What are some ways to sustain food on a small forest island for one person?!
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Fishing is obvious, but you wouldn't eat just fish every day would you? Since it's all trees it would be probably hard to grow anything there? Am I wrong? Perhaps chickens or cattle? But then again you would need to feed them with something.
So yeah, I am wondering it it would be possible at all for a person to survive on this kind of island in long term without ever leaving it except for fishing. And I'd like to know what are some ways that you could sustain food for yourself there.
Answers:
You'd eat fish every day if you had to...
There are a lot more edible wild plants than you might think - you could forage for leaves and berries to a certain extent. Without a doubt, you'd have to forget the common indulgent modern diet and learn to survive on much less food.
Realistically, you'd probably have to cultivate a small area of land and grow vegetables, and perhaps keep chickens or rabbits (don't go introducing any animals that don't belong, mind). Rabbits breed like, well, nobody's business, and a small colony could keep you going forever, if you were prepared to do the necessary. They produce excellent manure for adding to veg plots as well...
Suggest you start practising growing vegetables and study wild foods for the area you're planning to move to. Probably worth studying the diets of forest-dwelling tribes and imitating their diets as far as you can - they've had thousands of years of learning what's good and what's not.
Sounds exciting - I plan to do something similar someday. Good luck!
