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Josée Raymond's avatar

Hahaha! Beaver butt goo!

I so admire what you are doing and have accomplished. I woke up to the importance of food in my mid 20s only. Before this, I grew up on toasters streudels, lipton packaged noodles, the most disgusting minute steak, and second hand smoke. My parents claim I was a picky eater. I wonder why.

I now live cozily with my husband and 2 littles. We hunt big game, have a small garden, order from local farmers as much as possible (THANKYOU clickfork.ca), and also go to a grocery store.

What you write here Tara lights my fire. All I care about is food and family. I might not be 100% self sufficient, not even close, and I may never get there, but my focus right now is cooking and making nutrient dense meals.

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Summer Goon's avatar

Excellent read, thank you! I thrilled to follow along on your years worth.

The disconnect from our food runs deep. In 2019 I did a year long apprenticeship learning the wild foods and medicine of my region. One day I shared with an acquaintance about my experience and she was utterly dumbfounded that I would eat things I found growing wild. She felt it was dirty and had no conscious awareness that conventional grocery store produce also grows in (far less nutritious) dirt. Wild.

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