Your guide Joshua Sylvester is experience educated in wildcrafting and wilderness survival. Growing up hunting and fishing in the dense Maine forests has proven to be priceless skills.
Today Joshua a sixth generation native lives over a mile into the wooded coastal landscape of Searsport, Maine, with his wife, Cindy and three children, where his naturalist skills have blossomed with personal education, practical application, and trial and error.
Wildcrafting
Taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wildcrafting is the practice of harvesting plants from their natural, or "wild" habitat, for food, medicinal, or other purposes. It applies to uncultivated plants wherever they may be found, and is not necessarily limited to wilderness areas. Ethical considerations are often involved, such as protecting endangered species. When wildcrafting is done sustainably with proper respect, generally only the branches or flowers from plants are taken and the living plant is left, or if it is necessary to take the whole plant, seeds of the plant are placed in the empty hole from which the plant was taken. Care is taken to only remove a few plants, flowers, or branches, so plenty remains to continue the supply.
Searsport, Maine
Searsport was settled in the 1670s and incorporated on February 13, 1845 from portions of Prospect and Belfast, Maine. Searsport was named after David Sears of Boston after he agreed to grant a large sum of money towards the town's founding. Searsport is noted for its rich maritime history. During the nineteenth century the port had 17 shipyards and built 200 ships, while supplying fully one-tenth of the nation's Merchant Marine deep water captains.
