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#Fergus Drennan
bumblebeeappletree · 1 year
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Fergus Drennan is a professional forager who often sleeps in a solo tent in the woods to be closer to the wild materials he collects for eating, tanning, and druid-like experimenting. Foraging for food is just one aspect of his bushcraft (which includes making clothing, fire, and shelter).
For decades he’s been collecting mushrooms and plants for food. He’s spent 11 months of the year living on wild food alone (only February remains elusive), but when funding allows, he hopes to dedicate more time to completing his Year-Long 100% Wild Food Experiment.
He's a vegetarian except for what he calls “accidental meat” (he was "The Roadkill Chef" for a BBC show produced by Jamie Oliver's company). He also uses “found” animal skins to create leather drumheads.
More recently, he has been preparing and tanning fish skins donated from sushi restaurants so his archeologist partner Charissa van Eijk can turn them into handbags, wallets, and jewelry. Together they teach courses in fish skin tanning that “goes far beyond (although not excluding) the traditional and well-known tanning methods using bark, eggs, brains, and urine.”
Not believing in the separation between life, play, and work, Fergus recognizes that all roads lead to a life embedded in nature, providing physical sustenance and psychological nourishment.
Fish Skin Tanning Course:
https://eequ.org/experience/1930
Fergus aka "Fergus The Forager":
https://fergustheforager.co.uk/
Craefty Salmon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32730779
Charissa Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/craeftychaga/
On *faircompanies: https://faircompanies.com/videos/wild..
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werewolfetone · 5 months
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Do you know of any good books about 18th century Belfast? I'm thinking of making a story set partly there and I want to learn more about what daily life was like there, society, culture, etc :0
Yeah!!! The Life And Times Of Mary Ann Mccracken: A Belfast Panorama by Mary McNeill is pretty good + another book I would recommend is A Deeper Silence by ATQ Stewart (which is a book about a variety of things including the volunteer movement, the second stupidest sectarian dispute in belfast's history (⬅️ I do not say that lightly), and the time the french took over carrickfergus for no reason masquerading as a book about the united irishmen). in terms of primary sources the Drennan letters are very good as an example of correspondence between 2 people who lived in belfast in the 1770s - 1810s but they're also very long & I'm not sure if they're available online -- if you don't want to read them the McCracken letters ARE available online & present an alternative but they're much smaller in scope + also were written during an extremely specific situation so they aren't the best for learning about the general situation. RR Madden's Lives & Times Of The United Irishmen includes a few fascinating cultural details as does Thomas Russell's journal if you can find it. to understand the religious ethos of the city you might read Dissent Into Treason by Fergus Whelan, which is about the dissenter tradition of politics in 18thc ireland. in the event there are loyalists in your story Orangeism: A Historical Profile by Kevin Haddick-Flynn includes in its early chapters a very recent & very accessible guide to belfast & wider irish 18thc loyalism. also if you're writing a story set during the french revolution I would recommend reading Thomas Paine's The Rights Of Man because, as is attested by Wolfe Tone, nearly every single person in belfast read it and people talked about it constantly
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