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I'm not like someone that thinks before
they speak, you know.

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So I don't.

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So that's why it's so.

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Exciting that. We.

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That's really very cool. Perfect.

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Yeah. So, Thank you for coming.

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Yeah. Thank you for having me.

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I remember when 
I first saw the farmer's market.

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I was like, oh, this is pretty cool.

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And then, I kind of read up on you
a little bit about your experience

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and what you've done,
which I have to ask you questions,

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because some of it

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I forget a little bit
about your background,

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but I, I know you've been places
and traveled

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and done things
which I thought was very, very cool.

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So I'll, I'll talk a little bit about that
and Yeah.

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And then you were just really kind
and sweet when we first started talking

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because I had a lot of stuff going on.

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So you were kind of very cool to just
hang out and talk with for a little bit.

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Really gracious. Yeah. Thank you.
So I appreciate that.

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So, yeah, let's the farmers
markets coming up in a month.

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Yep. From today, from today, May.

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18th in, in Stoney Creek.
What's the park?

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Bayview baby park, Stoney creek. Branford.

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Cool. Why did you start that?

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Oh, right.

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Well, ignorance is bliss has been my
my joke.

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It's like community.

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Like it really.

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It truly just comes back down
to community.

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And I think initially

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I was working for Cultured Cafe
who vended with us last year,

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and I was going to farmer's markets
for them, right, selling their products.

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And I was like, I, I absolutely love this.

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Like it is such a joyous environment.

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You mingle, you meet other vendors,
you meet people of the community.

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There's music. It's just it's this hub.

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It's this space where

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everyone intentionally comes together
to spend a portion of their day.

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Right.

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And I was like,
Stoney Creek is such a wonderful place.

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And ever since I moved back here in 2020,
I've really wanted to get to know

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my neighbors.

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And so starting
this was a in a selfish way

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for me to really get to know the people
I'm I'm living

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next door to and around and see,
but haven't spoken to.

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And so I went to the association

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in 2023 and I was like,
hey, I really want to do this.

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And I did. The sweetest little.

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Rough draft of like, pros and cons of

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why having a farmer's market
would benefit the ecosystem,

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the community of Stoney Creek
and and they.

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Were all. Really on board.

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There was a little
there was a little hesitation.

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Right.

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Because like, traffic is such a such a,

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I don't want to say a problem.

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Right.

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But but a a.

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Topic that comes up often within
small villages and small neighborhoods,

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like how to because Stoney Creek
is such an open place.

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We welcome everyone.

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And and I.

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Really love that about the creek to 
The creek.

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The creek. Yeah.

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Yeah, I'm a creek or.

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So but uncle.

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Uncle that's elder in the,
in the community.

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He was at that meeting and he. Was like,
do you know who her grandfather father is?

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And, yeah, my grandfather and
my grandmother bought the house that I.

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Live in back in the 50s.

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So I'm fourth generation.

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Like no third. Generation.

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But fourth, if you include the.

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Elders that lived with them.

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But so that that's.

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Really what got the ball rolling
was this vision, this idea,

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this dream of just really getting to know

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who's around me
and also inviting resources.

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Right.

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Who's in Connecticut
that can offer food and support and

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and just nourishment to my neighbors,
to this community.

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So, yeah.

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No, it's
I mean, I've been there a few times

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last year and is never problem parking
you just everybody's really chill and calm

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and you just walk and they go about
and nobody's like all freaked out about

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they can't find a spot.

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There's none of that.

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It's a really calm, nice vibe. It is.

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Thank you. Yeah.

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Thank you for acknowledging that too.

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I think it's it's more.

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Of a narrative than an actual. Problem.

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Yeah. The parking there's
no there's no there's really.

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No, there was there was concern.

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But then once we did it right, it
that was evident.

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That wasn't an issue.

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And so it's really nice to see that.

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People come throughout the day.
It's not like.

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Not all. At once. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

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So it's a nice.

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Time in the morning to come
in the afternoon or whatever, you know.

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And it's nice and I'm waiting to go back
because I want to go to Potter's

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farming and it's kielbasa.

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Oh my God, I know.

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I'm so happy that he's coming back to.

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He has great.

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Stuff
and he's an amazing man. And farmers.

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Yeah, he's good.

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And he's got a baker
there who makes amazing sourdough and.

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Yeah.

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So it's I'm I'm super excited.

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And honey lady she makes her honey okay.

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So it's some great great vendors. Yeah.

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Yeah it's it's fantastic to see.

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That so many of those vendors
are coming back.

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To for a second year.

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And then also like, just so.

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Much more diversity and other vendors
wanting to join in and be a part of.

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This and feels like it
grew at a really rapid pace.

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Yeah, just for a second year.

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I'm excited, I'm excited.

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Did you think, like last year that it was
that all of a sudden it happened?

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Are you like where you were?
You like, of course it's going to happen.

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Or you kind of like surprise a little bit
like this is actually like happening.

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Like what was your when like the first
like opening day kind of thing.

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Oh my gosh. So many.

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So many emotions.

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Right.

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Like I joke
that this is kind of like my baby.

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In a way.

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You know.

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And so there's

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still that little bit of anxiety of like,
oh, were people going to show up?

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Are they are they going
to, you know, come and support this?

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And then it's. Always so beautiful to see.

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That that anxiety can be put to ease.

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And opening day was so exciting last year
and it was a consistent flow.

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And it seems like a lot more
people are discovering that we are here.

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And that's really the biggest thing,

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is just getting the word out
that this farmer's market exists and,

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you know, through conversations and
going around town and putting up fliers.

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This year, it just seems like so many more
people are aware of what we're doing.

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And, I'm excited to see what this year
is going to bring.

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And let me tell.

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Like, so, you know, like really holding.

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That value
in that container of this, like.

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This chill vibe, right?

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Like Stony Creek, there's just something
so grounding about the area

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there and the people there. Yeah.

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And so like that homey feel
and growing at the same time.

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Right.

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It's like, how do we grow
but without a sense of urgency.

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Yeah.

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So, letting it
just be a super organic process.

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Yeah. No, it definitely is.

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I mean, you have the market there now
and then there's a little

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there's little shops
and then the restaurants and stuff.

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And then of course,
there's that little strip of grass

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and by the water with the benches, you sit
and you look at the boats

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and the seagulls and the stuff,
and you just kind of hang out and

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kind of let the world disappear
around you.

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It's kind of fun.
So I've done that. It's really nice.

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Yeah.

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And Thunder
stay afterwards and we all go swimming.

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Yeah, yeah. There's so many trails.

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So they'll hang out
and we'll go for a hike. So I'll send.

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Oh that's fine.

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Just. Yeah, it's.

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You can make a whole day of it. Right.

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Whether you're just a visitor or a vendor.

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Yeah, I love it.

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So you had, like,
some experiences leading up to your,

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Stoney Creek farmers market.

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You traveled.

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So tell me
some of your travel experiences.

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I can't I'm sorry, I can't remember.
I can't have an example, I don't remember.

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It was last year, and my brain
sometimes doesn't go that far back.

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But you're telling me you don't remember
all the details of my life?

