I Foraged 100% of My Food for a Month!
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- For one month I foraged 100% of my food. No grocery stores, no restaurants and not even a garden!
Every. Single. Bite.
Nature was my garden, my pantry and my pharmacy.
Now I'm here to share the story with you and help YOU reconnect with Earth and gain food freedom!
The 9 days of preparation began August 29th, 2022. The month of eating 100% foraged food was September 9th - October 9th (late summer and early fall).
Get my upcoming book, Food Freedom: robingreenfield.org/foodfreed...
Find a forager near you: robingreenfield.org/findaforager
Visit my beginner's guide to foraging: robingreenfield.org/foraging
Learn more about my month of eating foraged food: robingreenfield.org/reconnect
It’s the dream of millions. To “live off the land” and never have to take a trip to the grocery store. And through the pandemic more and more Americans have experienced the instability of our food system and desire to break free.
But is it possible to break free? I am here to show that it is.
Filmed and Edited by Daniel Troia
Special thanks to Daniel Troia, Ethan Harris, Carly Fulton, Belle Brown and Sebastiano Pestoni for your support.
Robin Greenfield is a truth-seeker, activist, social reformer and servant to Earth, humanity and our plant and animal relatives. He lives simply and sustainably to be the change he wishes to see in the world. Through living closely connected to Earth, he rejects the status quo of consumerism and demonstrates a way of being in gratitude, mindfulness and presence. His life is an experiment with truth and integrity.
Robin’s public activism involves dramatic actions designed to provoke critical thought, self-reflection and positive change. His activism creates nuanced conversations on the critical issues of our time, with a focus on solutions for living in harmony.
His life’s work has been covered by media worldwide and he has been named “The Robin Hood of Modern Times” by France 2 TV and “The Forrest Gump of Ecology”.
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Dear Friends!
Are you inspired and encouraged to begin foraging and reconnect with Earth? Or to start foraging more than you are now?
I have spent countless hours creating resources to be of service to you. Here are my top resources (all of which are free):
Find a forager near you: robgreenfield.org/findaforager (use this website to find in person opportunities near you and local resources)
My Beginner's Guide to Foraging: robgreenfield.org/foraging
Learn more about my month of eating foraged food: robgreenfield.org/reconnect
My Foraging TH-cam playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLHrhas5pE0W6XEE-ffAas9l5V2W491WHu.html
This includes full-length plant walks that I led in person and filmed for YOU!
Lastly, you can get my book, Food Freedom: www.indiegogo.com/projects/food-freedom-book
Love,
Rob
I have been watching you expand your knowledge through growing, foraging and preserving for awhile now! Great community activism.
Our family came over as colonists and sadly the mixing of cultures wiped out 95 percent of the indigenous neighbourhood and from what I heard, they loved each other and who wouldn't love such a self-sufficient, beautifil group. I am in disagreement with your comments about colonialism and capitolism. They left a monachist world to build something that was unconstrained. Though we need a totally revamped economic model based on education, holistic medicine, at home caring. Our ancestors made their own clothes, blankets from flax and wool, raisdd animals snd farmed with only manure until just a century ago.I admire them. They had little free time!
Without competition and a free market people become soft and the others brown nosers whose idea of liberty is following a imposed code of behavior, suck rocks.
I like whatI am seeing here in my new town Lachute, Quebec, because there are a lot of organic farmers and tree people here. Dairy farmers pasturing cows...Just wonderful to see the markets, even Walmart with a good section if bio! Still, some old style unwilliing to pull weeds but chemicaliy control. A dying breed.
I think you are right in that people watch produce spoil right before their eyes mostly because they haven't got a clue as to how to process it.
Your videos and seminars are helpful. Neighbours sharing knowledge and bounty, just wonderful!
The more we multiply the more we willl need to be able to respect the individual within a healthy collective. I would say over 50 percent of NorthAmerica want it and smaller operations or mid-sized is easier to manage, scrub of pollutants and keep within the community's reach.
I am 100 percent with you. Big is not better. Organics should be the onky yhing on the shelf! Thanks for your inspiring work! Peace.
