95. Exiting the Overculture: Herbalism, Homesteading, & Unschooling My Mind
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Amber M Hill
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🗓️ 16 September 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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My family’s slow, meandering, imperfect journey toward what semblance of ancestral living we can scrape together in the 21st century.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, it's me, Amber, back with episode 95, yet another somewhat spontaneous solo |
| 0:12.2 | episode where I have something exciting to share and I think lots of you will like listening |
| 0:19.5 | to it. We have some really exciting news for our family and if you are, you know, a fan |
| 0:28.7 | of what we do and what we offer then, it's exciting news for you too, because it's |
| 0:32.8 | going to just upgrade everything. I mean, I like try to save that till later, but I have |
| 0:38.8 | a feeling I'm going to have to have to announce it sooner. So yeah, you read the title, |
| 0:45.9 | this episode is about exiting the over culture and herbalism, home studying, home birth, |
| 0:53.0 | home schooling, home schooling, gardening. We've been chicken keeping, although we're |
| 1:00.3 | going to stop. Maybe I'll talk about that. Just kind of sharing our journey as so many |
| 1:05.9 | people are realizing they don't want the life that was presented to them as the ideal. |
| 1:15.1 | So I have told the story numerous times on this podcast that I heard Stephen Herod |
| 1:21.8 | Beauty or the herbalist who I interviewed on episode eight say once that when he used |
| 1:28.0 | to teach and he taught many, many, many classes and workshops over decades, he would ask |
| 1:32.4 | people what brought you to herbalism. And for some people, it would be that they had |
| 1:37.7 | always had a connection to plants and since childhood, they were, you know, in the woods |
| 1:42.4 | talking to the flowers, but that wasn't very many people. Some people and also small percentage |
| 1:50.8 | of plants saved their life. They had a major medical issue that modern medicine was not |
| 1:56.5 | properly addressing and they found herbalism and it turned everything around for them. |
| 2:04.0 | But what the vast majority of people say is that I don't know, I just feel called. That's |
| 2:12.0 | 100% my story with herbalism and it's also my story with exiting the over culture and |
| 2:19.8 | choosing a more home steady, sustainable life, which I have to be honest and say clearly |
| 2:28.1 | I'm still very much online. I still get the vast majority of my food from the grocery |
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