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No, don't. I don't remember,

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but. Hey, sorry.

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It's okay.

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I also it's like I'm always like,
oh, wait, that's right.

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That that was my life too.

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It's nice. It's
nice to reflect. On those moments.

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And yeah, I've done a lot of traveling.

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When I was 19, traditional college.

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Didn't seem the right route for me.

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And so I bought a one way ticket to
Finland, and I did, Weifang and work away

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projects throughout, Finland
and Lithuania and Belgium and Scotland.

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And so I was out there for a little over
six months until I had no more money.

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Yeah.

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And I was like, dad, I got to come home.

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Okay? Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And I really, I feel like I.

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Went out on that venture.

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To discover pieces.

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And parts of who I am
and what my interests are,

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and that has really been
the whole journey.

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Right?

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I mean, that continuing to be the journey
of learning who I am.

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But I feel like those moments where

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maybe I felt lost or I was seeking it,
they were all really just teaching me

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and kind of forming me into
the human that I am today.

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And I, I was, I was lost like,

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I went out of

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I don't want to say fear,
but I, I struggled with my mental health.

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I struggled with different substances.

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And when I came back, I felt really lost
within those places in my life, too.

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Not feeling secure.

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And then I had the opportunity to go

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to Costa Rica, to the spiritual center.

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And I went as a client and I lived off
grid for about three months.

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And I always say that it saved my life.

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It it really did it, it it taught me

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just that, to be in relationship
with that one inner guide.

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But that connection to my heart,
with that connection to myself.

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And I ended up returning there shortly
after as a volunteer.

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And stayed there as a staff member,
for nearly two years.

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And wow.

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I, I always joke around that they raised
me in my 20s and and they did in a way.

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You know, it gave me an opportunity

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to restart and question who I am
and who I want to be.

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And I go back every year, To just.

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Commune and, and also recenter and be of.

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Service.

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And. Yeah.

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And then I moved back here
and love in 2020,

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because I want to go and get
my certification and yoga in Guatemala.

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And then and I had the option

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of either going to Costa Rica
or coming back to the States.

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And I was like, oh, like I got to.

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Get stuff from home anyway.

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Like it's going to be, what, like two.

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Weeks of like shut. Down and.

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Okay.

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You know.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. That didn't happen.

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And then I fell in love with gardening.

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And, and plants.

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And I went down the path of becoming
a clinical herbalist and, Yeah.

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Just really created a.

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Life or am creating a life here. So.

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Yeah, I love it.

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I love it. Cut.

248
00:10:37,637 --> 00:10:40,172
Where the
the retreat center in Costa Rica.

249
00:10:40,172 --> 00:10:41,607
Where what where is that?

250
00:10:41,607 --> 00:10:44,043
So it's right outside of this tiny.

251
00:10:44,043 --> 00:10:46,112
Little town called Algo Cut, which is.

252
00:10:46,112 --> 00:10:47,246
Right. Avocado.

253
00:10:47,246 --> 00:10:50,750
But it's on Lake Arenal,
so it's in the Guanacaste region.

254
00:10:51,050 --> 00:10:51,517
It's like.

255
00:10:51,517 --> 00:10:54,253
Northwest. Northwest. Okay. Yeah. Sorry.

256
00:10:54,253 --> 00:10:55,921
Go up. That way. Okay.

257
00:10:55,921 --> 00:10:58,424
Yeah, I went down to Santa Teresa.

258
00:10:58,424 --> 00:10:59,825
Two years ago last year.

259
00:10:59,825 --> 00:11:00,359
It's another.

260
00:11:00,359 --> 00:11:02,762
It's a beautiful country.
Yeah, it's it's amazing.

261
00:11:02,762 --> 00:11:05,564
Yeah, I, I've been twice
I send it to I've been to, you know.

262
00:11:05,564 --> 00:11:07,833
Sorry. And Santa Teresa I was all,
I was all on the go.

263
00:11:07,833 --> 00:11:11,637
I didn't go, but the reason I asked
because I was, I went, I took a bus.

264
00:11:11,637 --> 00:11:12,938
I want to concentrate on this,

265
00:11:12,938 --> 00:11:15,941
like little weird
peninsula thing, you know, on the Pacific.

266
00:11:16,776 --> 00:11:19,045
Anyway, so I went to took a bus across

267
00:11:19,045 --> 00:11:21,847
the peninsula to go
look at some waterfalls or something.

268
00:11:21,847 --> 00:11:23,749
I never made it to the waterfalls,
but I'm. I'm walking.

269
00:11:23,749 --> 00:11:24,417
I decided,

270
00:11:24,417 --> 00:11:25,718
you know, instead of taking the path

271
00:11:25,718 --> 00:11:28,187
that everybody takes, I'm like,
I'm going to do different.

272
00:11:28,187 --> 00:11:30,656
Yeah, it didn't work out.

273
00:11:30,656 --> 00:11:31,891
And it's all uphill.

274
00:11:31,891 --> 00:11:36,062
I have, it's it's blazing hot and it's
I have Birkenstocks on and whatever,

275
00:11:36,595 --> 00:11:37,997
and I'm just walking and walking.

276
00:11:37,997 --> 00:11:41,000
And finally I found this,
like yoga retreat,

277
00:11:41,300 --> 00:11:44,303
meditation
center, like, way on top of the hill.

278
00:11:44,804 --> 00:11:46,238
And, I.

279
00:11:46,238 --> 00:11:51,610
Just, I go in there, I'm, like,
soaking wet, just sweating and dehydrated.

280
00:11:51,610 --> 00:11:53,145
And I had no water left. And

281
00:11:54,413 --> 00:11:57,416
I was like, oh.

282
00:11:58,417 --> 00:11:59,552
Did they welcome you?

283
00:11:59,552 --> 00:12:01,253
They did. Oh, they were super cool.

284
00:12:01,253 --> 00:12:03,589
They're like, have a seat,
let me get some water.

285
00:12:03,589 --> 00:12:06,592
So I sat, I drank a little bit of water
and then I just walked down the hill

286
00:12:06,592 --> 00:12:08,728
and I got back on the bus
and I went back like.

287
00:12:08,728 --> 00:12:09,895
Like I'm. It's like.

288
00:12:09,895 --> 00:12:11,630
Never saw the waterfall.

289
00:12:11,630 --> 00:12:13,766
But it was fun. It was.
It was a blast. Yeah.

290
00:12:13,766 --> 00:12:15,801
No it was,
it's such a it's such a neat country.

291
00:12:15,801 --> 00:12:17,536
And the people are really sweet and they.

292
00:12:17,536 --> 00:12:19,839
Truly live by our provider, right? Yeah.

293
00:12:19,839 --> 00:12:20,673
Oh my God. Yeah.

294
00:12:20,673 --> 00:12:23,442
It's like pure life. Like,
everyone is just like, come sit down.

295
00:12:23,442 --> 00:12:24,577
Yeah. Some beet juice.

296
00:12:24,577 --> 00:12:27,146
What do you. Mean
they're amazing? Yeah. They're amazing.

297
00:12:27,146 --> 00:12:29,315
So that's that's very cool that you go
there. Yeah.