THANK YOU, Rob.
Over the last year I've noticed how much I dislike grocery shopping (more than before). The packaged food, the bright lights and of course prices that have gone up. But unlike you, I was kinda stuck as to how to change my palette (let's address that), give up some foods I do like, and learn again!
But your videos (previous), your philosophy and of course information has really motivated me to figure out this new path. Thank you for being you- and for caring! I love the earth, too.
Btw, I'm reading a book called Spiritual Ecology. I'm wondering if you are familiar?
Yes!!
And I'm wondering if the places you have traveled in the last month were based on knowing about "food options"?
I also found myself thinking about the unsheltered and how this could be a "lift up" if they were informed, too!
Right now I live in an overbuilt environment; that I wish I could have seen as the beautiful, open land it was and should be !
Rob, you should read Mo Wilde's 'The Wilderness Cure', she spends a whole year eating only wild food!
Thanks Rob! You're the best!
This is new to Americans. My culture and people forage our food and grow our own crops back home.
You're the first I believe who does videos like this I've seen acknowledge the genocide and stolen land. I appreciate that.
I'd love to see more about winter foraging; that's always hardest for me outside of mushrooms, rosehips, crabapples, and persimmons. I'm not always sure where to look in the winter, and it's harder to be motivated to search as long or as far into the woods when it's freezing out.
The key is to harvest the bounty spring through fall to have plenty stored away for the winter.
There is certainly some foraging to do in the winter, but not enough to subsist on.
Harvest the fall bounty and then relax in the winter.
@@Robin.Greenfield Sure, but for me that makes for a depressing winter! Foraging is much more about my mental health than anything else so I'm always looking for ways to motivate myself in the winter.
@@ArtichokeHunter The Holocaust book The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski has multiple passages about foraging mushrooms in the winter in Poland.
@@ArtichokeHunter Harvest other things in the Winter to create useful things with maybe? e.g.- red willow for medicine and weaving, various barks from dead tree's, clay for making pots - then take these things back to your fire and create :)
You may still be able to harvest nuts but would def have to pick through the scraps
Planet Earth is made to give us abundance. Just use it in the right way. Rob shows how to do it!
except it's not sustainable for everyone to do it the way he does.
@@kalfaxplays7899it is more than factories casual
Eat the meat that grows on the planet as well, you'll feel the benefits. Try it ;-)
He would win the hunger games probably
Foraging was hard to do in our locale. But you inspired me to plant so many edible plants around my house and neighboring vacant lots. I sometimes sprinkle seeds to areas exposed to sunlight. I plant sweet potato vines and water spinach(kangkong) everywhere. Now I can easily find food around me.
Way to go my friend!
I've been telling this to people, you don't need to buy land to plant trees grown or other plants. there are so many leftover seeds from grains, nuts, fruits, vegetables and they can sprout and grow plants which offer more and it also contributes to more vegetation when you plant them where there's less plants growing or "empty" fields.
They probably hate you for giving them "weeds" 😂😂😂
My dad worked at a chemical factory, and he made a lot of money and retired early and has a very good pension. So I never really thought too much about chemicals and food and everything else until two guys died after a field was accidentally sprayed when they were in it. 😢 To make a long story short. (Kind of🤷🏼♀️) My daughters fiancé worked for pioneer seed in Illinois and two migrant workers were in the field and there was some kind of communication issue, and the airplane came over and sprayed the fields. I don’t know if it was pesticides or whatever it was, but those two migrant workers died in a Hospital later that day. And I thought to myself, we are spraying our food with these chemicals that kill people. Why are we eating this? 😑😞😭 ever since then I have been looking for a better way of life. I live in Okeechobee Florida and I just purchased an acre of ground outside of town that has a trailer and a nice garage on it and I am trying to start a food Forrest. I saw, your video on the starter kit and I am definitely going to get me one of those. I already have mango, papaya, coconut, and a couple other trees going, but I definitely want more!! 😊 if you ever need a place to live you are more than welcome to stay at my house for free! I don’t even stay there most of the time I live with my dad about 10 miles away because my mom just died in April and he needs the help. So anyways my place is empty and free if you ever need a place to stay.
