Nick Weston

Nick Weston grew up in the Ashdown Forest in Sussex and spent much of his youth grubbing about in the woods, fishing, shooting and building camps. After studying Archaeology, specialising in Hunter-Gatherer Societies, he decided to forego digging holes for a living and headed to London to work in the events industry as both a set designer and chef. In 2007, Nick spent three months in the Cook Islands as the resident ‘survival expert’ for the Channel 4 series Shipwrecked, where he passed on his skills to his fellow islanders.

In 2009, longing to quit the London rat race, he headed to the Sussex countryside and began work on his home for the next six months: a treehouse. The aim was to live as self-sufficiently as possible, completely off-grid as a 21st century hunter-gatherer. As a result of this experience, Nick wrote his first book, The Tree House Diaries: How to live wild in the woods, which was published by Anova Books on 17th May 2010. He has also written a column for Reader’s Digest, featured in his tree house on numerous news broadcasts and radio shows and been interviewed by national newspapers.  He continues to update his blog: www.huntergathercook.com on a regular basis.

Nick currently lives in Sussex where he teaches foraging, organises wild food supper clubs, designs and builds tree houses for various clients and offers talks about his experiences.  He does as much fishing, shooting and surfing as time allows and is working on plans for his next big adventure.