Podcasts about Euell Gibbons

If you frequently step outside your home, you'll encounter numerous plants along the way. However, have you ever paused to consider the potential uses of these plants? Join Wendi as she talks about how to recognize edible plants. This topic is essential because it can be beneficial during difficult times! Stay tuned! Here's what to expect on the podcast:How can you tell which plants are safe to eat?What are two commonly found edible plants?Why is it helpful to know which plants are safe to eat?How can dandelion and wild violet be used for culinary purposes?And much more! Resources:Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons - https://amzn.to/3F6s6nmA Forager's Harvest by Samuel Thayer - https://amzn.to/3F6efNDNature's Garden by Samuel Thayer - https://amzn.to/3ZLCAlwBenefits of Dandelion - https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324083#10-possible-health-benefitsBenefits of Wild Violet - https://chestnutherbs.com/violets-edible-and-medicinal-uses/ Connect with Wendi Bergin!Website: https://joyfullyprepared.com/Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/joyfulprepInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyfulprepper/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/selfreliantmoms/Container Gardening Course: https://joyfulprep.kartra.com/page/containergardeningcourseDownload Home Storage Checklist: https://www.joyfullyprepared.com/52weeksPowder Milk Booklet: https://joyfullyprepared.com/milk-page/10 Creative Uses for Freeze-Dried Food: https://joyfullyprepared.com/fdfood/

Grandpa Bill talks Cognitive decline is a serious health issue worldwide, but in many cases, there are ways to reverse the damage, prevent the death of neurons and regenerate neuronal pathways. Lion's mane mushroom is an important medicinal food that can promote the biosynthesis of nerve growth factor and effectively combat dementia.Medicinal foods like lion's mane mushroom can heal damaged neurons while promoting new neuron growth. In this episode of the BH Sales Kennel Kelp Holistic Healing Hour, host Grandpa Bill welcomes special guest Euell Gibbons, the legendary wild food enthusiast. Together, they explore the concept of "MIND-ful Menus" - a holistic approach to dementia prevention that combines the principles of the MIND diet with Euell's expertise in wild foods. Grandpa Bill asks Euell a series of probing questions, such as: Euell shares his insights on how to find and prepare nutritious wild foods, and emphasizes the importance of living a healthy lifestyle overall. He encourages listeners to get outside, exercise, and connect with loved ones. #DementiaPrevention, #MINDDiet, #BrainHealth, #HolisticWellness, #EuellGibbons,#GrandpaBill, #WildEats, #FoodieForager, #Nature'sWisdom, #EatTheRainbow, #FamilyHealth, #LivingNutz, #MaineMade, Holistic Health Secrets and Life-Sales Strategies with Grandpa Bill Nourish Your Soul, Boost Your Business: The BH Sales Kennel Kelp Holistic Healing Hour Experience Website: https://www.7kmetals.com/grandpabill Website:https://www.myctfo.com/index.html YouTube: Bill Holt@billholt8792 Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/bill.sales.524 Social Media:https://www.instagram.com/bradybrodyboy12/ Voicemail Message Board: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bhsales BH Sales Kennel Kelp Holistic Healing Hour Retired holistic health enthusiast, Grandpa Bill, shares his wisdom and experiences in the realms of health, wealth, and well-being. Join Grandpa Bill on his journey of holistic health and personal growth. With over 45 years of experience in the industry, he has a wealth of knowledge to share on topics ranging from nutrition and supplements, to meditation and spirituality. In his retirement, Grandpa Bill is dedicated to sharing his insights and helping others to achieve their full potential. He is an intuitive thinker, humorist, star seed, poetry fan, with a passion for history and coins. Hosted by Grandpa Bill, 45 year career now retired Disclaimer:This podcast site content is provided for informational purposes only, and does not intend to substitute professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. JOIN US EVERY TUESDAY AT 6 PM. EST. https://freedomsnap.org/Seth/ BH Sales Kennel Kelp Holistic Virtual Mall Patriot Supply Link:  ⁠⁠https://mypatriotsupply.com/?rfsn=5615494.137cb6⁠⁠ Health Ranger Link: ⁠⁠https://www.healthrangerstore.com/?⁠⁠rfsn=301296.96452b2&utm_source=HR_Affiliate&utm_campaign=14708&utm_affiliate=301296⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Healer.com⁠⁠⁠: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.HealerCBD.com/?ref=11⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bhsales/message

Grandpa Bill continues today, with Virtual Guests Mr.Magoo & Ewell Gibbons. Welcome back to the Mnemonic Mr. Magoo podcast, where we explore the remarkable journey of Ebenezer Scrooge, now transformed into the modern-day Mr. Magoo, a man of great business acumen and compassion. Today, we're joined by renowned health and nutrition expert, #Dr. Ewell Gibbons, as we delve into the world of health and wellness, using #Dr. Anthony Metivier, Magnetic Memory Method Techniques to unlock the secrets of a healthier future. It's clear that the collaboration between Mr. Magoo, Dr. Ewell Gibbons, and Dr. Anthony Metivier and his Magnetic Memory Method Techniques is having a positive impact on the lives of many. By combining their expertise and passion for health and wellness, they are empowering individuals to make informed choices and lead healthier, happier lives.Euell Gibbons: A Life in the WildOpens in a new windowwww.nepm.orgEuell Gibbons with a basket of wild mushrooms Euell Gibbons was an American naturalist and author who is best known for his book Stalking the Wild Asparagus. He was a pioneer in the field of wild food advocacy, and he helped to dispel the misconceptions about wild foods and demonstrated their safety, nutritional value, and culinary versatility. Gibbons's work inspired millions of people to embrace a healthier lifestyle, incorporating wild foods into their diets. In this episode, we will explore the life and legacy of Euell Gibbons. We will learn about his early life, his passion for wild food, and his contributions to the field of nutrition and environmental conservation. We will also discuss his role as a saint in the God's Gardeners, a fictional religious sect in Margaret Atwood's 2009 novel The Year of the Flood. This episode is a must-listen for anyone who is interested in wild food, nutrition, or environmental conservation. I hope you enjoy it! #MnemonicMrMagoo #HealthierFuture #DrEwellGibbons #DrAnthonyMetivier Gibbons is considered a saint by the God's Gardeners, a fictional religious sect that is the focus of Margaret Atwood's 2009 novel The Year of the Flood.[ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bhsales/message

Here's what to expect on the podcast:How can you tell which plants are safe to eat?What are two commonly found edible plants?Why is it helpful to know which plants are safe to eat?How can dandelion and wild violet be used for culinary purposes?And much more! Resources:Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons - https://amzn.to/3F6s6nmA Forager's Harvest by Samuel Thayer - https://amzn.to/3F6efNDNature's Garden by Samuel Thayer - https://amzn.to/3ZLCAlwBenefits of Dandelion - https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324083#10-possible-health-benefitsBenefits of Wild Violet - https://chestnutherbs.com/violets-edible-and-medicinal-uses/ Connect with Wendi Bergin!Website: https://joyfullyprepared.com/Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/joyfulprepInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyfulprepper/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/selfreliantmoms/Container Gardening Course: https://joyfulprep.kartra.com/page/containergardeningcourseDownload Home Storage Checklist: https://www.joyfullyprepared.com/52weeksPowder Milk Booklet: https://joyfullyprepared.com/milk-page/10 Creative Uses for Freeze-Dried Food: https://joyfullyprepared.com/fdfood/