Interesting to see you offer something like this to that man Tawnya! I was just speaking to my wife about that very idea.
Interesting to see you saying in the comments the very thing I told her we ought to be looking for 🤔
I myself did not become aware how bad "normal" food chemicals are until... I got a throat fungal infection that I had NO reason to get... other than the chemicals in everyday food. And at first, I had no clue what the cause could be. I had to get a lot of inspiration to know what research papers to look up... but I eventually found how how chemicals such as glyphosate weedkiller cause cancer and kill good probiotics etc (I found this out DECADES before glyphosate got into the news or a few textbooks). Although I do not grow or forage my own food (although I do know HOW- it's just lack of time for me)... I DID put myself on a 100% certified organic diet (and after a few years discovered how to get such a diet CHEAPER than regular food, like over $100 cheaper in fact- depends on the types of foods even if they still provide all necessary nutrients). And, probably because "organic" legally means "no synthetic chemicals" (which are likely to be harmful from my own research)... I NEVER had another "surprise" health problem again. I've been on a 100% organic diet for 12 years now and have even saved money.
It's only two migrant workers that's what they're there for.
It’s good that you are growing your own food good for your body and the planet.
😢😢 agreed 👍 why do they spray so much. Most weeds are edible
I forage mushrooms. I take them home and try to introduce them to my garden. I also help them spread my neighborhood and around the area where I found them.
Foraging helps the plants as it creates a mutual beneficial relationship.
Don't just take... give back 😊 Brilliant. Sustainable. Great comment and practice.
Make pesto using dandelion greens purslane chickweed etc
So does my property manager, it is popular here to forage.
You are doing a fabulous job, helping people to reconnect with nature and themselves. From Belgium with solidarity. 😀💪👋💚
Thank you for the encouragement Beatrice!
Haven't watched your videos in a bit but after seeing this one I am once again hit with the realisation if how we're all kind of trapped in this broken system, and that it is high time for me to pick up where I left off breaking free from it. You are so inspiring and I truly hope to attend one of your food walks or talks someday.
I believe he covered this a little in the video but: any progress away from big ag is still progress!
I know in my journey to try and move away from big ag, it can be intimidating seeing how big the problem is, and how complicated and drastic the solutions can seem. And I believe it is important to remember that there is value in even doing just 2% of the ideal.
A small garden, knowing just a few edible plants, even supporting local farmer's markets are all steps away from corporate horrors and they all still count!
You are such an inspiration Rob, thank you for living by your values so wholeheartedly, and sharing your process with us all!
Rob, you look so happy! Thank you so much for sharing your accomplishments and journey! And for teaching us!
I love my wild greens pesto. Dandelion greens chickweed purslane,etc. Most of the so called weeds on my 1/4 acre are superfoods. I'm learning a lot. God is good.
If you ever come to the Eastern part of Connecticut please visit with us so that we can trample through our woods and see what food is out there. We do natural landscaping so even our yard must be full of something. Be well and stay safe.
I started watching you when you did this before for a year, I’m still amazed.
I'm glad to hear!
That was a year of growing and foraging my food.
This was only foraging. A new challenge!
Monica Wilde did the same for a year in Scotland. She has a book about it called 'The Wilderness Cure'.
Thank you for sharing your experiences and showing decolonizing methods, such as food sovereignty and foraging!!
You are welcome Sandrine!
I am decolonizing my own find first and foremost and my service will become more and more decolonized as I do this.
Thank you for your acknowledgement of my efforts. I am trying really hard and it is quite challenging as even the oppressors suffer in this dominator culture we were born into.
I am sending you a big hug!
Robin
Awesome work, Robin! I would be so down for joining one month and helping with foraging and processing. I’ve always kind of imagines foragers could specialize so that we all benefit. You may have the mushroom people, the acorn processors and foragers, fruit pickers and tenders, etc. we’d all come together with our skills to get the food we need. And of course to help sow native edible plants and carry on these traditions of gardening beneath the forests 😊
Indeed, the solution is community food sovereignty!
