I'm Tyler Webster, and this is a Western Wing Shooter podcast, presented by OnX Hunt and Boss Shotshells. Hey, everybody. Today's going to be a little bit of a different podcast.

We've talked a little bit about trapping and stuff like that on this show in the past.

Everybody kind of knows that I grew up as a fox trapper with my grandpa.

Today on the show, we have Jake from New England Naturals.

I just kind of got turned on to your Instagram page, Jake, here, in about the last two months, and I've been obsessed with it.

It's unbelievable how good of a job you guys do promoting hunting in such a positive, or trapping in such a positive way.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you very much for taking some time.

Would you mind kind of introducing yourself and telling us a little

bit about how you got the, how you got New England Natural started? Yeah, absolutely. Well, first,

thanks for having me, Tyler. I really appreciate it. And I'm excited to talk about trapping or birds,

wherever it goes. But yeah, so we started New England Naturals in 2017. And we is my wife and I, Riley and myself.

And we started it as actually, we had made too much Chaga extract.

And I know that has nothing to do with trapping, but it's kind of a roundabout way.

Chaga extract.

Yeah.

So Chaga is a medicinal mushroom.

And my wife is a natural product chemist and so she was

in school at the time and you know found this mushroom that was really cool and essentially we made

too much of a tincture which is kind of a souped up tea that has medicinal qualities and we said geez

what are we going to do with this well we decided we decided we would try to sell it on Etsy.

And so we kind of started an Etsy and started selling Chaga. Well, that next year, we, uh, well, again, we were trapping at the time, but that next year, we sold our fur into the fur market.

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