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 817, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: ranks and measures 1: In the U.S. this document is the highest law in the land. the Constitution. 2: Amplified rock music and a very close thunderclap hit 120 on this noise scale. decibel scale. 3: A low grade of copier paper, it's also the weight for a standard bowling ball. 16 pounds. 4: What the British call a billion, a 1 followed by 12 zeros, we call this. trillion. 5: In the old Hindu caste system the twice-born castes were the Vaisyas, the Kshatriyas and this, which included priests. Brahmins. Round 2. Category: variety pack 1: In 1956 this Brynner played King Mongkut on screen. Yul Brynner. 2: This log traditionally goes into the fireplace at Christmas. yule log. 3: In the '70s this Gibbons became the spokesman for the health benefits of Grape-Nuts cereals. Euell Gibbons. 4: It's the first word in the title of the original name of the show on which Phil Silvers played Sgt. Bilko. You'll (Never Get Rich). 5: Off Detroit, you'll find Belle this. Isle. Round 3. Category: legends 1: The man whom Miles Standish asked to have a chat with Priscilla. John Alden. 2: This legendary outlaw was said to be an early name Robert Fitz-ooth, born in Nottinghamshire. Robin Hood. 3: Scottish water spirits called Kelpies take the shape of these animals and drown their riders. horses. 4: Calamity Jane boasted that she rode for this short-lived delivery service. Pony Express. 5: Container Mary Hays used to bring water to the troops at the Battle of Monmouth. pitcher (hence the name "Molly Pitcher"). Round 4. Category: perils 1: Jean Lussier and William Fitzgerald are among those who've gone over this landmark in a barrel and survived. Niagara Falls. 2: On April 13, 1970, this space mission turned perilous as Haise, Lovell and Swigert had to abandon the main ship. Apollo 13. 3: In the highest helicopter rescue ever, American Seaborne Weathers was plucked from this mountain in 1996. Everest. 4: In 1974 his chute released early, causing him to plunge into a river canyon, not rocket across it. Evel Knievel. 5: Aleksandr Pushkin, Stephen Decatur and Button Gwinnett all died from wounds received in one of these. duel. Round 5. Category: well, duh! 1: The English word for this animal comes from the Greek "kamelos". camel. 2: Joan Embery reports that all birds have these, "A characteristic shared by no other type of animal". Feathers. 3: Waswahili are people who speak this language as their sole mother tongue. Swahili. 4: This brand of oats uses a man in Quaker garb in its logo. Quaker Oats. 5: The name of this fruit comes from its clusters' resemblance to a bunch of grapes. grapefruit. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Today in botanical history, we celebrate a British Spy/American Farmer, a social reformer and poet, and an American writer. We'll hear an excerpt from a book written by the beloved Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about homestead life - from growing great produce to canning and preserving. And then we'll wrap things up with a look back at Minnie Hite Moody's garden column from this day in 1980. She made a bouquet of weeds and then wrote about it.   Curated News The Complete Fall Garden Checklist | Garden Therapy | Stephanie Rose   Important Events September 24, 1789 Death of Metcalf Bowler, British-American merchant, and politician. As a young man, Metcalf came to America with his father. He successfully marketed a local apple known as the Rhode Island Greening Apple as part of his business. The apple later became the official state fruit of Rhode Island. A gentleman farmer, Metcalf himself was an avid horticulturist, and he was purported to have the most beautiful garden in the state. Metcalf was a successful merchant until the revolutionary war, which ruined him financially. In the 1920s, after stumbling on letters and examining handwriting, historians accidentally learned Metcalf had spied for the British. His love of nature may have inspired his code name: Rusticus. After the war, Metcalf wrote a book called A Treatise on Agriculture and Practical Husbandry(1786). Metcalf, the spy, sent a copy to George Washington, who wrote him back and tucked the copy away in his library.   September 24, 1825  Birth of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, African-American suffragist, social reformer, abolitionist, writer, and poet. Her famous quote is, “we are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity.” Her writing was mostly dedicated to her work for justice, but occasionally she would write about nature. Here's an excerpt from her poem The Crocuses: Soon a host of lovely flowers  From vales and woodland burst;  But in all that fair procession  The crocuses were first.    September 24, 1913  Birth of Wilson Rawls, American writer. His embarrassment caused him to burn his manuscripts so his fiancee, Sophie, wouldn't see them. Later she implored him to re-write one of the five stories from memory, which resulted in Where the Red Fern Grows (1961). The red fern was not an actual plant, but it served as the centerpiece of the novel. In the book, Wilson wrote, I had heard the old Indian legend about the red fern. How a little Indian boy and girl were lost in a blizzard and had frozen to death. In the spring, when they were found, a beautiful red fern had grown up between their two bodies. The story went on to say that only an angel could plant the seeds of a red fern and that they never died; where one grew, that spot was sacred.   Unearthed Words There were several things concerning which Miss Cornelia wished to unburden her soul. The funeral had to be all talked over, of course. Susan and Miss Cornelia thrashed this out between them; Anne took no part or delight in such ghoulish conversations. She sat a little apart and watched the autumnal flame of dahlias in the garden and the dreaming, glamorous harbor of the September sunset. Mary Vance sat beside her, knitting meekly. Mary's heart was down in the Rainbow Valley, whence came sweet, distance-softened sounds of children's laughter, but her fingers were under Miss Cornelia's eye. She had to knit so many rounds of her stocking before she might go to the valley. Mary knit and held her tongue but used her ears. “I never saw a nicer-looking corpse,” said Miss Cornelia judicially. “Myra Murray was always a pretty woman—she was a Corey.” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rainbow Valley   Grow That Garden Library Welcome to the Farm by Shaye Elliott This book came out in 2017, and the subtitle is How-to Wisdom from The Elliott Homestead. Shaye lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest. She's the founder of the blog, The Elliott Homestead. She is a beekeeper, gardener and enjoys preserving a variety of foods for the winter larder. This book is truly a welcome to the Elliott Farm, and Shaye shares everything she's gleaned about growing the good food right in her own backyard. Shaye teaches a ton in this book - how to harvest organic produce, plant an orchard, build a greenhouse, winter sowing and growing, make cider and wine, can jams and jellies, raise chickens and bees, and even milk a dairy cow (and make butter). , This book is 336 pages of jam-packed goodness from a mini-farm to help homesteaders and urban farmers alike. You can get a copy of Welcome to the Farm by Shaye Elliott and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $10.   Today's Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart September 24, 1980 On this day, Minnie Hite Moody wrote in her garden column about her bouquet made of weeds: Somehow or other I failed to get any flower seeds planted this past summer. June brought its plague of groundhogs, and what with replanting my beans and other necessities. July was here before I had caught up with myself, and then came the storms and rain. It was even too wet for me to go seeking Queen Anne's lace and daisies in the fringes of the golf course, though what with mechanical mowers and weed sprays, I would have had to search far and wide for the simple weed-blossoms once so familiar. So all through July and August I had to skrimish for enough blooms to enliven what in the Deep South is spoken of as the "eating table." I am used to flowers on the table, and while I receive more than my share of elegant hothouse flowers, they do not suit Grandma's plain white ash table with which she went to housekeeping in 1872. September, however, kindly improved my situation. Along my property frontage where the Ohio Electric railroad tracks predated the WPA sidewalk, the pale lavender blooms of soap-wort, commonly called Pretty Betty, began to peep out. Now soapwort, which the books call Saponaria, a genus of hardy annual and perennial Old-World herbs of the Pink Family, is regarded as just an old weed and not very special. Believe me, it was special in our great-grandmothers' day, for bar soap and detergents were far in the future, unless she made her own soap with grease and lye.l tried washing with soapwort myself one time, just to see how it worked, and was pleasantly sur prised. But I'm careful to call it Pretty Betty when I have it in a table bouquet. My friends seem to react to that name better than they do to soapwort. In some sections of the country, the name seems to be Bouncing Bet, which I mention as an alternate. The books say that soapwort (alias Pretty Betty or Bouncing Bet) comes in clusters of pink, white or red flowers. The only ones I ever have seen are pale lavender-blues, white, or pinkish. By themselves they don't make an especially stunning bouquet, so it is fortunate that ironweed blooms at the same time of year. Ironweed blossoms are purple, and I know Garden Club ladies who would swoon at the sight of the bouquet right now gracing my eating table, for it has purple ironweed, Pretty Betty of a questionable shade, maybe blue, maybe lavender, along with some bright yellow Rudbeckia blossoms and a spray or two of Eupatorim per-foliatum, which is acceptable by that name, but not as plain old good-for-nothing boneset. As a matter of fact, boneset used to ease aches and pains fully as well as some of the costly arthritis and rheumatism pills of the present. All the "old wife" of bygone days had to do was gather the herb when the bloom was brightest, tie it into a bunch and hang it from the ceiling beams. The late Euell Gibbons in his books claimed that he simply laid boneset for drying on newspapers placed on his attic floor. When the boneset is thoroughly dry. stalks and stems are discarded, and the dried leaves crumbled into airtight jars. If you don't need boneset tea for rheumatic ailments, it is said to be good for fevers, colds, catarrh, dropsy, general debility, dyspepsia, and "trouble arising from intemperance." In other words, hangover. Rudbeckia is that golden September bloom named in honor, of Swedish botanist Olaus Rud-beck (1830-1702).   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: “For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.”

