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Pioneering Today

EP: 462 Foraging Freedom: Find Wild Mushrooms & Cut Your Grocery Bill

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9931 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

From a preparedness standpoint, knowing how to identify and properly harvest and prepare wild edibles means you'll be able to feed yourself (and your family) if ever the need arises. In this podcast interview, Whitney (The Appalachian Forager) and I are discussing some common foraging basics to keep you safe, as well as some basic mushroom identification tips you'll want to study before you go out foraging.

For more information and any links mentioned in today’s podcast, visit https://melissaknorris.com/462

 

 

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15 years ago, I was taking prescription medications up to six times a day to try and quell the

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horrible stomach acid that I had, and I ended up having to have my stomach in upper

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esophagus biopsyed for cancer. Good news is I did not have cancer, but what I had was erosion

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at the beginning of cellular change,

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which the specialist told me means the next time you come back into my office,

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you likely will have a very different test result, and you're on your way to having cancer.

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I came home and drastically changed everything from the way that we cooked, the body care

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items that we used, and the foods that I was eating. Within six months, I was able to come off

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of all of the prescription medications completely heal my stomach and I have never had to go back on

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packed with even more timeless wisdom, handmade skills, and from scratch recipes. This is the book that I wish I

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had had when I was trying to figure out how to redo everything. This book is going to help

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It has over a hundred recipes, including 20 brand new ones.

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There's an expanded do-it-yourself and handmade projects from SAVs to home essentials and herbal remedies,

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