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Before there was Whole Foods, there was wild foods. As a young man, Alonzo Brandon of Port Gibson, hunted in order to help feed his family. In this episode he describes how he would outsmart the squirrels that tried to hide from him.

After working all day, Alonzo Brandon would often go coon hunting. He recalls waiting until dawn some nights for a treed coon to finally come down.\xa0 He also discusses his weapon of choice, the 22 caliber rifle.\xa0

Brandon\u2019s family raised hogs as an additional source of protein.\xa0 In this podcast extra, he remembers how the hogs would also hunt to supplement their diets.

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