We talk Euell GIbbons, Cats win over Chattanooga, flip phones, MLB blackouts, and much more. A things to do in Fall Castoff.

Herbalist and author Matthew Alfs joins Mary for a discussion of his new book, Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of the Midwest, Third Edition (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2020. We discuss plants Minnesota gardeners may be familiar with as weeds or garden plants and their edible and medicinal properties. Disclaimer: Ingestion of any wild plant requires care in identification, selection and processing. Some plants may be toxic. Please take all reasonable care and consult a physician or other health care provider before using wild plants medicinally. To Learn MoreMatthew's bookMatthew's virtual book talkWho was Euell Gibbons?Stalking the Wild AspargusMary's blogMary's bookFollow Grow it, Minnesota on InstagramFollow Mary on InstagramMore about stinging nettlesMore about anise hyssop

Benefits of Foraging with Dr. Mark "Merriwether" Vorderbruggen What would a caveman do?" is still a valuable question to ask in modern times, especially with health concerns. Let me tell you more. :)” Bringing you over a decade of public speaking at museums, garden clubs, prepper groups, historical societies, nature parks, botanical gardens, MENSA clubs, distilleries, Toastmasters, and multiple podcasts. Author of Idiot's Guide Foraging Nationally recognized foraging and herbalist instructor, creator of Foraging Texas Ph.D. Chemist with 14 patents Chemist/herbal formulator for Medicine Man Plant Co. Experienced YouTube Personality: DrMerriwether Over 26,000 followers on the Facebook/ForagingTexas Winner of the 2019 Native Plant Society of Texas Digital Media Award Author of a monthly magazine article on foraging Full Transcript Below Roy - Feeding Fatty (00:03): Hello, and welcome to another episode of feeding fatty. This is Roy and we are the show. You know, we try to bring a lot of different views to the table. Uh, you know, we all struggle in some ways with our getting our fitness plan going, uh, eating right, vegetables, meat, you know, how much, what do you do? What's recommended. What's good for you, you know, what do you like? So we try to bring, you know, this is not only about our journey, mine and Terry's journey, but together, but we also like to, uh, bring guests who are more, um, uh, experts in their field in different areas that have to do with diet and nutrition. And, uh, today, uh, we have an awesome guest that, um, you know, we were kind of joking a little bit in the, uh, in the pre-show that, um, you know, more we have read about him the less that we truly understand what is going on. Roy - Feeding Fatty (00:57): So it's going to be a, an interesting show for all of us to learn. Uh, but we are, uh, grateful that Mark Merriwether [inaudible] hope I got that, right. Uh, he is a PhD, uh, not, uh, and we're going to Merrywhether it's what he goes by in kind of the plant world. So that's where we're going to go with that. And so Merriwether grew up in the wilds of Minnesota, where parents and grandparents utilize the amazing wild foods and medicinal plants found in local woods fields and lakes. The oneness with nature that Dr. [inaudible] has known since childhood is a foundation of who he is today. So Merriwether, thank you so much for taking time out of your day to be with us. Merriwether (01:44): Thank you. Thank you for having me. Roy - Feeding Fatty (01:46): So let's, uh, let's just talk a little bit about, uh, tell us a little bit about, you know, growing up kind of what led you, cause I know that you are, uh, very outdoorsy and, uh, I've seen you reference yourself as a forger. And so, um, those would be some good jumping off points to kind of talk about those. Merriwether (02:08): Sure. Uh, so when they mentioned growing up in Minnesota and both my parents were big into outdoors and every day we were out in the woods behind our house, the fields of rivers, the lakes, things like that, it was part of their upbringing of us is giving us a deep connection to nature. And one of the things that played a role in that was eating the different wild foods that we're finding. Yeah, so that, that played a big role. Both my parents were high school education, uh, but children are the great depression. So one of the things that was very important was the idea of food security, because they grew up in the time, their childhood, where that was an issue, right? So that was always important to us concurrent with that, I knew I was going to be a scientist. Uh, I used to drive my, my elementary school teacher nuts with different questions that they couldn't answer about science. Merriwether (03:02): I was starting to read science textbooks at a very young age. Um, and by the time I got to college, it became obvious that what I want to do is study plant chemistry because when it gets down to it, the chemicals in the plants are fascinating. They've evolved. I tell people, if you can't run, you have to fight and plants can't run. So they have to fight. They have to develop all sorts of really interesting compounds that turnout have benefit for humans too. And so that led into kind of a long and twisted path down herbal medicine. Uh, but at the same time, my, my original plan was to go into pharmaceuticals and become, uh, you know, my, my master's degree was in medicinal chemistry. My PhD was in physical, organic chemistry. So not making molecules, but figuring out which molecule you need to accomplish a certain task. Merriwether (03:56): Uh, I got sidetracked with 18 years in the oil industry, but during that time I was using my knowledge of natural products to come up with new environmentally friendly, safer ways of accomplishing oil field tasks. I got 14 patents. The first one was using cinnamon as a corrosion inhibitor and it just went from there. Um, yeah, but, uh, finally after many, many years, uh, I was able to take that chemistry back into the medicinal side, uh, working for a company as their chemist, herbal formulator for dietary supplements, using ancient plants for modern issues, but there's a whole nother side of the world too. Roy - Feeding Fatty (04:37): Okay. Wow. Yeah. That is a, uh, that is a long and interesting road through the, through the oil patch back to plants. Merriwether (04:46): Well, always with plants, but yeah. Roy - Feeding Fatty (04:51): So, um, you know, we talked a little bit about the forging aspect and you were saying that, uh, because you know, growing up in more of a, an urban environment, even though we lived, you know, kind of in the country, what we called it, we had gardens, but we would never go out and pick anything. Well, you know, we were always scolded against never pick anything up off the ground and put it in your mouth. You know, we, weren't not that they're all bad, but we weren't smart enough to determine the good from the bad. So, uh, you know, that's kind of an interesting concept of being able to go out into the, to the fields. And, uh, no, I guess the first step is being able to identify what is edible and what is something you need to stay away from. Merriwether (05:36): Definitely. Um, there's a basic rule of thumb. I teach foraging classes all around Texas and actually around the nation now. And I tell people when you are, you know, there's lots of good books and websites and so forth to help people identify plants, even apps though. I don't trust the apps, but I say you got to match at least five structural features of the plant. You know, the, the edge of the leaf, the vein pattern of the leaf, the arrangement of the leaves, the flower, the number of pedals, that color there's lots and lots of structural features, but you need to match at least five of them to whatever resource you're using to identify the plant next to you. Really, the secret is start on your doorstep, look at your trees, identify your trees, and then Google, you know, Elm tree edible and figure out, you know, what you can do with that. Then look at the bushes, then look at the flowers and go down into the weeds and identify the weeds. And then just expand from there. A lot of people make the mistake of taking a foraging book out in the woods, thinking I'm going to learn edible plants. And they look at the sea of green and they looked at this thick book and they go back home. So, you know, start, it's easier if you identify the plant and then look up it's edible and medicinal. Terry - Feeding Fatty (06:49): Yeah. That's what I was going to say is where do you start or ask, where do you start? It's like, it's just so overwhelming because there's so much. Roy - Feeding Fatty (06:59): Yeah. And the, um, I guess, like you said, the overwhelmingness of, when you walk out that even though they are differences to the trained, I'm sure that, you know, to the untrained eyes, like a lot of stuff, they all look the same. So that is a, Terry - Feeding Fatty (07:15): Yeah. So I just block it out. It's my fault. Merriwether (07:18): I get so many pictures of a vine wrapped around a tree that people think is one plant, you know? And it's like, no, they're two distinct plants here. Roy - Feeding Fatty (07:29): So what are the benefits are there? Um, I know that in the, I guess the Western world, we have lost a lot of that medicinal use of plants. That there's a lot that's good out there, but for a minute, talk about the nutritional. Uh, are there a lot of nutritional values that are good for us in plants that we may find growing out in the wild? Merriwether (07:52): Oh, definitely. That's a, that's another thing that makes me laugh at gardeners. Uh, nothing personal gardeners, but you guys work way too hard. It's funny to see a lot of the weeds they're pulling up and throwing out are often more nutritious than the plants that they're growing. One of the aspects of the domestication of plants was to alter it in a way that makes it more convenient for the humans to harvest, you know, or store to a point. Um, but in a lot of those changes, uh, you know, basically the plant said, okay, if you take care of me, I will make it easier for you to eat me. But in that process, they did lose some of the nutritional value. Whereas the wild plants, they are constantly fighting, you know, they can't run. So they still have a lot of their initial vitamins minerals. Merriwether (08:39): Uh, dandelions are always a great example. You know, the, the most hated weed and it should be the most loved weed on the planet because the, the leaves are loaded with the vitamins and minerals, even a little protein, the flowers have medicinal properties, the roots can go 12 feet and they have amazing medicinal uses. Yeah. And when the dandelion dies, you have now worked, you know, organic matter 12 feet down into the soil. So one of the things that makes them so nutritious is they have this deep, long reservoir of minerals that they can bring up back into their leaves. That's why they show up in damaged areas because when it rains, a lot of water soluble minerals get percolated down deep into the soil. So the top layer of the soil becomes dead. Nothing can grow in there. The Daniel lions can, they send the roots down deep and remineralize and then other plants go, Oh, this soil is good. And they come in and they crowd out the dining lines have been negative. It's just go away. Interesting. Roy - Feeding Fatty (09:38): So that is one thing that, um, you have seen, I mean, you're currently in the Houston area, you grew up in Minnesota. I mean, that's about as far, uh, you grew up about as far North, as you can go. And now you're living about as far South, as you can go in the U S and then, you know, it's, the, the train is different. The climate certainly different, but what is the diversity of plants that we may find from one area to the other? I mean, is it like a whole new, is it like a whole new, I mean, I'm sure there's some that translate from both areas, but in Houston, are you finding a lot more different stuff than what you found in Minnesota? Merriwether (10:15): It's funny. The, uh, the main difference is the time when the plants show up. Okay. So a lot of the summertime, well, a lot of the winter time weeds in Houston, things like, uh, wild violets and cleavers and girl dock, those are summertime plants up North. Um, and then the summertime plants are the down here in Texas are the deep summary, like the July, August weeds there. Um, I I've been down here since 97 and I still get confused as to what time of year it is. Cause I kind of rely on the plants to be my calendar. And like now I know when I see the Blackberry, uh, flowers, I know it's time to do my taxes. They, they, they start showing up in the beginning of April, I was like, the Blackberry tasty. And then when the curl doc starts showing up, I know it's time to buy my Halloween candy. But up in Minnesota, it was time to buy the Easter candy. You know? So it's different things like that. Plants don't really follow, you know, political boundaries, they follow, you know, ecosystem boundaries. And so the ecosystems, you can find the similar ecosystems all over. Now there, yes, there are certain plants that are hot weather plants or, uh, coastal saltwater, coastal plants that we don't have in Minnesota. But for the most part, a lot of the plants, if you look for the ecosystem, you'll find the plants. Yeah. Roy - Feeding Fatty (11:45): Okay. The other thing you kind of mentioned too, when we were talking a pre-show is that there are a lot more benefits to forging than just the nutrition or the medicinal purposes that we can pull out of the plants. Could you elaborate on that just a little bit? Yeah. Merriwether (12:03): Oh boy. Uh, yes. I'll try to keep it down to a little bit. This is one of my most passionate things here, but yeah, so yeah, the, the, the, the vitamins and minerals and medicinal properties and all that are great from the wild plants, but there's a whole nother level of health that people don't understand or don't realize. So I like to tell the, the problem with the world is it's flat now. We're not talking flat earth sort of thing. We're talking paved sidewalks, you know, tiles, all that. We did not evolve on a flat earth. We evolved