No matter what you do with the rest of your life, foraging gives you this focus that allows you to kind of come back to yourself, your world, your environment, and your health, and really brings that sacred cycle of life back into your life.

It just seems to engender a general feeling of happiness and an overall health to anybody that does it.

And I've had a lot of people over the years tell me that my books have changed their life.

And that's humbling, but it's also awesome because that's why I did it,

because it's changed my life. I didn't have a very good childhood. It gave me an outlet for my energy and it gave me food. It gave me health and I learned that nature would never let me down as long as I played by her rules and that offer stands for everybody.

From the Weston A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for

Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts. We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help

you achieve optimal health.

Hey, Helilda here.

Foraging is one of the most practical life skills we can learn.

Whether you live in the city, the suburbs, or out in the countryside, nature consistently provides an abundance of wild

edible foods that are ours for the taking.

They offer a wonderful variety of flavors along with nutritional profiles that make foraging a legitimate source of true local food.

This is episode 285 and our guest today is Samuel Thayer.

Sam is the author of Foragers Harvest and Nature's Garden.

He is a foraging educator and wild food gatherer who began survival camping at age 14.

Basically it was Sam's difficult childhood. who began survival camping at age 14.

Basically it was Sam's difficult childhood

that practically forced him to learn

at a very young age how to care

for his nutritional needs through foraging.

That life skill broadened into a lifelong quest to learn to

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