298
00:12:29,315 --> 00:12:30,483
Yeah I love that man.

299
00:12:30,483 --> 00:12:32,351
That's very, very, you know, very cool.

300
00:12:32,351 --> 00:12:35,221
And then I can feel that
you bring all that energy with you because

301
00:12:35,221 --> 00:12:40,459
it's just this very calmness sort of that
you sort of vibe you got going on.

302
00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:42,228
There's no urgency much to anything.

303
00:12:42,228 --> 00:12:45,531
But things get done, obviously, because
you just you created a farmers market.

304
00:12:45,531 --> 00:12:47,767
So it's not like just hanging out.

305
00:12:47,767 --> 00:12:48,701
Yeah. Yeah.

306
00:12:48,701 --> 00:12:51,604
Those cracks me up when people are like,
you're so calm.

307
00:12:51,604 --> 00:12:55,441
I'm like, I have 500 things going,
yeah, inside of me right now.

308
00:12:55,441 --> 00:12:58,744
But I like, you know,
and it's all, it's all beautiful.

309
00:12:58,744 --> 00:13:02,782
Yeah, I do, I would say that I like to, 
I like to direct.

310
00:13:02,782 --> 00:13:06,018
My energy towards things that feel,
I don't know,

311
00:13:06,018 --> 00:13:09,021
not just beneficial for me
but for the community.

312
00:13:09,321 --> 00:13:09,855
It's hard.

313
00:13:09,855 --> 00:13:10,923
It's hard to do.

314
00:13:10,923 --> 00:13:14,126
It's hard
to like to be able to to do that.

315
00:13:14,126 --> 00:13:15,394
And I mean, you can do that, right?

316
00:13:15,394 --> 00:13:18,430
But then you also got to like, survive
and eat and stuff.

317
00:13:18,597 --> 00:13:21,600
So it's hard to like channel
that and do really what you want to do

318
00:13:21,801 --> 00:13:25,538
and still be able to live
and sustain yourself and stuff like that.

319
00:13:26,071 --> 00:13:30,242
So it's a it's a difficult balance and
you seem to figure that out a little bit.

320
00:13:30,242 --> 00:13:31,410
I have fun with it.

321
00:13:31,410 --> 00:13:32,611
Yeah. You know, I think.

322
00:13:32,611 --> 00:13:35,214
It's really important
just to remember to not take.

323
00:13:35,214 --> 00:13:36,549
It all so seriously.

324
00:13:36,549 --> 00:13:38,284
And that's what. I come back. To too.

325
00:13:38,284 --> 00:13:42,855
It's just like like,
how can this process be of joy?

326
00:13:42,888 --> 00:13:43,489
Right?

327
00:13:43,489 --> 00:13:47,226
And like when I'm like, coming
from that place, it doesn't drain me.

328
00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:50,763
If I'm coming from a place of like,
I have to get this done

329
00:13:50,763 --> 00:13:56,168
and it becomes an obligation that I meet
like that resistance within myself.

330
00:13:56,168 --> 00:13:58,671
So it doesn't feel like work.

331
00:13:58,671 --> 00:14:04,009
It feels like something I'm really excited
to do and and put my energy towards.

332
00:14:04,076 --> 00:14:04,710
Yeah that's good.

333
00:14:04,710 --> 00:14:07,980
So yeah. Yeah. And how to.

334
00:14:08,414 --> 00:14:11,483
Also have it be this source of income.

335
00:14:11,483 --> 00:14:11,817
Right.

336
00:14:11,817 --> 00:14:16,622
Like that's like I'm realizing that
oh like this is actually like

337
00:14:16,622 --> 00:14:21,660
I have a skill in this, you know, like
I love networking, I love people, I love

338
00:14:21,660 --> 00:14:26,165
connecting and like creating containers
where people can share their gifts.

339
00:14:26,165 --> 00:14:29,602
Like, that's really exciting to me.

340
00:14:29,602 --> 00:14:32,605
And because I think
everyone has something to share.

341
00:14:32,738 --> 00:14:33,038
Yeah.

342
00:14:33,038 --> 00:14:37,943
You know, and so I don't know exactly what
that looks like, but like moving

343
00:14:38,377 --> 00:14:42,314
towards that and, and making choices
that are moving towards that.

344
00:14:42,381 --> 00:14:42,848
I like that,

345
00:14:42,848 --> 00:14:46,218
and I think people are looking for ways
to share what they have to offer.

346
00:14:46,218 --> 00:14:47,286
And sometimes it's hard for them.

347
00:14:47,286 --> 00:14:48,821
So they have an easy outlet,

348
00:14:48,821 --> 00:14:51,690
you know, like the market
where they can come in if they, you know,

349
00:14:51,690 --> 00:14:55,227
they have cut flowers that they like
to share with people and sell them.

350
00:14:55,227 --> 00:14:56,929
And, it because everybody's,

351
00:14:56,929 --> 00:14:59,331
they're so happy to just to talk
and explain what they do

352
00:14:59,331 --> 00:15:01,533
and how they do it
and where everything's from and stuff,

353
00:15:01,533 --> 00:15:04,536
you know, it's
it's really kind of a neat because.

354
00:15:04,536 --> 00:15:07,539
Yeah. Yeah. And also people creating.

355
00:15:07,573 --> 00:15:10,442
Community offerings,
like we have the neighborhood music school

356
00:15:10,442 --> 00:15:13,412
coming this year
to come and do some stuff with the kids,

357
00:15:13,412 --> 00:15:16,348
and then there's some other yoga
instructors that are going to come,

358
00:15:16,348 --> 00:15:20,152
and that little bench area
you're speaking of by the water.

359
00:15:20,185 --> 00:15:21,553
Yeah, we're going to kind of have it.

360
00:15:21,553 --> 00:15:25,524
So it lines up where they can do a yoga
class, a yoga flow there.

361
00:15:25,824 --> 00:15:26,225
Right.

362
00:15:26,225 --> 00:15:28,527
And everyone
can meet up at the farmer's market

363
00:15:28,527 --> 00:15:31,397
or go to the farmer's
market afterwards kind of thing.

364
00:15:31,397 --> 00:15:33,933
So collaborating and a bit more.

365
00:15:34,900 --> 00:15:37,903
Creative ways, it's really good.

366
00:15:38,037 --> 00:15:39,805
Yeah. We need those outlets.

367
00:15:39,805 --> 00:15:42,207
What else,
what else do you do to keep yourself busy

368
00:15:42,207 --> 00:15:43,342
like you have the farmers market.

369
00:15:43,342 --> 00:15:44,710
But then that's all in May.

370
00:15:44,710 --> 00:15:46,612
To what, October.

371
00:15:46,612 --> 00:15:47,146
That November.

372
00:15:47,146 --> 00:15:47,680
Well yeah.

373
00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:48,881
May to November.

374
00:15:48,881 --> 00:15:52,251
Definitely a lot of pre work. Right.

375
00:15:52,251 --> 00:15:56,689
Like I've been communicating and mapping
and and scheduling with all of the,

376
00:15:56,689 --> 00:16:00,793
the vendors,
and will be up until, up until we launch.

