Food

After starting the project we learnt that Seven Acres would have been a source of food for many local people in the past. Led by staff from Lancashire Wildlife Trust we visited Seven Acres to explore whether there was any remaining wild food at the site. We found many fruits including blackberries and apples which would have been foraged along with nuts such as those from the Hazel tree. As a group we discussed what types of meat you could catch at Seven Acres and decided that rabbit and pigeon pie would have been most popular.

During our experience of living as a woodlander at Middlewood Ecological Trust, Lancaster we learnt how to light fires and cooked our food over the fire. Our course instructor, Bambi, told us how people would have lived in the woods like we had for long periods of time and what types of the food they would have foraged from the land to keep healthy.

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