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May 24, 2020
Blog and Newsletter Writer, Instructor for Nutrition, Gardening, and Wildcrafting
Tell us a little about yourself.
Wild Abundance is more then a website it\'s a school, I live here and the school is here in the Southern Appalachian mountains just outside of Asheville, North Carolina
medicinal and edible mushroom cultivation
medicinal plants
the school that i work for is located just down the road
campus is run by my dear friend, Natalie dog walker
together
this year
we are walking on an online gardening school
teaching people all over the world
pretty much because
we love it an are passionate
afraid of breakdown of supply chains
surge and your listeners have noticed
interested in gardening
when you first start out gardening it can be
steering them in the right direction
folks who have that inspiration can have that success and keep going
I always think it\'s interesting, I always dreamed of going to Montana, I knew a girl who always wanted to go to Maryland. She\'s like doesn\'t that just sound beautiful?
can really
20 acres
we have 23 acres
bigger farms in this state
piedmont
east
up in the mountains
Appalachian mountain chain in the southern part of that mountain chain. It\'s one of the oldest mountain formations in the world
Lots of endemic species that live here
It\'s a beautiful verdant jungle in the spring and summer
A big chunk of that is wooded hillside
farm per se flatland 3-4 acres
where we have the animals
harvest timber obviously for wood heat cooking and mushroom cultivation My partner is just dedicated at working away at developing a silvapasture and nut orchard up on the slope.
so we are somewhere in between
That\'s similar where we are surrounded by doug fir forest and you can see before and after pics on our website. where he has cut the forest to build the minifarm.
well, I didn\\u2019t grow up gardeningI grew up in the suburbs in the bay area in Northern, CA
small rural western part of the county
alternative school that happened to be a public school, was really a blessing for me and my family getting to go to a private school that was public and free
alternative
project based
interdisciplinary
open classroom
in marin
more rural part
My other friends mom
I did have early exposure
we had a garden at my school
early childhood exposure I was drawn to plants and animals
I didn\'t tend my own garden till I was in college
I knew I wanted to study
avid cook
vegetarain
love vegetables and cook lots
Anyone who cooks a lot has a visceral understanding of the difference of quality'