377
00:16:00,793 --> 00:16:03,629
And then it's
kind of more just useful may to November.

378
00:16:03,629 --> 00:16:07,499
But I'm also right now
I'm taking two courses I gateway,

379
00:16:07,533 --> 00:16:11,403
I'm hearing back from Wesleyan this week
whether or not I got.

380
00:16:11,403 --> 00:16:13,372
Accepted as a transfer student.

381
00:16:13,372 --> 00:16:14,907
So congratulations.

382
00:16:14,907 --> 00:16:15,541
Thank you.

383
00:16:15,541 --> 00:16:17,042
I hope that works out for you.
That's awesome.

384
00:16:17,042 --> 00:16:19,979
Yeah, yeah,
I applied last fall as the early.

385
00:16:19,979 --> 00:16:22,614
Decision,
and since I haven't been in academia

386
00:16:22,614 --> 00:16:25,751
for a decade, they were like,
go and take a couple of classes.

387
00:16:25,751 --> 00:16:26,051
Okay.

388
00:16:26,051 --> 00:16:29,121
If you do well, we would love to take you
as a transfer student.

389
00:16:29,121 --> 00:16:30,789
Awesome. So awesome.

390
00:16:30,789 --> 00:16:31,924
I'm doing well.

391
00:16:31,924 --> 00:16:34,293
Did you do. Well? Okay.
You're doing very well. Good, good.

392
00:16:35,828 --> 00:16:37,262
I really love my professors.

393
00:16:37,262 --> 00:16:39,031
So that makes all the difference too.

394
00:16:39,031 --> 00:16:43,936
I think so, but I'm just taking
a composition class and a sociology class.

395
00:16:43,936 --> 00:16:44,770
Or not just.

396
00:16:44,770 --> 00:16:49,308
But those are two subjects
that I'm, like, very passionate about. So.

397
00:16:49,942 --> 00:16:51,810
I. Hear back this week, all right.

398
00:16:51,810 --> 00:16:54,513
Whether or not Wesleyan is on the horizon.

399
00:16:54,513 --> 00:16:55,547
I think so. Yeah.

400
00:16:55,547 --> 00:16:56,515
Yeah, yeah.

401
00:16:56,515 --> 00:16:58,684
So yeah, anyone from Wesleyan is.

402
00:16:58,684 --> 00:17:00,686
Like.

403
00:17:00,686 --> 00:17:03,055
You know, you want. To.

404
00:17:03,055 --> 00:17:04,323
Absolutely.

405
00:17:04,323 --> 00:17:06,392
Would you live would you live up there
or would you commute?

406
00:17:06,392 --> 00:17:07,226
No. I'd commute.

407
00:17:07,226 --> 00:17:11,830
It's a 35 minute drive through like the,
the farmland and everything is beautiful.

408
00:17:12,131 --> 00:17:12,731
Yeah.

409
00:17:12,731 --> 00:17:13,866
Yeah. Ideal.

410
00:17:13,866 --> 00:17:16,802
So, that's on my plate.

411
00:17:16,802 --> 00:17:19,772
I also do volunteer
work with the Land Trust.

412
00:17:19,972 --> 00:17:20,372
Okay.

413
00:17:20,372 --> 00:17:23,809
So I, I get the letters series. Yeah.

414
00:17:23,809 --> 00:17:28,447
And we do, like a 20, every year, 20,
25, speaker series.

415
00:17:28,447 --> 00:17:32,618
I've actually just taken that torch
from someone who's been or been gifted,

416
00:17:33,285 --> 00:17:35,854
invited to take the torch, from someone

417
00:17:35,854 --> 00:17:39,658
who's been organizing this series
for over 25 years now.

418
00:17:39,658 --> 00:17:41,293
So that's. Been nice.

419
00:17:41,293 --> 00:17:44,496
I collaborate with different educators
and and people that work

420
00:17:44,496 --> 00:17:51,303
within the agriculture, agricultural and
environmental areas and in Connecticut.

421
00:17:51,303 --> 00:17:54,173
And they come and
and speak on different subjects that.

422
00:17:54,173 --> 00:17:56,909
Cool. Yeah. And I just hike a lot.

423
00:17:56,909 --> 00:17:58,210
Yeah, I work out a lot.

424
00:17:58,210 --> 00:18:02,147
And I just applied to be a barista.

425
00:18:02,147 --> 00:18:04,483
Because I'm like,
I resist the nine to. Five,

426
00:18:05,851 --> 00:18:08,087
but like, yes, well, that's got to eat.

427
00:18:08,087 --> 00:18:09,288
Yeah, yeah.

428
00:18:09,288 --> 00:18:11,023
It's I'm getting it. Yeah. It's
hard. Yeah.

429
00:18:11,023 --> 00:18:12,591
I haven't had a 9 to 5 in a while.

430
00:18:12,591 --> 00:18:15,961
And sometimes you think like
especially like around the holidays

431
00:18:15,961 --> 00:18:17,996
and then early winter and things
kind of slow down a little bit.

432
00:18:17,996 --> 00:18:20,999
Everybody's sort of regrouping and stuff
and like

433
00:18:23,168 --> 00:18:25,471
So far so good things are good.

434
00:18:25,471 --> 00:18:26,338
So yeah. No.

435
00:18:26,338 --> 00:18:29,007
It's funny. So good for you.
Yeah, yeah. No, hiking is great.

436
00:18:29,007 --> 00:18:31,410
I used to I used to do more
more hiking than I do now.

437
00:18:31,410 --> 00:18:33,011
My youngest son does a lot of hiking.

438
00:18:33,011 --> 00:18:35,581
I talked to him,
and he's always taking the dog out.

439
00:18:35,581 --> 00:18:40,052
And just the explorers all over the place
go to different parks and whatever.

440
00:18:40,052 --> 00:18:41,286
You know,
there's a bunch of stuff in Connecticut.

441
00:18:41,286 --> 00:18:41,920
We're lucky.

442
00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:43,655
Oh yeah, with a lot of things
in. Connecticut, there's.

443
00:18:43,655 --> 00:18:45,858
So many beautiful trails around here.

444
00:18:45,858 --> 00:18:47,826
And then I really pair the hiking.

445
00:18:47,826 --> 00:18:49,528
So like I said, I, I'm.

446
00:18:49,528 --> 00:18:53,198
A clinical herbalist and I don't work
with patients so much anymore.

447
00:18:53,198 --> 00:18:54,900
I did that for about a year.

448
00:18:54,900 --> 00:18:57,236
I really love just making medicine.

449
00:18:57,236 --> 00:18:59,304
I like, built an apothecary in my house.

450
00:18:59,304 --> 00:19:03,442
And so I like have on my shelves
my tinctures and my dried herbs.

451
00:19:03,442 --> 00:19:05,544
But so I like working my garden.

452
00:19:05,544 --> 00:19:06,979
And then. Yeah, totally.

453
00:19:06,979 --> 00:19:08,547
I would love to make some remedies.

454
00:19:08,547 --> 00:19:10,048
Yeah, that'll be fun.

455
00:19:10,048 --> 00:19:10,449
All right.

456
00:19:10,449 --> 00:19:13,685
But so yeah,
I'm always, I'm always, like.

