Ray Mears – www.raymears.com Woodlore – BBC – RAY MEARS WILD FOOD – WOODLAND – For our ancestors, Autumn would have been the last chance to gather food before winter stole much of it away. Nuts are an obvious source of stored energy. Ray travels to the island of Colonsay in Scotland to investigate the remains of thousands of charred hazelnuts which date back to the Stone Age.
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I’m only discovering this show now this weekend…but I’ve learned so much watching this series. Thanks for uploading!
I just want to ask a question, maybe someone here has the answer. But if you put the acorn in the water for the toxins to wash out wouldn’t that remove a lot of fat and nutritions as well?
@ArronTattersall Exactly. And they should get on with ceasing to cut down trees anywhere. There are alternatives to using wood for for all its uses; hemp is super-strong and can be used to make pretty much anything that they make out of wood. Deforestation makes the Earth ill and it makes us ill; we need the trees to breathe properly and they take the trees away and give us pollutants in our air to breathe instead. Somehow that’s not a satisfying tradeoff…
Hey Ritchie, thanks for the upload hope you and your family have a great Christmas.
does anyone else not like Gordon he just seems to get in Rays way all the time
do you get paid?
Someone should get on with putting wildlife, plants and trees on that island.
thanks for uploading ritchie,
I think i’m going to watch all of your ray mears videos now.
im so wet
I think I’m gona try the acorn meal this year 2011 and cook it with hot rocks… cal it bushcraft OakPatty delight lol
Dont you know where the forest part takes place in?
Right…… i’m off to the woods, i’ll watch the other parts later.
wonder how many of our ancesters were in my town of lowestoft most eastly place in england
Thanks Ritchie! I just want to point out to anyone interested in making acorn meal that boiling the (unground) for a couple times leeches the tannin out of them.
i watch this like a religion and i cant believe i know something i know “better” than Ray…
[bows head and rests hand on chest] I am humbled
thanks for the uploads Ritchie… been watching ur uploads like its a friggin religion lol
ur supposed to leach the tannin out of the acorns before you crush it
crack the acorn and put it for 2 days in a stream while raw. then toast to remove the husks.
THEN crush it. crushing then leaching leaches too much starch and fat, both essential for bread making and adding to porridges, etc.
he actually could have used that bag he had from the aborigines.
I wish Ray would do more shows!!
Ray replaint the trees????
no end thanks Ritchie Powell your a true gentleman sharing this to us:)
@RitchiePowell Yes, Thanks for the uploads. Mears is the man :-] Every time I watch his show I get 2 things- an itch to go outdoors and head into the woods… and hungry! ;P
ahh, I meant to say ‘keep uploading’. That was just a typo!
Please keep more episodes like this, Ritchie. Thanks!
Thanks a lot Ritchie!
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