A 27-year-old from Clapham has swapped his city life for a treehouse in an effort to live as sustainably as possible.
Nick Weston, 27, built his own treehouse and shower and - apart from surviving on £50 which covers his ammunition and supplies - is living self-sufficiently, hunting and growing his own food.
After leaving his job in the events industry, Mr Weston moved to woodland on the Kent and Sussex border in spring, and is four months into the six-month experiment to see what it is like to be a hunter-gatherer in the 21st century.
As well as fishing for trout and sets night lines to catch eel, he hunts and snares pigeons, rabbits and squirrels.
On his website Mr Weston, told of how he only learned of Michael Jackson's death three days after it happened.
He said: "I find myself blissfully unaware of what is going on in the real world.
"[It] took me three days to find out the man that wrote ‘Billy jean’ had passed on…here’s a “shamone” for you MJ, you legend.
"I have come to realise, obviously, that what I am doing is nothing new: humans have been living like this for thousands of years.
"What I can’t seem to work out is why we, in the 21st century, seem to get such a thrill out of going back to this primitive, basic way of life…when I figure it out, I will let you know."
Mr Weston, who plans to write about his experiences when he completes the task in October, described the problem of skinning rabbits.
He said: “To cure the pelts [the skin of an animal which still has fur on it] I have adopted a standard technique of not scraping off the fat from the pelt, pinning it to a board with nails, coating liberally with salt and sitting it in mosquito net for a few days undercover.
“The result is a good stiff skin perfect for a rug. I did one about a month ago that got wet and attacked by flies, it went a bit rank, so I did learn a valuable lesson - don't leave it out in the rain.”
Mr Weston - who has a vegetable patch growing runner beans, rocket, leeks, red onions, tomatoes, potatoes, marrows and spinach - is passing on his knowledge of foraging at a camping centre.
Last year Mr Weston appeared in Channel4's Shipwrecked - a loosely survival-based programme.
You can follow Mr Weston’s progress at huntergathercook.typepad.com.
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