on a slippery, slippery, you know, unbalanced, Rocky, tripping hazard sort of thing with things hunting us. So our brains, our bodies are designed to be out walking around on uneven ground and in doing so that requires a lot more mental action, which helps stimulate the brain and the brain needs stimulation. Merriwether (13:04): So by, you know, trying to keep our balance on uneven surfaces and so forth, our brain is much more engaged in what we're doing. One of the things they've found besides helping stave off dementia later in life, it also helps with, uh, things like, uh, attention deficit disorder and so forth because you, you are giving the brain, the input it evolved to get, if it's not getting that sort of input, it's like a cage beast and starting pacing. It starts finding ways to amuse itself. So when you're out walking on uneven ground, your brain is doing exactly what it was designed to do at the same time. You're looking, you're smelling all your senses are coming into play, right at the same time, your core muscles, you know, the people, you know, for exercise, they run on the treadmill. If you really want to exercise, go running across a Rocky field, you, uh, it takes a while, you know, or uneven. Merriwether (14:00): So pre-think, um, because again, as you are trying to maintain your balance in a really topsy turvy, slippery thing, your core muscles are getting a much stronger workout. You're getting a more full body workout. That's like right now, they have all these platforms where you stand on and they vibrate and so forth. They'd say it's, you know, to, to activate all the muscles. Well, you know, go for a walk in the Y you're going to get this. If you are crossing a, you know, a fallen tree over a stream, you are using a lot of muscles. You aren't losing and pushing a shopping cart down the HEB corridor. And especially if you're carrying stuff and you know, in Texas, obviously you're going to have a lot of water that you're carrying with you cause it's hot. So it's like a much more full body workout, bending. You're stretching, you're digging, you're climbing occasionally you're running like hell or Janie. It's a full body workout. It's not just picking things off a shelf in a grocery store. So that physical action and that mental action have amazingly good benefits for the body. Roy - Feeding Fatty (15:07): Yeah. And those are good points. The, um, actually I just posted an article on, uh, on another, um, a website that we've run that was talking about the, if you walk for certain periods of, I mean like a longer period of time, if you walk over consistently over about six years, I think they said it dramatically reduces their chances of Alzheimer's. So, you know, that's good to know. Uh, the other thing that I was thinking, as you were talking about that is, you know, I, I go exercise for the extra size benefit that I get my muscles and all of that. But the other thing that's interesting is when you're out either exercising or forging, uh, you're not eating. So for, you know, people that are trying to, trying to help their way, there's kind of like, it's a double benefit. You're getting the exercise, but you're not sitting in front of a TV, you know, eating as well. So, Merriwether (15:59): Well, I will say if you're forging, you're probably munching as you go, but it's going to be very low calorie stuff. It's easy to get vitamins and minerals and all that stuff. Calories is the hard part. Okay. Roy - Feeding Fatty (16:12): Me and Terry were talking yesterday, uh, you know, we talked briefly about this, about, you know, can you, uh, you know, would it be hard for working people, you know, with a decent sized piece of land ordered, you know, to grow enough food or to forge enough to actually survive. And that was one thing, the point that you did bring up was that, yeah, we could get all the nutrients and everything we need, but the actual caloric intake would be very, very difficult to achieve. Merriwether (16:44): Yeah, you would probably the best clerk intake from an evolutionary point of view is animal fat and which doesn't store well. So you'd have to have some sort of batty animals growing there, you know, corn and so forth has some benefit, but really, yeah, you can do it if you are willing to do no 100% buy-in on the other hand, if I may, uh, giving 10% of your diet from the wild, pretty reasonable, even in city folk, there's, if I can go sideways for a second, a number of people say, Hey, I live in the city, everything has got to be contaminated. I can't eat any of the weeds. Well, actually they've done some really interesting studies looking at the potential contamination in urban plants, mainly up in Minneapolis, St. Paul and in Boston and a few other cities. And they found them to be clean. Merriwether (17:40): They don't have any of the pesticides, heavy metals, anything like that. There there'd be absolutely no reason a person couldn't eat them. Usually the main reasons are against it, like here in the state of Texas, uh, it's actually illegal to take a piece of plant material from a property. What not the property owner has permission. He needs to go back to the sheep and cattle Wars of the 18 hundreds, but, uh, city parks and things like that. Yeah. It's verboten to take plants from there. And part of that is if everyone starts doing that in States where they don't have laws against it, uh, they're finding, especially in the last five years, uh, the parks in places are getting stripped of plants because people are, you know, harvesting over. There's a thing called the tragedy of the commons. It's an economic theory that if there is an open space, that's open to everyone with the resource on it, whoever grabs that resource first is the one that benefits economically. And so there's always someone who is going to try and do that to better themselves rather than leave it forever. Roy - Feeding Fatty (18:44): Right. Right. So we've talked a lot about the nutritional, uh, side of this, but what about the medicinal side? I know, you know, back in the more ancient days, uh, we, they used a lot of plants, you know, for our medicine instead of, I guess, again, this is out of my league, but chemical compounds that, you know, that people figured that go together to solve this. So have we lost a lot of the, I guess the goodness of the medicinal? Merriwether (19:16): Yeah. Um, and there's a couple of different reasons that, so let's first talk. I mean, plants, they are loaded up with all sorts of compounds, all sorts of molecules that have proven biological effects in the human body, uh, up until about 1864, the, you know, it was plants were our medicine now, along with plants, hygiene plays a huge role in things. So one of the things to keep in mind, uh, you know, the, the increase in the ability to keep things clean and to sterilize wounds and the understanding that you have to keep things clean, played a big role in human health, but plants were a big deal. Uh, and you know, going back tens of thousands of years, uh, really they, they say the first scientists were probably the herbalists of the tribe, where they were, you know, you know, someone was sick, they'd throw something, you know, some plant at it and Hey, the person got better. Merriwether (20:15): Uh, you might be familiar with Euell Gibbons. He was wild food, you know, from the sixties and seventies, but anyways, eat a pine tree. He wrote a, he wrote a book called, uh, stocking the, the healthful herb. And his theory was that a large part of the medicinal benefit of wild plants was actually due to their increased nutritional value, getting more vitamins, you're getting more vitamin a, you know, that sort of thing. And so he did a lot of studies looking at nutritional value of wild edible plants. Well, that ended up coloring the, the scientists approach to the disenroll plants. They thought, yeah, it's just, it's just vitamins minerals. There's no real true medicinal value to it. But in the eighties they started going, well, let's just take a look at it. It's because there's a lot of traditional use and there seems to be something going on. Merriwether (21:12): And since then it, they really did find, yeah, there are molecules that do this and that increase in nitric oxide, which lowers blood pressure, you know, increases neural growth, the neural connections in the brain, all sorts of things that speeds up the processing of the liver stimulates the immune system. There are compounds that do that in the plants. And so that's kind of re awoken the whole looking at traditional medicine saying, yeah, there's something there. Yeah. I mentioned the date 1864. That was when the first chemist came up with a synthetic medicine chloral hydrate, which was used as a sedative as a, you know, kind of like an ether sort of thing for people undergoing, uh, operations or surgeries, that sort of thing that was kind of at the time of enlightenment when scientists said, Hey, you know what, we have this power now. And as a chemist, uh, I'm speaking for my tribe here. Merriwether (22:07): We have this pot. We can make that. One of the issues with nature is with the wild plants, the amount of the compound varies some from plant to plant and ecosystem and all that. So there was, there was some hit or miss the plants had power, but it was hard to get an absolute reproducible thing. So scientists said, Hey, if we make the molecule, then we know exactly how much is in there and we can fine tune it and all that sort of thing. And so that whole let's search for, for synthetic forms occurred. So that was a big push. Another thing, if you think about it, the collecting the plants, storing the plants, turning them into medicine, that's very labor intensive. It requires a lot of time on regards, a lot of effort to do it on a mass scale. And so as the population grew, it became impossible. If you think, uh, you know, monoculture, a lot of the, the farming right now is designed so that it can be harvested by machine, right? And so that's, that's not always possible with a lot of the medicinal plants, especially once, you know, that are wild. And so it just became easier and more cost efficient to find a molecule synthesize that molecule and say, here you go, here's the molecule rather than the whole plant. So, Roy - Feeding Fatty (23:32): So they're kind of brought up a good, um, a distinction in the medicinal side about, um, I guess being a preemptive versus, you know, after something happens. And a lot of times we think, well, I'll say, I think of, you know, medicinal purposes as something happens, you're sick. You take something to treat it, to make you feel better, but I guess we could kind of look at that from some things you said as more preempting, if we eat these things that may prevent us from getting, getting sick, Merriwether (24:10): I have to be careful because the FDA has certain rules about what you can and can't say, uh, yeah. Um, yeah, not allowed to say like plants will prevent diseases, but they can stimulate the immune system. They could, you know, people seem to have forgotten lately that they have an immune system. In fact, they have two immune systems. They have the innate and the active, the innate is the ones that are constantly patrolling the body, looking for invaders to try and get rid of it. And then the active is if the innate feels it's getting overwhelmed, they can't handle it. It releases the dogs of war, the killer white blood cells to attack the things that have tags. And there are plants that will both support the innate and the active, uh, speed up, especially in the case of the white blood cells, speed up the response time and the number of white blood cells that the body produces to attack invaders. Merriwether (24:59): So going back to the caveman lifestyle, um, looking at the bone said, yeah, the average life span was 40 years, right? Because by then you've suffered probably some sort of injury. You fell off a mountain near, you know, something like that. Uh, so, you know, but a lot of the plants help with what, uh, are generally considered lifestyle diseases. Um, we spent a lot more time as cavemen than we did in the modern world. And our body is still designed to deal with the caveman threats in the caveman issues. You know, is there something that they're going to eat me? Oh, have calories. Let's take all the calories we can because we may not find them tomorrow. Right. And so that's how we're programmed to respond to threats and also foods. I mean, they've shown that there are sensors in our stomach when you get sugar, it sends a signal to the brain that says, Hey, this stuff, eat more of it because you don't know when you're going to get it again. Well, yeah, we're going to get again in an hour, but the caveman it's, it's like, this is a miracle. Um, so by incorporating the, the plants of our ancestors that does help, you know, give the body what it thinks it needs, what it evolved, needing, what it evolved to using, to maintain its health and, you know, corn products, not so much corn. It was a pretty recent invention as far as the human racism involved, but we get a lot of corn in her diet, not as a lot of wild, not so, and Roy - Feeding Fatty (26:44): Not that, not that there wasn't fish and beef and the animals back in that day, but I just assume, you know, they were harder to catch, like you said, they could run plants couldn't. And so, um, I just figured that's why a lot of the diet, uh, ancient diets were built around plants. They were just easier to, easier to go out and capture them than an animal that was moving. Merriwether (27:10): Yeah. You know, I talked about, uh, calories. I make a big deal though. If you've ever watched the history channel alone, you know, it's basically the hunger games who can manage their calories the most here in Texas, West Texas, the native Americans had what they called second harvest. So they would eat a prickly pear, cactus, fruit loaded with seeds. The next day they would go through their feces, find the digested seeds and consumed them again because they, they were trying to squeeze every calorie they could out of the environment. Delicious. We got water burgers so much better, much better. Roy - Feeding Fatty (27:51): Well, the other thing, uh, a little bit may be off topic, but the, you know, I think our bodies are still on that. Not maybe not as much caveman as just the agrarian society, you know, that we were for so long, we wake up at, you know, when the sun comes up, we're out working, moving all day and then, you know, we go to bed, whereas now, you know, I get up and walk 10 feet to my desk and I'm like, I have to take a, I have to take a break. Cause I'm winded. You know, it was like, uh, you know, we just don't have the, um, the activity, we've got a lot more, you know, we just have access to these high caloric foods. And then of course the awesome shifts that we have today, you know, they jazz those up even more. But I think that's, uh, am I wrong in thinking that, you know, it's probably a good thing that, you know, plants can make a comeback because you know, we're not in as much need for the calories as we were, you know, at one time when we were out plowing the fields behind a horse. Merriwether (28:58): Yeah. And you're right. They did a study that 150 years ago, people were eating about the same number of calories as they are now, but they were rail thin because they were burning them up. Right. 