b'MAKERY & MISCHIEFMAINE MAN!Zachary FowlerMan is sent into wilderness for TV show and doesnt come A out for 87 daysfter reading Brendon Chase by B.B. I was obsessedsomeone doing some living-o-the-land, that a friend had sent with running away into the woods. I gather the bookto me. It was all about cattails and lobsters and I was jealous as fuelled dozens of runaways who did just that. For mehell of the location and what bounty it provided. It was the state it was about wild food and game. I fantasised aboutof Maine, USA. And although born in Vermont, Zachary now lives living o the land and got books about foraging andnext door in Maine and he catches lobsters.took catapult-poached pheasant into General Studies cookeryThe History Channel runs a survivalist series called Alone. and told Mrs. Flashman it was rabbit. Those lessons were inZachary was in season three and spent eighty-seven days days the girls school next door (heaven!) and I recall it all with realin the wilds of Patagonia, catching sixty three fish and a couple pleasure. Each lesson was a treat to me. Rabbit terrine, Cornishof birds, to win the series by staying out the longest. It won him pasties, all tasted so good that Mrs. Flashman told me to goa cool half million dollars. The Alone show was self documented, to catering college. Another time I took a teacher and a groupmeaning they filmed themselves. And when Zachary was done into the woods, gathered then fed them cooked nettle tops andwith the TV guys, he decided a YouTube channel was the best goosegrass. (Must be spring fresh growth and goosegrass stillway to carry on doing what he is so good at - survival challenges. has the scratchy surface after gentle cooking, which is odd inThe videos are brilliant and even have little easter eggs in here your throat but tasty.) and there. Today, his subscribers number 1.01 million. Search The interest grew via catch-and-cook sea angling, snorkellingFowlers Makery & Mischief.and spearfishing and I read all I could find about foraging. ItsI have adored Zachary ever since he included Slingshot World been lifelong. Oddly, I do recall reading a magazine article aboutmagazine in his videos one time. We start POV with the mail 024SlingshotWorld024-026 SSW005 fowler kit.indd 24 26/11/2021 14:28'