457
00:19:14,153 --> 00:19:16,788
Concocting
and making some different things.

458
00:19:16,788 --> 00:19:19,491
So that's
what are some that's interesting.

459
00:19:19,491 --> 00:19:21,393
That's that's that's pretty cool.

460
00:19:21,393 --> 00:19:25,964
So what are some of the things like where
do you think think tincture tinctures

461
00:19:26,031 --> 00:19:28,767
or some of the tinctures you make like
what are some of remedies that people need

462
00:19:28,767 --> 00:19:30,135
or that you need that
you make for yourself?

463
00:19:30,135 --> 00:19:31,937
So I do a lot of like.

464
00:19:31,937 --> 00:19:34,940
Heart centered and. Anxiety.

465
00:19:35,174 --> 00:19:36,475
Plans. Yeah.

466
00:19:36,475 --> 00:19:38,710
Right now
I'm working a lot with anesthesia.

467
00:19:38,710 --> 00:19:41,446
So do you know he's up? She's.

468
00:19:41,446 --> 00:19:44,449
Like, in the mint family,
or they're in the mint family.

469
00:19:44,449 --> 00:19:47,653
Tall purple flowers.

470
00:19:48,453 --> 00:19:51,123
Really, really nice. Soothing.
Almost like.

471
00:19:51,123 --> 00:19:53,659
People who don't like licorice,
but they still like her.

472
00:19:53,659 --> 00:19:55,827
She has somewhat. Of that licorice flavor.

473
00:19:55,827 --> 00:19:56,562
Okay, I.

474
00:19:56,562 --> 00:19:59,565
Apologize, I do call plant cheese, and.

475
00:19:59,631 --> 00:20:00,632
She's.

476
00:20:00,632 --> 00:20:03,368
But she is. He's so, So.

477
00:20:03,368 --> 00:20:04,670
Yeah, but that's very.

478
00:20:04,670 --> 00:20:06,638
Relaxing to the digestive system.

479
00:20:06,638 --> 00:20:08,440
But also the nervous system.

480
00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:12,144
And I work a lot with wild lettuce too,
and that's for, like,

481
00:20:12,144 --> 00:20:16,215
pain relief
and also really relaxing before bed.

482
00:20:16,415 --> 00:20:16,782
Okay.

483
00:20:16,782 --> 00:20:19,918
And this is all like
I had the majority of my medicine

484
00:20:19,918 --> 00:20:24,289
is like from around
like the total kit land from Branford.

485
00:20:24,423 --> 00:20:25,857
Okay. Yeah.

486
00:20:25,857 --> 00:20:29,828
So do you find do you like you
you said you grow your own a little bit.

487
00:20:29,828 --> 00:20:30,062
Yeah.

488
00:20:30,062 --> 00:20:30,963
And then do you find stuff

489
00:20:30,963 --> 00:20:34,499
like when you're hiking,
do you look for things and you find stuff.

490
00:20:34,499 --> 00:20:37,002
Yeah, yeah. Ramps are out right now.

491
00:20:37,002 --> 00:20:38,136
The one cramps.

492
00:20:38,136 --> 00:20:38,837
Okay. Nope.

493
00:20:38,837 --> 00:20:39,304
Okay.

494
00:20:39,304 --> 00:20:42,241
We, family for garlic, onion.

495
00:20:42,241 --> 00:20:43,108
Oh, okay.

496
00:20:43,108 --> 00:20:45,711
And they have, like, spinach, like leaves.

497
00:20:45,711 --> 00:20:48,180
They're really, really beautiful. Right.

498
00:20:48,180 --> 00:20:51,583
And you need to be mindful
to only take one leaf per plant or else.

499
00:20:51,950 --> 00:20:53,752
You know, you can kill the plant.

500
00:20:53,752 --> 00:20:56,355
Or you don't want to take the bulb
because then they won't come. Back.

501
00:20:56,355 --> 00:20:57,689
Sure, but they, they.

502
00:20:57,689 --> 00:20:59,725
Go in like these, like muddy areas.

503
00:20:59,725 --> 00:21:02,461
So I've been trail running
and then I just like.

504
00:21:02,461 --> 00:21:04,296
Harvest and use my hat,

505
00:21:05,330 --> 00:21:06,832
I love it, grab it.

506
00:21:06,832 --> 00:21:07,232
Just like.

507
00:21:07,232 --> 00:21:09,301
Running and gnawing on on greens.

508
00:21:09,301 --> 00:21:10,235
Leafy greens.

509
00:21:10,235 --> 00:21:12,871
But then they make the best pesto.

510
00:21:12,871 --> 00:21:14,006
Okay. Oh, right.

511
00:21:14,006 --> 00:21:18,677
And then also when you think about
the time of year that we're in allium

512
00:21:18,677 --> 00:21:23,515
plants, those bitters and those like,
more, astringent and garlicky

513
00:21:23,782 --> 00:21:26,918
kind of herbs are going to be really good
for your digestion.

514
00:21:27,219 --> 00:21:29,821
So it's like the transition into kapha
season.

515
00:21:29,821 --> 00:21:34,526
Okay, so extra mucus, everyone's coughing,
everyone has the allergies.

516
00:21:34,793 --> 00:21:36,662
Those plants are going to help.

517
00:21:36,662 --> 00:21:39,331
Okay. Alleviate all of that extra I feel.

518
00:21:39,331 --> 00:21:43,702
Like this is probably like a lost
like knowledge for a lot of people.

519
00:21:43,869 --> 00:21:46,571
Like I'm sure that was very common I know.

520
00:21:46,571 --> 00:21:47,806
Oh my gosh. Yeah.

521
00:21:47,806 --> 00:21:50,809
Even to even. Two generations. Ago.

522
00:21:50,942 --> 00:21:53,945
You know, speaking to an elder yesterday,
it's like my grandmother

523
00:21:53,945 --> 00:21:55,681
used to make dandelion wine.

524
00:21:55,681 --> 00:21:57,849
I was just going to ask you
about dandelions. Yeah, yeah.

525
00:21:57,849 --> 00:21:59,618
It's like I'm. A big believer.

526
00:21:59,618 --> 00:22:02,254
I'm like, yeah, the wildflower movement.

527
00:22:02,254 --> 00:22:05,257
Like, we do not need sterile green yards.

528
00:22:05,324 --> 00:22:09,261
There is no function or purpose to it
and is super harmful.

529
00:22:09,261 --> 00:22:13,098
And so like, let the flowers grow, right?

530
00:22:13,098 --> 00:22:15,067
Like I was I was late because I.

531
00:22:15,067 --> 00:22:16,234
Was playing in my backyard

532
00:22:16,234 --> 00:22:19,404
with my five best friend and neighbor
because for like there's.

533
00:22:19,404 --> 00:22:25,243
Violets and dandelions and like, 
you know, the fact that yes, maybe.

534
00:22:25,243 --> 00:22:30,382
In a sense it's been lost,
but it's not, it's not forgotten.

535
00:22:30,482 --> 00:22:30,949
Right?

536
00:22:30,949 --> 00:22:34,953
Or maybe it's been forgotten, but
it's not lost however you want to put it.

