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Originally Posted by ImthatIm
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Good on him! – whoever he is.
In Norway, Sweden and Finland you have “Allemannsretten” (= All Men’s Right) to camp on anybody’s land in the wilderness and to fish and pick berries and mushrooms and herbs, but of course
you have to do so without harming the environment.
If you have the best berry picking grounds in the forest on your land – you are traditionally responsible and accountable to the whole village to only take what you need and do sensible logging that does not disturb the forest floor.
And of course as a kid – you learn to make a shelter of them “Christmas trees” – if you ever do get stuck in the forest during the snow storm.
Traditionally
you also have to listen to the wisdom of those
highly respected Tree Elders - where to build your cabin/house (= a kind of a "vision quest").
Also – you
know when you have entered the
“Council of Tree Elders” – be it a Melaleuca forest across the world.
What you cannot do on somebody’s land is to hunt or harvest the chaga mushroom or to drain the sap of the birch trees during the
Earth Moon (i.e. March when the earth comes visible from the snow) and drink the “renewal of life” - water.
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Heh – I have got one of those fire starters (in the video) from Lapland – have tried the Aboriginal way, but am hopeless at that despite the tutoring.
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