My name is Ben and I care a lot about food. For most of human history food was simple: Eat what’s around you, just not the poisonous stuff.

Unfortunately, it’s all got a bit complicated. We have these weird new foods like vegetable oil (how do you get oil from a vegetable?) and invert corn syrup (mmm sounds nutritious!). These strange new industrially produced foods trick our monkey brains into wanting more and more without providing any real nourishment. Our ancestors didn’t have this problem. Back then all the poisonous foods tasted awful.

As our collective health deteriorates, our obsession with the latest diet fad rapidly increases. Meanwhile, we are degrading the land, plowing it up, and spraying nasty chemicals that push out the wildlife that used to thrive there. Our rural communities are dying with young people forced into the cities in search of employment.

A few years ago I decided I wanted to be part of the solution. I went to work as a farmer, working and learning all over the UK from food producers doing things a bit differently. They were all striving to produce high-quality food for their local communities in a way that enriched the land they farmed. I worked hard and learned a lot. Although, somewhere along the line I discovered something else on those farms. I realised there was lots I could eat that grew on its own, with no early starts or hard labour required. I spotted deer in the fields on my way to feed the cows, I gorged on blackberries from the brambles I was so often sent to war against, and I pondered why I was weeding out the nettle from the vegetable patch when it was so much more nutritious than the vegetables I was protecting. Slowly but surely it dawned on me that it’s the hunter-gatherer life for me.

I’m now on a quest to rediscover our lost hunter-gatherer past and I hope you’ll join the tribe! Whether you’re a wild food enthusiast, paleo dieter, or just a human who wants to feel great, everyone’s welcome because wild food offers everyone a path back to health, not just for ourselves but for all life.

Oh, and it tastes great!