80% of the population in the United States was agricultural based, you know, farming, growing, plowing, all that sort of thing. Right. And so there was a lot just more movement and activity and thought. Yeah. So sitting behind a desk is bad for us. So, um, yeah, my belief, the closer your foods are to what you evolved, eating the better your body is gonna respond to it, as opposed to some, you know, frozen TV or frozen burrito or something like that. A lot of process things, you know, there's, there's some real food there, but at least having part of your diet, it's still back to what we evolved with. Yeah. It has benefits. Roy - Feeding Fatty (29:50): Yeah. And what we have found I think is, uh, as we have become more aware of everything, it's just the, some of it is the basic control over what we put in our bodies is when you buy, the more pack is in preprocess. I mean, you can look at the label, but there's, who knows what some of that stuff is. And then, uh, you know, now we can control, you know, better salt, salt, I guess we'll look take that, you know, kind of the big one, a lot of processed food has tons and tons of salt. And so we are able to control that much better when we're cooking and doing things ourself. Merriwether (30:27): Right. Yeah. And it's easy to use a lot of wild foods. I, maybe I mentioned it, but the average person can probably get 10% of their food from the wild, you know, between their house, their neighbors down the street, things like that, you know, add to your salads, you know, you're out, uh, it's funny in my, my, my neighborhood there's 800 houses. And when someone new moves in, they're told about me and said, okay, there's this guy, he may knock on your door and asked to eat something from your yard. He's harmless. Yeah. But on the other hand, now, if someone needs something, I'm the guy that they, Hey, does anyone have, you know, the, the, the branch for installing a faucet? Oh yeah. They have it. You know? And so it's, it's like the neighborhood color, I dunno. Centered database. Roy - Feeding Fatty (31:21): Well, Mary, whether that, uh, Merriwether (31:24): I'm sorry. Can I interject something? Okay. Can, can you talk a little bit about medicine man plant company? Oh yeah. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. So, like I said, after years of just treating myself and through the classes and so forth, I finally, uh, was able to expand out into commercial products. Uh, so January of 2020, we started medicine man, plant co, uh, and then the apocalypse hit, but what these are are. So we have like the liver pill, which is burdock root and milk thistle and flax seed. Uh, there's a lot of scientific support for burdock root speeding up the, uh, action of the liver. The milk the soul has, uh, found to maintain the integrity of liver cells under attack. If you eat a poisonous mushroom, the, uh, the only thing they have right now to treat that, uh, the liver damage caused by that. Merriwether (32:21): Cause it's usually what mushrooms do is they talk to the liver, uh, is a milk thistle extract. So we got that in here. Then the flax seed is in there to increase the bio availability. Um, I'll tell you right now, and I may get in trouble. A lot of herbal supplements. Their main product is really urine. So you want to make sure the plants are set up to maximize the bioavailability, the bio absorption, and we have the immune pill and it's hard to focus there. So this has the elderberry of the [inaudible]. Both of them shown to support the innate and active immune system, the cell field, which helps block the viruses from getting into cells. And then also cordyceps mushroom, which is a immune modulator. So if the immune system does start getting out of control, you might've heard of thing called a cytokine storm. Merriwether (33:18): Uh, there can be a help tamp it down some to keep it, you know, at the appropriate response, not too much, but also not too little. And then vitamin C and most people think vitamin C, but we threw it in here because vitamin C is actually the messenger molecule between the innate and the active immune system. And so if you're lacking in vitamin C, because it's used in so many different other processes in the body, uh, your innate it's kind of actually down low on the list of who gets to use it. And so if you don't have enough, it can't send the signal. It needs to the, uh, active form brain pill, lion's mane mushrooms, Sage Gingko, leaf increases, blood flow increases, neural connection, uh, and increases, focus, and attention. Of course, the moneymaker, the libido pill, we can probably have to go to detail. Merriwether (34:09): Um, and of course, like I said, they, the FDA says, you know, uh, um, it's the morning needed to do, to do, um, we can edit, okay. These statements have not been evaluated by the food and drug administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. So, whereas the individual plants have been tested because the actual product has not, we can't make specific medical claims, but we can save the plants. And if you go to the website, I have all the scientific documentation as a scientist. I need the proof. So hopefully I didn't go too long on that. Roy - Feeding Fatty (34:49): I think it's a, it's an important distinction to make that, uh, you know, you're not a guy that woke up yesterday and said, Hey, I think I'm going to crush some plants and package them up. And so, I mean, the, you know, the PhD and, and tell us what that is, what yours is in again, I think it's in the, okay. Merriwether (35:05): Yeah. Physical, organic chemistry. So, you know, like not making molecules, figuring out which molecule you need to accomplish a task. Terry - Feeding Fatty (35:13): Right. Right. And, and on that note, Roy was saying that he needed to find energy. What do you suggest for energy? What helps with energy? Merriwether (35:24): Yeah. So, okay. There's two ways of approach it. Uh, so going back to the Burdoch word, uh, burdock root has been shown to speed up the process of the liver. When you are active in working you, your muscles are producing lactic acid. It's a waste product of the action. And so the lactic acid is removed from the blood by the liver. There's an equilibrium that sets up though, the, the muscles can only get rid of the lactic acid acid at a certain rate, because at a point the blood kind of becomes saturated with it. So the more quickly you can get rid of it by the liver, the longer your muscles can eject the lactic acid. So there's a lot of, of, uh, data that shows the burdock root helps with overall physical endurance and strength, because it helps, uh, prevent the fatigue that occurs in the muscles as they're working something. I also really like is a mixture of tumeric, cayenne pepper, and black pepper. I put that on my eggs every morning. I have a shaker and I put that on because that has been also shown to kinda increase metabolism, which has send you your SIS and blood flow. So you need the black pepper in there with the tumeric and the cayenne pepper to make those more bio absorbed. Merriwether (36:49): Yeah, Roy - Feeding Fatty (36:50): Because I had been, um, this has been a few years ago, I'd started taking the tumeric, um, supplement. And then, you know, when we kind of started getting back to cooking more and paying more attention, we actually got it in the, uh, the ground form where, like you said, we can add it to the food. And I just felt like I was getting a better quality and more equal distribution, you know, than taking the supplement. So, um, I've been very happy with that, but mixing it with the black pepper and the CA and the cayenne we'll check that out. Merriwether (37:23): Yeah. So you're like 50% tumeric, 50%, uh, cayenne pepper and just about 10%. So I guess you could say 45%, 45% and 5%, 10%, 10% of the black pepper. You only need a little bit of black pepper mixed in with it. So it tastes really good. Perfect. All right. Yeah. I wrote that down. That's cool. Ooh, can I give one other caveman a tip? Okay. So going back to the brain, uh, one of the things that the human race evolved doing was throwing things at stuff, and it's been showing that that helps the brain a lot and still do well. But, uh, juggling learning to juggle is great. Both exercise and for your brain. So interesting something to do. You spend 15 minutes a day juggling, so okay. As exercise for your brain and your body, and then eventually you get on like a, a ball and do it there. Yeah. You get the full body workout. Don't do it in the kitchen though. When you're first learning someplace less breakable Speaker 4 (38:34): There. Huh? Roy - Feeding Fatty (38:38): I can't believe I'm even going to say this, but the other day, the other day at lunch, uh, I turned the TV on, in the Beverly hillbillies was on and they were all excited. They were going to parade where they had a possum juggler. So I guess when you get, when you get, they get really good at it, you can not try juggling possibly, I guess. There we go. All right. Merriwether, uh, any, anything else Terry, before we wrap up? Terry - Feeding Fatty (39:04): Uh, no, I think that's it. I mean, it just, I'm so glad that you shared about the medicine man plant company. Um, well, just all of the information that you gave us, lots of food, food for thought and body and soul Roy - Feeding Fatty (39:22): Tell everybody how they can reach out and get a hold of you and get in touch with the medicine man plant company as well. Merriwether (39:29): Sure. So the website is medicine, man, plant code.com. And then on Facebook, of course, Facebook medicine, man, plant code.com. Uh, I also have the website for gene, Texas. DubDubDub for gene, texas.com. It has over 225 plants, uh, with all sorts of pictures and information and maps, both of Texas and of all of North America, because it's become, you know, nationwide sort of thing. So you can look up on there, I'm in the process of revamping it, cause it was started before smartphones. Um, but my goal for 28, you know, the first quarter of 2021 is to make it a lot more smartphone friendly. Well, yeah, you can find me there. And if you send an email to medicine, man, plant kill, I'm the guy that answers it. Roy - Feeding Fatty (40:16): Yeah. Before we get too far away from that, uh, why don't you tell us, uh, what are the forging classes? You know, how often do you do them work? And I'm sure you can find out more information on the website, but just tell us a little bit more about what's involved in those. Merriwether (40:31): Okay. So the most of them will be a four hour excursion across some piece of property. They're usually hosted by historic sites or state parks or other organizations, museums. The list of upcoming class can be found on the 4g in Texas. It's mainly in Minnesota or sorry, mainly in Texas. Uh, but then I go up to Minnesota at least once a year. And I'm also talking to some people out in Georgia, things like that, Louisiana. So we're expanded. Um, so he actually me Roy - Feeding Fatty (41:03): We'll add it to the field and uh [inaudible] Merriwether (41:08): Yeah. Cause a lot of people, there's, there's a fear factor. They look at a plant and they're like 80%, you know, someone can really looks, but you know, and so, you know, I take that and say, okay, here's, you know, we look at all the structures, look at your reason, this is the plan. Go ahead and need it. And you know, I encourage people, uh, really it's best if you have like two or three people along, so one can taking notes and one can be videoing at all. Cause you want to go back and look at a lot of this stuff, but yeah, it's four hours wandering around talking about the plants, but you can see that you can eat what you shouldn't eat. Right. Roy - Feeding Fatty (41:48): That was awesome. That sounded like a great excursion. So, uh, if y'all would just take some time to go over to the websites and uh, check out Merriwether and all the great things that he's got going on. And we certainly, again appreciate you taking time out of your day to be with us. It's been a very interesting and in a, in lightening talk for sure. Mark. Thank you. So I like to talk about, Terry - Feeding Fatty (42:10): Can't tell, hide that. Well, Roy - Feeding Fatty (42:15): All right guys, well, that's going to be it for us today. Uh, you can find us of course, at www dot feeding, fatty.com. Of course we are on, uh, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and this will, uh, when this episode goes live, of course we will have the video up on YouTube. So check us out. And uh, we're always open to suggestions for a new and different topics. If you're a professional that deals in the fitness, nutrition, uh, arena, you know, can help people out with their journeys on becoming healthier. We'd love to hear from you. So until next time, take care of each other and take care of yourself. Okay. Terry - Feeding Fatty (42:54): I'm Terry. Bye. Thank you. www.feedingfatty.com          

