Hi friends, it's me, Amber, back with episode 95, yet another somewhat spontaneous solo

episode where I have something exciting to share and I think lots of you will like listening

to it. We have some really exciting news for our family and if you are, you know, a fan

of what we do and what we offer then, it's exciting news for you too, because it's

going to just upgrade everything. I mean, I like try to save that till later, but I have

a feeling I'm going to have to have to announce it sooner. So yeah, you read the title,

this episode is about exiting the over culture and herbalism, home studying, home birth,

home schooling, home schooling, gardening. We've been chicken keeping, although we're

going to stop. Maybe I'll talk about that. Just kind of sharing our journey as so many

people are realizing they don't want the life that was presented to them as the ideal.

So I have told the story numerous times on this podcast that I heard Stephen Herod

Beauty or the herbalist who I interviewed on episode eight say once that when he used

to teach and he taught many, many, many classes and workshops over decades, he would ask

people what brought you to herbalism. And for some people, it would be that they had

always had a connection to plants and since childhood, they were, you know, in the woods

talking to the flowers, but that wasn't very many people. Some people and also small percentage

of plants saved their life. They had a major medical issue that modern medicine was not

properly addressing and they found herbalism and it turned everything around for them.

But what the vast majority of people say is that I don't know, I just feel called. That's

100% my story with herbalism and it's also my story with exiting the over culture and

choosing a more home steady, sustainable life, which I have to be honest and say clearly

I'm still very much online. I still get the vast majority of my food from the grocery

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