I met Jaime in ‘The Courtyard’ in Falmouth, excellent food by the way, we got talking and the subject quickly turned to our great love of the outdoors, foraging and exploring the local countryside for scrummy things to eat. When we met again he told me all about his project of putting together a handmade book which focused on Cornwall and the people who chose, as much as possible, to live off the land. He’s interviewed people with thriving seaweed business, people who shoot rabbits as their main food source, fishermen and recreational foragers. and has put together an original book about what it means to them to live sustainably. To be honest I have a hatred of warehouse food, I can almost feel the cells of my body relinquishing any sense of joy when walking around the likes of Tesco’s. Yes, it’s a necessary part of life to buy toilet roll in a fluorescent floodlit shed but… there’s a cost
Jaime asked me to write a forward to his gorgeous book and I welcomed doing it. It’s full of lovely photographs as he’s studying photography at Falmouth. At the moment there is a limited print run but hopefully a publishing house will notice it and it will be more widely available.