At the top of the show, Adam recalls the time his grandma cooked weeds for dinner, thanks to a health-nut named Euell Gibbons. The guys also comment on the one-year anniversary of Kobe Bryant’s death, and Adam talks about a crazy drive with Mike August on the way to a dinner party. Dawson then plays a new mashup he made, and Adam rants about mixed messages from the government. Before the break, the guys attempt to cheer fans up during a round of Mr. Brightside, and they listen to an Unprepared clip from Adam’s recent trip to Naples, FL. Please support today’s sponsors: KFC.com SimpliSafe.com/ADAM Stamps.com enter ADAM Download the Mercari App Geico.com

Part 2 of today’s podcast opens with a conversation about tipping. Maz Jobrani then joins the show, and Adam talks with him about his experience visiting the Middle East and taping a standup special there. The guys also talk about the new world of doing comedy over Zoom instead of the hassles of travel. Later, Gina reads news stories about people needing to wear two masks, how Chick-Fil-A helped change vaccine distribution wait times, Disney+ blocking certain movies from kids, the Jungle Cruise ride getting a makeover, and a young woman from Israel who was just crowned the most beautiful woman in the world. Please support today’s sponsors: KFC.com SimpliSafe.com/ADAM Stamps.com enter ADAM Download the Mercari App Geico.com

