I TOLD YOU SO! Getting Back to the Basics

Yes, we all need to get back to the basics of hunting, fishing, raising animals, growing fruit trees, and growing gardens–like we did when we were kids.  Those were the good old days growing up in Hawaii.  I remember casting, pole fishing, and Samoan crabbing for sea foods.  I remember trapping mountain doves and also shooting them with sling shots, bows and arrows, and BB guns.  I remember gathering wild bee honey in the mountains.  I remember picking guavas, wild plums, mangoes, lilikoi, mountain apples, and other wild fruits.  I remember raising rabbits, pigeons, parakeets (not for eating though), beef steer, ducks, turkeys, chickens, and a cow.  All were good eats.

I remember growing gardens of all kinds of vegetables (lettuce, cabbage, string beans, radishes, carrots, corn, parsley, squash, etc.) and fruits (strawberries, watermelon, mangoes, star fruit, banana, coconut, etc.).   I once grew corn–the stocks of which went 14 feet up into the air!  I stood on our garage roof to harvest the corn.  Yes, we could live off the land then, and we can live off the land now.

In survival camp, you can eat almost anything that grows and moves. Hence, nobody should starve.  Remember the kinds of animals, insects, and foliage those on the movie “Survival” ate?  We can do the same and eat almost anything and everything.  Sea snails are a delicacy–better than escargot!  I’ve eaten turtle, rattlesnake, lion, fish brains, cow stomach (tripe stew), cow brains, cow tongue, mountain oysters, deer (venison), buffalo, anchovies, eel, raw fish, bread fruit, taro root, and bitter melon.  I get hungry just thinking about all of these foods that we consumed when we were young and growing up in Hawaii.  Happy hunting!

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