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Foraging Wild Parsley - Reflections

Wild Parsley This past week was crazy for my family, with the on grid world coming face to face part of the time with our off grid lifestyle.   Hospital visit for my husband.  Car tire issue when we tried to go into town for monthly supply run.  And other less major issues too.  But the high light was much simpler for me.  A dear friend took me out to teach me to id and gather wild parsley.  It was so much fun.  For once everything in life felt like it belonged and was in place.  It felt as though I was working at work that was meet to be done, and  not some invited system that was fake.  This work would be putting real food on the table.  This work had been done for 100s of years, and was as it was meant to be. Gathered Wild Parsley Foraging for food.  It is such a basic thing.  And yet, so many have forgotten the old skill.  I myself am just beginning to relearn that which was lost.  It is such ...