no stores or caches, you will need to hunt, fish, or gather berries, shoots, tubers, and whatever other wild vegetation is in your area. Alaska is a great place to do this, as they still have a homesteading program. Not to mention its about the most beautiful place in the world. And where I learned how to survive in the wilderness.

Personally, if I was to live off nature, I would be nomadic. Ideally, it would be in northern region where I can eventually adopt a pack of wolves and hunt with them. Other than that, I would traverse the land, picking and eating as I went, possibly setting up semi-permanant dwellings and caches as I range out and set boundaries. I would hunt and fish when the opportunity presents itself, and go where my whim would lead.

In other words, I would live. The way I was meant to. And the only way I could be happier was if I had a woman at my side who felt the same way.

[Trip06]

Then the alarm goes off monday morning. Ha.