537
00:22:34,953 --> 00:22:36,355
But it's still here

538
00:22:36,355 --> 00:22:40,926
and people are still like practicing
and carrying that wisdom and sharing it.

539
00:22:40,926 --> 00:22:41,893
And yeah.

540
00:22:41,893 --> 00:22:45,364
Have you thought about, like
taking people out on hikes and showing

541
00:22:45,364 --> 00:22:48,900
them, you know, what's good, what's bad,
what it's used for, that kind of stuff?

542
00:22:49,234 --> 00:22:50,135
Yeah, yeah.

543
00:22:50,135 --> 00:22:50,902
I do want.

544
00:22:50,902 --> 00:22:54,306
To find myself teaching a bit more
before getting more.

545
00:22:54,306 --> 00:22:56,241
Comfortable public speaking.

546
00:22:56,241 --> 00:22:58,744
Okay. That's then like,
are you doing good?

547
00:22:58,744 --> 00:23:00,045
Yeah. You're.

548
00:23:03,248 --> 00:23:03,548
Yeah.

549
00:23:03,548 --> 00:23:05,684
I appreciate the reassurance,

550
00:23:05,684 --> 00:23:09,488
but the one of the one on one
I'm, I'm a bit better with.

551
00:23:09,488 --> 00:23:12,491
It's like,
put me in a room of people and I'm like,

552
00:23:13,291 --> 00:23:14,459
hi. I'm scared.

553
00:23:14,459 --> 00:23:16,294
Like, I don't even know my name.

554
00:23:16,294 --> 00:23:17,596
I just start with that.

555
00:23:17,596 --> 00:23:18,930
But I'm, I'm, I'm.

556
00:23:18,930 --> 00:23:22,567
Growing into more comfortable
zones and that.

557
00:23:22,567 --> 00:23:24,102
And so as I do, I think right.

558
00:23:24,102 --> 00:23:28,573
It's just exposure therapy like you got to
do it in order to kind of overcome that.

559
00:23:28,573 --> 00:23:32,944
And so, but once I start going on plants,
like I can't stop.

560
00:23:32,944 --> 00:23:35,914
So I think that would.
Be a great place for me.

561
00:23:35,914 --> 00:23:38,283
Yeah. I'll let you know when I do a plant
walk.

562
00:23:38,283 --> 00:23:40,585
Yeah, definitely let me know
because I'll be there.

563
00:23:40,585 --> 00:23:42,854
But that's very good
because I would love to kind of know more

564
00:23:42,854 --> 00:23:44,523
because I'll be like, I'm like,
I wonder what that is. Like.

565
00:23:44,523 --> 00:23:45,257
I'm not going to eat that.

566
00:23:45,257 --> 00:23:46,525
But I wonder if I could kind of thing

567
00:23:46,525 --> 00:23:47,926
because you don't
want to eat the wrong stuff.

568
00:23:47,926 --> 00:23:50,395
Because it may be.
I mean, what's the danger of like

569
00:23:51,496 --> 00:23:52,664
if somebody is trying

570
00:23:52,664 --> 00:23:55,867
like a they read a book and they say, oh,
I think that's such and such whatever.

571
00:23:55,867 --> 00:23:59,371
And they eat like, is there anything like
if somebody eats it, that's something.

572
00:23:59,371 --> 00:24:00,806
I mean,
besides maybe getting a stomach ache.

573
00:24:00,806 --> 00:24:02,641
Yeah. Most times. Right.

574
00:24:02,641 --> 00:24:06,211
If you're just the tiniest bit
like you would be okay.

575
00:24:06,211 --> 00:24:09,514
It would be like a stomach ache
or a headache or these reactions,

576
00:24:09,514 --> 00:24:12,717
if you eat a large quantity,
then you need to be more concerned, right?

577
00:24:12,717 --> 00:24:17,756
Like Lily of the Valley and ramps
are the two biggest, like the ones

578
00:24:17,756 --> 00:24:20,926
that you need to be concerned about
because lily of the Valley is deadly.

579
00:24:21,092 --> 00:24:23,495
And so that could that could kill you.

580
00:24:23,495 --> 00:24:26,264
And, 
you don't want to do. That, no doubt.

581
00:24:26,264 --> 00:24:27,933
So I probably wouldn't be a no.

582
00:24:27,933 --> 00:24:29,835
That would be a hard death,
I would think. Yeah.

583
00:24:29,835 --> 00:24:31,636
I don't think it would.
Be like that. Pretty.

584
00:24:31,636 --> 00:24:32,971
That's a pretty flower.

585
00:24:32,971 --> 00:24:35,340
Okay. Flowers. A lot
prettier than the death that she.

586
00:24:35,340 --> 00:24:37,976
But yeah, I would yeah, I would think so.

587
00:24:37,976 --> 00:24:39,044
Yeah.

588
00:24:39,044 --> 00:24:40,645
So you know the deadliest one. Yeah.

589
00:24:40,645 --> 00:24:42,280
And you don't want to eat berries, right.

590
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,884
That you don't know
and like like elderflower.

591
00:24:45,884 --> 00:24:47,652
Right. Do you know elderberry.

592
00:24:47,652 --> 00:24:50,856
I've heard of it of course, but I can't
I couldn't pick it out.

593
00:24:50,889 --> 00:24:51,790
Right. It grows.

594
00:24:51,790 --> 00:24:53,425
It grows all. Around.

595
00:24:53,425 --> 00:24:56,161
And the the. Flowers and the berries.

596
00:24:56,161 --> 00:24:57,462
The berries. You can't. Eat raw.

597
00:24:57,462 --> 00:24:59,364
You have to cook.
You need to put in water.

598
00:24:59,364 --> 00:25:02,267
Or you could make a tincture out of them.
Okay. Right.

599
00:25:02,267 --> 00:25:04,536
But you never want
to eat the actual fruit.

600
00:25:04,536 --> 00:25:06,171
And then the flowers are fine.

601
00:25:06,171 --> 00:25:09,541
But if you eat the bark or the leaves,
like you could get really

602
00:25:09,541 --> 00:25:12,844
sick, like, you know,
so it's also knowing about the part.

603
00:25:12,844 --> 00:25:15,413
So I do think it's wise, right?

604
00:25:15,413 --> 00:25:20,385
If you don't know ask right
or do some research and I mean

605
00:25:20,385 --> 00:25:25,457
there's a lot of information online and
I don't always think that it's correct.

606
00:25:25,457 --> 00:25:28,460
Right. It like TikTok
I wouldn't learn from.

607
00:25:28,493 --> 00:25:29,928
You know, I don't, you know, like.

608
00:25:29,928 --> 00:25:34,199
Learn from someone who's really hands on
in the ground, like doing this, but,

609
00:25:34,666 --> 00:25:39,104
and I'm grateful I've had a lot of really
fantastic teachers and,

610
00:25:40,739 --> 00:25:41,306
and like.

611
00:25:41,306 --> 00:25:42,574
They. Yeah.

612
00:25:42,574 --> 00:25:45,043
So what's your title with that?

613
00:25:45,043 --> 00:25:46,444
Like, what are you certified.