I think specialization is exactly what brought us where we are now; the guys who specialized in fruits ended up having an orchard to concentrate the foraging in one place, the corn foragers started cultivating it to make it easier, et cetera, until nature is gone and there's monocoltures everywhere.
IMO foraging should be all around to be sustainable, and obviously limited to small groups of people; is is definitely not suitable for large groups or you end up creating specialization and economy, or for densely populated areas which would create competition and food scarcity.
@@SugoDiGatto sustaining a small community is way different from a large scale farm. Native american tribes reached many hundreds per village.
@@Falcodrin which is sustainable and way less populous than any modern "small" town.
Try to do the same now with the amount of people and population density we have, and there wouldn't be enough resources to gather for everybody, thus people will start cultivating on their own and trade within the big group.
It has to start in the mind. So true. Because many won't touch produce unless it's pre-washed and packaged.
lets go for this 😍
Mad respect for this 🫡
Yes yes and yes
Congratulations Rob! Yes there are many that see what you see. Freedom for All ---Mother Earth and all her inhabitants. Thank you thank you thank you.
What an interesting video, thank you so much!!
Learned so muuuuch
Please read this before foraging! A lot plants !should not! be harvested from near roads, especially if you are planning to use forage plants every day! Some plants can collect heavy mettals such as lead. Most plants require at least 25 meters away from the road. Please do research before using any plants!
the stuff about the food system makes me think of a really ignorant letter to the editor in the washington post that was saying wild food should be for wild animals and trying to say foraging is bad for the environment... like grocery store food isn't?? i'm sure that she'd never heard of ethical foraging or thought about how many invasives are edible
Just fantastic ❤
Amen brother! I do forage some but I have the peace of mind of not being dependent on the system by knowing every weed, animal and bug I can eat around my house. I keep alcohol, jars and droppers handy for making my meds
Love these videos, he inspires me, a big fat guy, to forage and some of the nettle I foraged I planted on my property
Rob, thank you SO much for your generosity of energy, knowledge, and enthusiasm! I am jumping up and down right now, having discovered this video this morning! I will check out the links and resources and pass this on to others. Food sovereignty is critical. You are doing great work. The joyful and humble delivery of this info is infectious. I think you changed my life today. ❤ I have always loved foraging and been drawn to it. Have some basic knowledge and incorporate wild foods when I can. But very superficially. You just inspired me to go deeper and go for more connection. I want to know more and have true skills in this. Thank you for reminding me that I can!
Thank you for sharing this with me Dear Friend! I am here on this journey of life with you!
Great lesson about storage! That's something I need to get better at. right now, I'm sowing fava beans everywhere across my backyard.
Thank you for this update! Explaining the prep involved before and during helped me understand how you completed this journey. I also appreciate the last bit about, "What if we all foraged?" It made me think if we all foraged, we would blow the dandelion puffs we see growing in yards and parks, encouraging growth so we could eat more dandelion greens! Then, we'd be excited about them and smile more because it's a fun way to connect with the Earth and our true selves.
I am also learning about foraging. In the summer's I feel so healthy. I need to put up more so it will carry through the winters
Dude I was concerned about survival but you kinda opened my train of thought to a much bigger picture I'm still processing this bigger picture and I will let you know how that all comes together. I live in SE La. and have started my first garden and I'm curious about the edible and medicinal plants growing wild in my area. I'm glad I found your channel and thanks for helping me open my mind you are good people
Blessings to you Rob. Way to more mindful too. Thanks..I think Gandi said "there is enough for all in the world just not enough for all the greed". What you state and showing demonstrates this.
I absolutely love what you’re doing 🧡 thank you for sharing.
I have been following you for the last seven years thank you for sharing all of your amazing videos.
This is amazing your so inspirational and motivational I started to only shop at the farmers market 8 years ago the goal is to grow some in my community garden. Next is foraging.
Human energy put into war redirected towards encouraging proliferation of the natural environment equals the revolution this man so wisely speaks about. Way to go Rob!
