![]() ![]() Let’s be honest: at first it’s frankly repellent. There are also nettle roots, wild carrots. You dig it out with a knife and eat it raw. ![]() I discover the willowherb with its edible root. Bramble, silver birch, hornbeam and bay leaves, “dry” fruits such as chestnuts, beechnuts, seeds or hazelnuts, and also dandelions and sorrel. In fact, in order to survive, I decide that my most efficient strategy is to eat what I already have at my disposal. Hauling my shopping back into the forest in a 50-litre rucksack is, frankly, exhausting. All the tins are disembowelled by their razor-sharp trotters. Unfortunately, a few days later, wild boar discover my hoard. I buy tins of food and hide them at the foot of a tree, under a pile of branches and dead leaves. I cannot imagine living in a natural habitat and eating the wild animals that live there, even though nature is obviously overflowing with predators. I decide to follow an omnivorous but vegetarian-inclined diet. To keep them from rotting, I store these clothes in sealed bags in a rucksack, buried in the forest.įor cooking, I use only a small aluminium frying pan and a pot for boiling water. First of all, a change of clothes to keep out the cold: two pairs of canvas trousers and a pair of jeans, alpaca wool underpants, linen T-shirts, virgin-wool pullovers and two seaman’s caps. I keep the modern world out as much as possible, retaining only what is strictly necessary. I base myself in the east, on a big overhanging rock called la Crutte, which dominates the whole of the Seine valley. If I travel from east to west, I pass through vegetation made up principally of pines and beech trees to reach a denser forest of oak and wild cherries. Its horseshoe shape melds perfectly with the fourth bend in the Seine. Bord-Louviers is a forest of 4,500 hectares (11,120 acres) located in the département of Eure.
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