Find out more information at: Martin Straw Coaching, LLC. https://youtube.martinstraw.com https://www.instagram.com/martinstraw/ https://www.facebook.com/martinstrawcoaching Here's a link to a Euell Gibbons commercial from the 1970's that they guys refer to (though not the "Ever eat a pinetree" one). https://youtu.be/QffEYYotXIk

Please donate to The National Bail Fund Network! On this Horticulturati, Colleen teaches us the best way to build a compost pile. Leah forages far and wide and lives to tell the tale.  Visit our website for images from this episode.   Mentioned:  The City of Austin’s Home Composting Rebate Program; Mantis Compostumbler; Soil, a novel by Jamie Kornegay; The Telluride Mushroom Festival; The WIld Wisdom of Weeds by Katrina Blair; Turtle Lake Refuge in Durango CO; Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons

Please donate to The National Bail Fund Network! On this Horticulturati, Colleen teaches us the best way to build a compost pile; Leah forages far and wide and lives to tell the tale.  Visit our website for images from this ep.   Mentioned:  The City of Austin’s Home Composting Rebate Program; Mantis Compostumbler; Soil, a novel by Jamie Kornegay; The Telluride Mushroom Festival; The WIld Wisdom of Weeds by Katrina Blair; Turtle Lake Refuge in Durango CO; Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+3%3A1-12&version=ESV (Matthew 3:1-12) I was speaking with a friend a while back about someone who was making a mess of things. My friend said That guy will never change. He is a hopeless case! This is a day of little faith and few convictions. Out of frustration and disappointment, people are inclined to say, You just can't change human nature. Perhaps you've found yourself saying or thinking the same thing about certain people. You know the line: A leopard can't change its spots. A person will always be that way, no matter what! We might even think it about ourselves. I can never change. That's the way I am; It‘s the way I will always be. Then we sigh, shrug our shoulders, and say, I guess you just can't teach an old dog new tricks. I have found this kind of thinking can cause discouragement and even despair in us. I'm a drunk; I'll always be a drunk. Or, I'm a terrible spouse. I'll always be a terrible spouse; there's no hope for this marriage. Or, I'm a bad, self-centered person. I just give up. You can't change human nature. If you believe this, a popular preacher from a long time ago by the name of John would beg to differ with you. In our story from Matthew's Gospel, John the Baptist came on the scene in the wilderness of Judea out by the Jordan River. Crowds of people from Jerusalem, Judea, and the region about the Jordan River flocked out into the wilderness to hear this guy – even be baptized by him in the Jordan River confessing their sins. Why was John so popular? What was the attraction? Was it his looks? He was a rather strange looking person, we're told. He wore camel hair and a leather belt and reminded people of the Old Testament prophet Elijah. Perhaps his interesting diet struck people as odd. He only ate locusts and wild honey – kind of a Euell Gibbons of his day. It could be his style, his tone, his plain talk, his urgency. He was very direct and challenging to people. He didn't mince words. While some of those attributes played into the picture for the people, it seemed there was more. It was his message. He sounded like a prophet speaking for God. “Repent,” he said, “for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” This meant the same as the kingdom of God, but Matthew was writing for a Jewish audience who revered the name of God, and he didn't want to offend them. “The kingdom of heaven is at hand!” God is up to something big. Get ready! Repent now! Now is the time to change your direction, and turn to God. Surrender yourself to His leadership. John's talk was a bit sobering. He spoke of the wrath to come and an ax being laid to the tree. His words seemed to ally shake people up. John's message sounded fresh and is different from what people had heard for a long time. His words rang with the authority of God. He reminded them of an Old Testament prophetic voice of God, which had been silenced for years – and the people were ready for it. It was like an alarm going off, and people were awakened by his message. What was particularly thrilling about John's message was the description of the person who was coming. The center of John's message is this: “He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. I baptize you with water. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”Someone is coming who is mightier and greater than I, John says. It sounds like the Messiah from God whom the people of God had been hoping for. He will change your life, John says. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. John is describing the work of the Holy Spirit in one's life when they received Christ. You see, you can't change human nature. You can't change yourself. But God can and will through His Son, Jesus Christ. When you trust in Him, He breathes His Spirit in you, and you become a new creation with new power, a new identity, a new...

We've been galavanting for the past month and this week we talk our way around the world: Iceland, Paris, Taipei, Italy, Los Angeles and more! Plus, Dave shares his recipe for a shrunken head and answers listener questions on stabilizing Nut Butters, alternate uses for Acid-adjusted Orange Juice, choosing skewers for Tandoor cooking, and more. Plus, today's classic in the field: Stalking The Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons. Interested in the events we discuss at the top of the show? Check 'em out here: https://32auctions.com/houdini https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking Have a question for Cooking Issues? Call it in to 718.497.2128 or ask in the chatroom. Cooking Issues is powered by Simplecast.

Adam and Dr. Drew open the show continuing their conversation about the passing of Howard Lapides with Drew discussing how integral Howard was in his day to day life and Adam recounting some stories of his interactions with Howard over the years. Adam also talks to Drew about the virtues of lying and the difference between lies that are malicious as opposed to ones that are designed for the people being lied to. As the show wraps up Adam turns his ire to the late Euell Gibbons and his series of Grape Nuts commercials in the 1970s. Please Support Our Sponsors: ButcherBox.com/ADS LifeLock.com, promo code ADAM Pluto.tv TrueCar.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode Ellen and C.L. talk about eating the tips off of spruce trees, what people mean when they say they are “forcing plants,” and which houseplants can bring fragrance into your home this winter.   :32 What’s for dinner: Spruce tips! Euell Gibbons was right… 5:35 Plant Noob: What does “forcing plants” mean? 9:13 Eat/Drink/Grow: Growing fragrant houseplants 16:00 Love Letters and Questions:   Randall asks if the Plantrama team will be back in Seattle this winter for the Northwest Flower and Garden Show.

