How many acres would a person need to go feral?

[tmax63]

Most of this doesn't fit Rainman's rules. If you was strictly hunting/gathering then you would need a long migration route to move with the seasons. Realistically speaking you would either be walking north or south depending in the season. Moving 10-15 miles a day with the stop and eat until bust when you stumble onto a good food source succh as a ripe berry patch or fresh killed meat. You would have to be almost always on the move.

[kccrow]

Originally Posted by tmax63

Most of this doesn't fit Rainman's rules. If you was strictly hunting/gathering then you would need a long migration route to move with the seasons. Realistically speaking you would either be walking north or south depending in the season. Moving 10-15 miles a day with the stop and eat until bust when you stumble onto a good food source succh as a ripe berry patch or fresh killed meat. You would have to be almost always on the move.

Dependent upon where you are maybe. Here in Michigan, you could sustain year-around off of what you find in the wild and really no migration is required. Plenty of wild plants, berries, roots, and fungi in addition to the wildlife. So much of it people don't see as edible either. Cattail, burdock, chicken of the woods fungus, chaga, etc. Tons of plants in the summer... ramps, garlic, asparagus, fire weed, milk weed, fiddlehead ferns, quarters, dandelion, chickory, etc. You have a plethora of nuts to store... Beach nuts, black walnuts, butternuts, acorns, etc... You can eat the inner bark of birch trees, poplars, willows, cedars and all conifers (except yew). Tap maples and sycamore for sap to make syrup. Sure, winter is a bitch, but alot of the roots, tree fungi, lichens, and so forth are still available to you plus you hopefully would make a nut store. Obviously you have plenty of sources of meat to try to for. The Natives didn't travel thousands of miles chasing herds so you wouldn't have to either.