614
00:25:46,444 --> 00:25:50,315
What's there on this certified
clinical herbalist clinical.

615
00:25:50,315 --> 00:25:52,517
It sounds so professional. Yeah.

616
00:25:52,517 --> 00:25:54,719
But I also like to just I'm I'm.

617
00:25:54,719 --> 00:25:56,555
A community herbalist.

618
00:25:56,555 --> 00:25:57,255
Okay?

619
00:25:57,255 --> 00:26:00,258
I'm a lover of plants like that.

620
00:26:00,292 --> 00:26:01,660
Yeah, I love it.

621
00:26:01,660 --> 00:26:03,995
Maybe it kind of like a chaos gremlin.

622
00:26:03,995 --> 00:26:06,298
What creature kind of feel.

623
00:26:06,298 --> 00:26:07,432
Yeah. Okay, okay.

624
00:26:07,432 --> 00:26:09,434
Chaos gremlin. Woodland creature.
That's cool.

625
00:26:09,434 --> 00:26:11,036
Okay, maybe we cut that out. I.

626
00:26:11,036 --> 00:26:14,039
No, no.

627
00:26:15,774 --> 00:26:17,175
We'll keep that in.

628
00:26:17,175 --> 00:26:20,178
Okay, I like it.

629
00:26:20,178 --> 00:26:21,513
It's funny.

630
00:26:21,513 --> 00:26:21,913
What?

631
00:26:21,913 --> 00:26:24,916
Like, what are some of the things
you grow in your house?

632
00:26:25,550 --> 00:26:28,219
Ooh, lots of camomile lemon balm.

633
00:26:28,219 --> 00:26:30,589
I have patches of nettles now, which.

634
00:26:30,589 --> 00:26:31,756
Is so. Exciting.

635
00:26:31,756 --> 00:26:32,290
And b.

636
00:26:32,290 --> 00:26:35,627
Balm, Saint John's war room.

637
00:26:36,027 --> 00:26:36,194
Yeah.

638
00:26:36,194 --> 00:26:37,262
Marshmallow.

639
00:26:37,262 --> 00:26:39,230
And then I do like your marshmallow.

640
00:26:39,230 --> 00:26:41,032
Marshmallow root, not marshmallow.

641
00:26:41,032 --> 00:26:43,468
Yeah, like you're not going to get,
like, the pushy little dude.

642
00:26:43,468 --> 00:26:45,403
So I would be really cool.
That would be cool.

643
00:26:45,403 --> 00:26:47,739
Yeah.
The flowers are really soft and okay,

644
00:26:48,707 --> 00:26:49,174
okay.

645
00:26:49,174 --> 00:26:51,643
Marshmallow is really good
for your digestive.

646
00:26:51,643 --> 00:26:54,646
I never heard of that plant
called marshmallow.

647
00:26:55,013 --> 00:26:55,680
Althea.

648
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,350
Althea.

649
00:26:58,350 --> 00:27:00,185
I forget the genus, but.

650
00:27:00,185 --> 00:27:02,320
Yeah. Really tall.

651
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:03,989
Okay. Beautiful.

652
00:27:03,989 --> 00:27:04,623
All right.

653
00:27:04,623 --> 00:27:06,191
Well, lady.

654
00:27:06,191 --> 00:27:08,226
I mean, of course.

655
00:27:08,226 --> 00:27:10,562
No men, no men in the garden.

656
00:27:10,562 --> 00:27:12,998
No. The fungi. Oh, the. Oh, okay.

657
00:27:12,998 --> 00:27:13,999
That makes sense.

658
00:27:13,999 --> 00:27:18,570
Which we have a really fantastic, 
fungi cultivator.

659
00:27:18,670 --> 00:27:21,373
Okay.
It's going to be joining us this year too.

660
00:27:21,373 --> 00:27:22,440
Yeah. Oh, good.

661
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,110
City of Patrick is great. Oh, cool.

662
00:27:25,110 --> 00:27:26,578
Okay. Yeah.

663
00:27:26,578 --> 00:27:29,814
It does like majority cultivating.

664
00:27:29,814 --> 00:27:33,351
In house but then also some foraging. Too.

665
00:27:33,551 --> 00:27:37,155
And so yeah, that's probably
even more dangerous foraging for mushrooms

666
00:27:37,155 --> 00:27:37,922
because that

667
00:27:37,922 --> 00:27:41,259
I think I don't know, I'm just guessing
because mushrooms can be really bad

668
00:27:41,626 --> 00:27:43,128
like the wrong ones. Yeah.

669
00:27:43,128 --> 00:27:44,529
You're you're my.

670
00:27:44,529 --> 00:27:48,133
When I lived in Finland,
he would always say that you could.

671
00:27:48,133 --> 00:27:49,734
You could eat, you know.

672
00:27:49,734 --> 00:27:51,736
One mushroom at least once.

673
00:27:51,736 --> 00:27:53,571
You know, every mushroom at least once.

674
00:27:53,571 --> 00:27:55,440
And but that would be like your last time

675
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,443
in the sense of, like,
if you ate it like you would.

676
00:27:58,843 --> 00:27:59,978
You would say this in Finnish.

677
00:27:59,978 --> 00:28:01,880
So I'm probably like butchering.

678
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,150
Yeah.
I don't ask me to say finished either.

679
00:28:05,150 --> 00:28:05,717
But like,

680
00:28:06,885 --> 00:28:08,186
it's funny.

681
00:28:08,186 --> 00:28:08,887
Yeah. You could eat.

682
00:28:08,887 --> 00:28:10,689
You could. Yeah, yeah you could try it,
you know.

683
00:28:10,689 --> 00:28:13,391
Might not work out but you could try it
I suppose. Yeah. Yeah.

684
00:28:13,391 --> 00:28:13,925
It's good.

685
00:28:13,925 --> 00:28:14,959
Yeah. It's good to putting it.

686
00:28:14,959 --> 00:28:18,530
I feel a bit more comfortable
with mushrooms I would take.

687
00:28:18,530 --> 00:28:18,897
Yeah.

688
00:28:18,897 --> 00:28:22,100
Like I harvest like lion's mane and black

689
00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:25,804
trumpet and chanterelles
and chicken of the woods.

690
00:28:25,804 --> 00:28:27,739
Head of the woods. But you're not.

691
00:28:27,739 --> 00:28:29,074
Yeah. I'm not.

692
00:28:29,074 --> 00:28:31,509
Cuckoo. And hedgehogs.

693
00:28:31,509 --> 00:28:34,279
The like the animal with. The.

694
00:28:34,279 --> 00:28:35,213
Mushroom. Hedgehogs.

695
00:28:35,213 --> 00:28:38,483
They are the cutest little mushrooms.
Okay.

696
00:28:38,650 --> 00:28:39,818
Yeah. Okay.

697
00:28:39,818 --> 00:28:42,320
They love to be in, like,
the dark, damp forest.

698
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,723
Like up on top of a mountain somewhere.

699
00:28:44,723 --> 00:28:45,056
And they're.

700
00:28:45,056 --> 00:28:46,725
Just best.

