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Hi from me, Melanie Sawyer

I have always been completely fascinated about all things to do with foraging, wilderness survival and history.
In 2022 I created both Wilderness Teas here and also WILD FOODS, a website to help give everyone access to edible plants, rhizomes, berries, nuts, lichens, mushrooms and cambium that their ancestors successfully lived on in the centuries before us.

Because of my knowledge I was approached by History Channels Survival show ALONE and ultimately went out to the Arctic to test my skills, I was out for 42 days, came 4th and feel blessed to have had the opportunity.

More about my experience on the Alone Show, Season 10

I was invited to try out for Season Ten and managed to be picked as one of the 10 participants of History Channels ALONE Show, to test my skills. I was dropped off completely without human contact in the wilds of the Canadian Arctic, built me shelter, fished, trapped, foraged and basically lived in the way that I teach as a historical living history interpreter of the 1700's. I feel confident that with my knowledge of Traditional Skills plus both modern and hstorical Foraging I was as successful as I was. As well as teaching and encouraging both adults and children alike to learn more about Foraging and Wilderness Survival, I am often invited to be a key note speaker at events and schools, please do get in touch if you would like me to attend yours.