BIRDS OF A FEATHER

A conversation with hunting-and-gath ering enthusiast Hank Shaw

For many, it is a dream to live off the land - eat the wild greens that grow in the back yard, fish the local streams for food, hunt if you want to.

But this dream is unrealistic, right? There's no way that a person can get all the food they eat, or even a majority of it, off the land. Well, it's possible if you're Hank Shaw.

Shaw is at the top of an ever-growing list of those who make a career living off the land. Call it hyper-localism if you want, but Shaw is the real deal - he hunts, fishes and gathers the majority of his calories. Hank has chronicled this culinary journey is his new book, Hunt, …