By Fergus Drennan
Permaculture
How we grow, source, process, prepare and relate to foods is a fundamental dimension of the permaculture way. My expertise lies in the realm of wild, feral or otherwise non-cultivated but important potential food crops that have a vital part to play in more holistic and sustainable ways of living.
Wild plants are their own reasons, their own ends, having an intrinsic validity and truth beyond any means-to-end perception of their utility as potential food that you or I might wish to impose on them. Yet in a peak or post-peak oil world, wild foods inhabit a unique and pivotal realm between worlds past, present and future.
