# The Wilderness Cure: What Happens When We Eat the Wild with Mo Wilde

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Podcast: [The Wild Minds Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-wild-minds-podcast-6369140)
Published: 2026-06-08T04:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode, I’m speaking with Mo Wilde - forager, research herbalist, ethnobotanist, author of The Wilderness Cure , and founder of the Wild Biome Project. Mo has spent decades learning from plants, fungi, seaweeds, medicine, soil and the seasons. Her relationship with the wild began in childhood, and has grown into a life’s work exploring not only what plants can offer us, but what happens when we remember ourselves as part of the living world. In 2020, Mo began an extraordinary experiment: for a whole year, she ate only wild food. No supermarket food, no farmed food, no quick stops for coffee and cake — just what could be foraged, gathered, hunted, exchanged, preserved, fermented or found within the landscape around her. But this conversation is not really about survivalism. It is not about going “backwards” or romanticising the past. It is about relationship. What happens when we begin to notice the green world in detail again? What happens when the body is nourished by wild plants, fungi and microbes? What happens to our gut, our sense of belonging, our imagination, our resilience — when food stops being just a product and becomes a relationship with place? Together, Mo and I explore foraging, wild food, food security, children’s ecological literacy, the intelligence of plants, the Wildbiome Project, and the deep shift from scarcity into abundance. This is a conversation about the wilderness cure — and the question at the heart of it is: what happens when we eat the wild? In this conversation with Mo Wilde, we explore wild food not simply as foraging, but as a way of remembering our place inside the living world. Mo begins with gratitude for plants, reminding us that through photosynthesis they transform sunlight into the energy that makes all life on Earth po…

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