Day 5 ~ TASTE & SEE! “One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hey there {{ subscriber.first_name }} So how are you doing on the 21-Day Nature Challenge?  Are you finding it difficult staying on track and doing this challenge every day?  If so, don’t be discouraged. Life gets in the way, as they say.  It’s a normal thing.  And the whole point of the challenge is to be able to take an ordinary day and make it extraordinary by living in the moment, whatever the moment brings.  Doing it in Nature gives an added benefit of beauty, peace and health & fitness by getting outdoor exercise, sunshine and fresh air - all good for the body, mind and spirit. So if you miss a day or two, or aren’t able to do everything on the checklist, we just want to encourage you, and remind you that whether you’re seeing or noticing any immediate improvements in your mindfulness, weight loss or whatever other reason you’ve chosen to do this, the point is, just by doing a little more than you would normally do - making healthy choices and intentionally being present even for small bits of time – like anything, the more you do it, the better you will get at it.  So just keep on making forward motion everyday.  It will pay off in ways you may not even realize until much later. Today we are focusing on a physical sense that sometimes gets us in trouble, and that we rarely think about in nature - the sense of Taste. The average person has about 10,000 taste buds which are microvilli, or tiny hairs which send messages to the brain about how something tastes.  We mentioned on Day 3 that our sense of smell really affects our sense of taste.  While we can differentiate between thousands of odors, we can only taste salty, sweet, bitter, and sour.  Working in conjunction with the tongue, the nose helps add variety and flavoring to the taste sensation.  Cool! The down side of this is that when we smell something irresistible, it can help outvote our brain in the decision-making process of when, what and how much to eat.  We’re talking bacon, doughnuts, fried chicken, and cinnamon rolls… Ok time to stop drooling! Introducing mindfulness eating.   Perhaps you’ve heard of this concept. Mindfulness eating involves slowing down, primarily choosing nutritionally healthy foods, not overloading your plate, truly enjoying each bite, not multi-tasking, but when eating, just eat, listening to your body and stopping when you are full, and finally considering where your food comes from. We’re not saying you can’t eat a piece of chocolate cake or a bowl of ice-cream.  If you’re choosing to do it mindfully, you are only going to eat probably half the amount, and enjoy it twice as much!  If you’re really listening to your hunger cues and you are truly intentionally enjoying your food, it may only take a few bites to satisfy your hunger.  The point is, you need to be listening to what your body needs and honoring that. And while you’re listening, it really helps to consider where your food comes from in the first place. In the good old days, before McDonald’s and Burger King, our ancestors knew where their food came from, how to hunt or grow it, and the whole process it took to procure and prepare it.  It potentially added another dimension of appreciation and enjoyment to the meal. How often do we stop to think about the whole process of where our food comes from? - From the person who plants it, cultivates it, harvests it, sells it, buys it, stocks it, brings it home, plans the meal, and prepares and puts it on the table. So as you step outside today, we’re not going to make you pull a Euell Gibbons and eat pine nuts and dandelions, (although you can if you want to).  But just open your mouth and imagine what the air and the day tastes like if it had a taste. Do it, enjoying the present moment, whatever it brings, knowing that when you get home, the very next meal or snack you have, you will remember what we just talked about and choose to eat in a mindful way. Oh and while you’re out getting fresh air and exercise, feel to free to put a pine needle, dandelion leaf or piece of clover in your mouth and see what it tastes like.  Be sure you know what you are putting in your mouth though and definitely, no matter what, stay away from yellow snow! That’s it for today’s 21-Day Nature Challenged.  Now go in peace, knowing that you’ve got good taste!

Wild food forager Sam Thayer talks with Katy Bowman about how he began foraging out of necessity, but now his body craves the nutrition—and nutritious movement—he only gets from foraging. Plus, he runs us through the physical work involved in making maple syrup and harvesting wild rice. Mileage for those who want to listen on the go: This podcast clocks in at around 75 minutes… so head out for a six-miler and let Katy and Sam keep you company. Sam Thayer: https://www.foragersharvest.com Billy Joe Tatum’s cookbook: https://www.amazon.com/Billy-Tatums-Foods-Field-Cookbook/dp/0911104771 Euell Gibbons: http://wildfoodadventures.com/about/john-kallas/wild-food-adventurer/wfa-by-volumeyear/euell-gibbons/

This week on Cooking Issues, Paul Adams, the senior editor for Popular Science, joins Dave Arnold in the studio to answer your questions! Not only does he help Dave with the questions, but he came with a gift! Tune in to listen to Dave using the Rollie Egg Cooker that Paul brought him, along with answers on Euell Gibbons and foraging, making a Tom Collins Cocktail without lemon, Lardo, and cooking pork loin. “To me, berries become more delicious in mass quantity. Like, you want a full face of berry.” [5:00] “Don’t blame me if you’re dead, but I think you’re fine eating it.” [35:00] –Dave Arnold on Cooking Issues

Adam and Drew are back together and open the show discussing Adam's father and his lack of enthusiasm for almost everything in life. Adam and Drew also discuss an early Saturday Night Live sketch about 'natural' cereals that leads to a discussion about Euell Gibbons and his promotion of Grape Nuts. As the show wraps up they also take listener phone calls on topics from abusive parents to Asperger syndrome. AdamAndDrDrewShow.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Three Needle Bind Off, Knitter’s Life List Review This show by sponsored by my Longaberger Home Business and Quince & Co. complete show notes and photos at www.knittingpipeline.com The folks at Quince & Co believe that businesses can be good citizens—should be good citizens—without making too much a fuss about it. So, they have created a line of thoughtfully conceived yarns spun from American wool or sourced from earth friendly overseas suppliers. Find them at www.quinceandco.com and while you are there, sign up for their free e-newsletter. I enjoy your feedback, comments on the blog, and questions. Feel free to write to me at Paulaef@aol.com or on Ravelry as PrairiePiper. My business site is longaberger.com/paula Thank you to everyone who left 5 star reviews on iTunes, commented on the show blog, participated in the Knitting Pipeline Group on Ravelry, and send good vibes my way. Ourgroup on Ravelry is very friendly and I invite you to join us. We have over 1586 members! Pipeliner Notes: I read a note from Nancy. Her husband is going to build owl houses. Does anyone have experience with these? Please let me know. Nature Notes:Pileated woodpecker, spring peepers, and a fox runs past as I record the show. Spring Beauty Claytonia virginica Native Americans ate the bulbs of this plant. Euell Gibbons called it Fairy Spuds. The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. ~Henry Van Dyke Needle Notes : Follow up on Purl Tension. Cat Bordhi video. How to tighten your purl stitches. Greta theCaptivating Cat by Rebecca Danger.  3 needle bind off was used to close the top. Getting it turned inside out was painful. Greta the Second I used kitchener stitch at the top of the head. Had added stitches to the opening but still very small. Faces: Use DMC cotton perle 5 You have to get it right.  Stuffing: Always takes more than you think it will. Piper’s Journey KAL: Not much to say about this KAL and I guess that is a good thing. The Blethering Room: I explain where The Blethering Room originated, with a group of friends who met online and met face to face in Virginia in 1999. “Blether” is the Scottish word for blather. Book Notes: The Knitter’s Life List by Gwen W. Steege. Highly recommended. In The Piping Circle: St. Patrick’s Day Recap

Today's show has the F word it. You've been warned.   This is one of the "weird" episodes where I just wonder why things go into my mind at certain times. I happened to notice that Apple Jacks has no mascot while most children's cereals have a mascot (Tony the Tiger, Lucky for Lucky Charms, The rabbit for Trix, Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Boo Berry, The Bee for Cheerios). It turns out there IS a mascot that was launched in 2005, but apparently, it never caught on. Does anyone remember Euell Gibbons and his crazy "Eat a pine cone" commercials for Grape Nuts? What marketing person thought this made me want to eat this cereal. Also, did you know there was a fourth Crispy Brother? Roy. (OK, I stole that from David Letterman). NEVER USE THE WORD CLUSTER when talking about food. Brownies are the bastard son of the cake family. If we didn't have the word "muffin" we would all be eating cupcakes for breakfast. Music today by the band Gecko 3 www.gecko3.comfrom the Podsafe Music Network at www.podsafemusicnetwork.com????????