Nick Weston

It's amazing what you can get up to in a tree house!

Wild food enthusiast and survival expert, Nick Weston, has taken it upon himself to step out of the rat-race and live in a tree house as a 21st Century hunter-gatherer. Although not all-out survival, as he allowed himself the basic food staples and access to the Internet, so that he can report back his progress via his blog.

This book is an account in diary format of how he spent six months
hunting, fishing and foraging, containing pictures, both colour and strangely brown and white, of which the majority of the book was printed. He shares his methods for not only building the tree house and other essentials like the toilet and oven, but also how he cooked some amazingly delicious looking meals (some that made me squirm with disgust) and beverages from the most natural sources. From basic bread, rabbit stew and roast pigeon to nettle pesto, wine and sloe gin.

It was a fun book, and although I wouldn't try replicating his experience, this would be a great guide for anyone lucky (or perhaps silly) enough to follow in his footsteps. For Nick Weston, this experience has proved to be a liberating period in his life, and even if there were tough times where things didn't always go as planned the highs definitely outweighed the lows and by the end he seemed genuinely sad to leave. If you are going to live out a childhood dream of roughing it on your own, you
may as well do it with Nick Weston's help. After all, he's done all the hard work for you.

Overall: It's amazing what you can do in Sussex with a stack of wooden planks and some family friends with a large amount of surplus land.… (plus d'informations)