I’m going to do this!!!!
That´s funny because he already did live a year off foraged food. In fact the most practical solution(as many have found) is to "plant some, forage some". And we often can forage around what we have planted! Most "weeds" are edible. What he didn´t say- but shows in his eyes and smiles - is that it is FUN!
Well Rob you look super healthy on it 👍
Hi Rob! Hi person behind the camera! Hi algorithm
Can you imagine you're in the park walking your dog and some weirdo is just eating random seeds and berries hunched over like Gollum? lol
yea Turtle Island - Amerigo Vespucci was a nobody (as was Columbus) native humans had lived on this continent for millennia sustainably. I agree with you that it is imperative that modern humans need to re-learn how to forage, how to store/preserve, how to garden and save seeds and how to collaborate with one another instead of the military/industrial/money nightmare. Thank you for spreading the Gaia Gospel!!!!!
Love this! I'm in the Caribbean. I have found 28 wild plants that are useful to use so far. On St.Thomas
Since you are interested in food:
It is said that by 2045 we would be producing 40% less food than what we are producing right now and our population would be over 9.3billion people. #nosoilnofood
Let's act now #SaveSoil
I thought it's important to share
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Love from Hungary 💓
@@savesoil3133 I heard about that. I'm growing my own food. I'm only taking what I need and not destroying the plants.
Commenting for the algorithm, keep up the good work rob 💚
Hello rob im from Philippines i really love foraging food also now i am trying sustainable life style like yours .. thanks for the tips and knowledge sending full support 😊😊
the part when you're pulling the deer from the road is so hilarious!!
Really excellent, Rob. It's only been roughly a year since I connected with your content after having seen blips of your minimalism journey videos. I've since moved in with my partner onto an urban rental property of roughly 1/4 acre. The landowner is supporting us in turning it into a market garden and native plant refuge,. We are expanding into a neighboring property soon. I foraged roughly 10k black walnuts that we are shelling and will sell to support our farm this first winter. I've had so many great interactions with folks about foraging. It's wild that it's only been a year, but I think your videos helped push me into taking the leap. I come from a plant sci and gardening background, but I think your content helped shift me into thinking more along the lines of this lifestyle and connection with my community as a solution to climate change. Looking forward to seeing more of your work. We'll be coming out soon, be on the lookout for Root of the Matter Farm in E Kansas. ~ Peace, Anna
Greetings from Sweden.. I do foraged and you have inspired me to improve my foraging.. We also grow quite a lot.. Growing up in my rural village in Zimbabwe we foraged and lived off the land growing and foraging.. I am learning Swedish and learning of the edible foods in northern Europe..sweden is a foragers paradise.. The last three years have taken me back to my childhood.. As we did not have freezers and dried most of our foods including meat.. So i dry most of the foods we grow n forage.. We have so much now i make vege flour..
Greets back to you Dear Friend!
Thank you for sharing a little bit about your story of life. I am grateful for you!
Foraging together,
Robin
You go, Rob!
I met this man at a gathering he was hosting yesterday near the Monkey Tree in Austin Texas and I am taken aback as he is living the life of my childhood dreams and I had an ember sparked up again that I thought was burnt out from sharing with other people as they ended up stealing from me, and I woke one day with sepsis in an incredibly dark place within my heart, my body, spirit, mind, and even the law. I am so grateful for having met this man cuz he is still doing it even showed me how to connect with other people once more with true heartfelt connections❤ thank you, Robin for reigniting my faith in the future just by being you
Great job! We need more things like this.
Can't express enough gratitude for this. Watching again and again!
Way to walk the talk Rob! I am eating some Collards that grew on my 3 y/o plants...
Thank you Rob for helping everyone! Yes, "I Foraged 100% of My Food for a YEAR!" that's the video I want to see next year!! 💚🍏🍏🍏💚💚
He did this in Florida. Go backward to his older videos. He grew and foraged though. He did it using gardens in the neighborhood where he lived at the time.
@@thematrix3663 I know, I watched those videos. Will probably watch them again with my kids :) I was agreeing with what Rob said, that he might extend the month to a year :)
This is how a lot of people live in my village and its so normal.
It was so great getting to meet you in Philadelphia, Rob! You’ve inspired me to dive even deeper and made me more confident in my own knowledge - I can tell it’s having a ripple effect onto others! Safe travels!
Awww, sending love Dear Friend!
Hello Robin, I love nature and organic food, and I am happy to find your channel, I love to learn wild food and foraged for comsumer ❤
12:38 Yes!! It would change our perception on the world, how we view others, love for the planet!!! I love this video 💜
Reconnect with plants....
I look forward to this coming year of foraging! It is fun to imagine the world you describe, one where people are connected to the Earth. Isn't it ironic that nourishing ourselves from the land seems so extreme? I appreciate you!
I think the community is so important. It would be very challenging to do this but if we all work together we can live harmoniously with the land.
I had an epiphany... : "you are what you eat" therefore: if we eat capitalist big ag= your are a docile consumer. On the flip side if you do what your doing : " You are an agent of change... a force to be wreckoned with in terms of gaining indipendence for freedom: Love what you are doing.
This is beautiful. Thank you
Oh. I found the resources you posted. Thank you! 🌻
Very nice to see you comment on the calories, protein, fat and salt. A lot of people look at foraging and focus on fruit and greens which is, of course, not enough to sustain a human body.
Thank you Rob!
wow. excellent explanation overall nothing short of great
love the clips of picking and eating directly from the ground in public lol
Your work here is extraordinary!! However, not many people can do what you are doing. In my opinion, gardening is more approachable. I also a new gardener and always enjoy fresh and tasty foods from our backyard! We need more people to join gardening!
I love that you are acknowledging who this land belonged too. We lost the history of this land by doing so. I often think we all need to at least have a small garden like we used too.
Very impressive and inspiring
Thank you rob
Mindy here🙋♀️❤ I'm so glad to have meet you at the library here in Gulfport. What you are doing is so positive helpful and what we need. Help me make it to your talks please
Awwww, hello Dear Mindy!
I am so grateful for the joy we have shared together.
I look forward to seeing you February 5th at my Florida Permaculture Workshop with Eric Joseph Lewis in Gulfport.
Details here: www.robgreenfield.org/schedule/
your passion is truly inspiring! TY for sharing so much info with us.
Something you can try for using a whole fish is chitatap. Just chop everything really fine and make meatballs.
Rob you have such great energy and vibes. I truly respect your method to activism.
Big yes to all of it!
Excellent video lot to learns. 100% organic
Fantastic ❤
Thank you - learning how to connect with the earth here in NM - creating a tiny food forest, and I grow our own medicinals.... grateful to connect
You're an amazing person, who is so so inspiring!
Will be researching this further. Thank you.
You are a hero!
You are so inspiring Rob! Stepping from fear and overwhelm into empowerment!
You are amazing! 💖
Imagine seeing this guy at the park eating grass with your dog 🐩 lol
Hi Rob, I love what you do, you're a massive inspiration
Good video. Wow! One year of foraging? Very impressive.
i'm foraging some haterade rn
Great mission. Thank!
Thank you for doing all the work you do. So much respect ❤
Hater gonna hate. Love your content. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us all.
YOUR THE MOST LEGENDARY HUMAN! WE ALL NEED THESE SKILLS!
Totally important!!! Thank you 💗
We need a book that has everything you need to forage successfully. Having to do research on your specific area and what is edible is not always a resource we have. We want to do is safely essentially.
Well, the great news is that those books exist. My favorite are the series of three books by Sam Thayer
Links to these books and other resources can be found here at my foraging resource guide: robgreenfield.org/foraging
I found a good colored book for all the edible plants in the Western United States, I hike the Sierras often and want to know what's out there.
This is so cool! I love watching your videos on sustainability and conservation of the planet. You actually inspired me to start dumpster diving about 2 years ago, and now I look at this video and think, "There is so much food to go around!!". I appreciate your efforts, and I believe that you are inspiring a great deal of people all over the globe to live better lives. Thank you very much for all your hard work!