701
00:28:46,725 --> 00:28:48,993
Best mushroom grilled cheese
you will ever have.

702
00:28:48,993 --> 00:28:51,129
I never had it, so it's good, though.

703
00:28:51,129 --> 00:28:53,665
It's a staple part of my diet.

704
00:28:53,665 --> 00:28:54,933
Because the ones you get in there just.

705
00:28:54,933 --> 00:28:56,768
We get standard mushrooms
in the grocery store, right?

706
00:28:56,768 --> 00:28:59,771
Like the regular ones,
like you can't really find like.

707
00:28:59,971 --> 00:29:02,841
Oh, just like, yeah,
but like the White Bell, like.

708
00:29:02,841 --> 00:29:03,441
Yeah. Yeah.

709
00:29:03,441 --> 00:29:05,477
Those have no nutritional.
Yeah. There's nothing.

710
00:29:05,477 --> 00:29:07,712
Value. Yeah. There's nothing
in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

711
00:29:08,980 --> 00:29:11,716
So what mushrooms can we find in the woods
here in Canada.

712
00:29:11,716 --> 00:29:13,051
What I just listed of.

713
00:29:13,051 --> 00:29:16,054
All of those. Really. Wow.

714
00:29:16,254 --> 00:29:19,290
Along with who else.

715
00:29:19,290 --> 00:29:22,127
I mean there's. Horse horseshoe.
But you're not going to eat a horseshoe.

716
00:29:22,127 --> 00:29:24,429
That would be more
so for tinder bundles. Right.

717
00:29:24,429 --> 00:29:27,198
So there's like a mushroom
that you can it's hollow.

718
00:29:27,198 --> 00:29:31,102
And so you can actually put
some tinder in there and start a fire.

719
00:29:31,102 --> 00:29:33,271
And it'll hold that for a while.

720
00:29:33,271 --> 00:29:36,374
So if like you were lost in the forest
and you needed warmth.

721
00:29:36,741 --> 00:29:38,877
Oh really was like, yeah, that's crazy.

722
00:29:38,877 --> 00:29:40,645
Yeah, it's really cool.

723
00:29:40,645 --> 00:29:43,648
There's so much there's so. Much to learn.

724
00:29:43,648 --> 00:29:44,883
Totally, totally.

725
00:29:44,883 --> 00:29:47,385
But those are just listed off lions. Man.

726
00:29:47,385 --> 00:29:49,988
I find around here
I find chicken of the woods.

727
00:29:49,988 --> 00:29:50,622
Pretty.

728
00:29:50,622 --> 00:29:53,525
Cool. Chanties chanterelles.

729
00:29:53,525 --> 00:29:56,261
They're awesome. Like,
could I find stuff in my backyard?

730
00:29:56,261 --> 00:29:58,596
I mean, I see mushrooms in the grass
every once in a while.

731
00:29:58,596 --> 00:30:00,098
I wouldn't, I mean.

732
00:30:00,098 --> 00:30:04,335
Unless they're like puff balls
or, Morales.

733
00:30:04,602 --> 00:30:07,105
I don't know if you've ever.
I haven't encountered a morrell.

734
00:30:07,105 --> 00:30:09,507
And I won't eat one until I meet.

735
00:30:09,507 --> 00:30:11,943
Meet them in the in the wilderness.

736
00:30:11,943 --> 00:30:14,913
But people will buy morels right there
like this. Really?

737
00:30:14,913 --> 00:30:16,648
They're like a delicacy, okay.

738
00:30:16,648 --> 00:30:19,984
And they're going to be coming out
within the next couple of weeks.

739
00:30:19,984 --> 00:30:21,519
This is their time of year.

740
00:30:21,519 --> 00:30:24,656
So they. Like to grow. By tulip poplars.

741
00:30:25,223 --> 00:30:26,724
Okay. Fun fact.

742
00:30:26,724 --> 00:30:29,060
Do you cook mushrooms or can eat the rest.

743
00:30:29,060 --> 00:30:31,396
Don't you. Tomorrow. Okay. Yeah.

744
00:30:31,396 --> 00:30:34,999
But you one like your body
won't know what to do with them raw.

745
00:30:34,999 --> 00:30:39,437
And you don't get all of the amino acids
and nutrition in them

746
00:30:39,437 --> 00:30:40,438
unless they're cooked.

747
00:30:40,438 --> 00:30:43,241
So the heat really helps
bring all of that out.

748
00:30:43,241 --> 00:30:45,977
And then your body's like.
Okay, this is great.

749
00:30:45,977 --> 00:30:48,479
Because there's people that say like,
you could you shouldn't cook anything.

750
00:30:48,479 --> 00:30:50,982
You shoot everything raw
like those raw diet people.

751
00:30:50,982 --> 00:30:51,916
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

752
00:30:51,916 --> 00:30:52,851
I mean, I.

753
00:30:52,851 --> 00:30:54,986
Guess like maybe carrots and like.

754
00:30:54,986 --> 00:30:57,622
I mean, I eat a lot. Green
beans and stuff. Yeah. Yeah.

755
00:30:57,622 --> 00:31:01,793
That's like my, my rage food, like, okay,
you know how some people are like,

756
00:31:01,793 --> 00:31:04,696
I need a smoke. I'm like, I need a carrot.

757
00:31:04,696 --> 00:31:05,230
That's like,

758
00:31:06,965 --> 00:31:09,968
I could eat.

759
00:31:11,703 --> 00:31:14,439
I don't have crunch.

760
00:31:14,439 --> 00:31:16,107
You do the baby carrots or the full on.

761
00:31:16,107 --> 00:31:16,441
No, the.

762
00:31:16,441 --> 00:31:17,342
Full on, full.

763
00:31:17,342 --> 00:31:18,142
On. Yeah.

764
00:31:18,142 --> 00:31:20,345
Yeah. Carrot just like what's good.

765
00:31:20,345 --> 00:31:22,046
Yeah. Yeah. Carrots are good. Yeah.

766
00:31:22,046 --> 00:31:22,380
You time.

767
00:31:22,380 --> 00:31:24,816
I get to the bottom
I'm like soothed. Okay.

768
00:31:24,816 --> 00:31:25,917
All right, all right.

769
00:31:25,917 --> 00:31:28,519
Any any dips or any like the hummus.

770
00:31:28,519 --> 00:31:30,088
Straight up really.

771
00:31:30,088 --> 00:31:31,756
You peel them or you just wash them.

772
00:31:31,756 --> 00:31:33,191
I sometimes they don't even.

773
00:31:33,191 --> 00:31:35,260
Wash down there. Are mountains.

774
00:31:35,260 --> 00:31:36,394
How intense the anger.

775
00:31:36,394 --> 00:31:39,397
Yeah, yeah I gotcha.

776
00:31:39,430 --> 00:31:42,433
That's funny.

777
00:31:44,002 --> 00:31:47,005
Jordan.

778
00:31:48,439 --> 00:31:50,642
Hysterical. Oh.

779
00:31:50,642 --> 00:31:53,611
It's too funny.

780
00:31:53,845 --> 00:31:54,846
Oh, God.

781
00:31:54,846 --> 00:31:56,581
So you grow.

782
00:31:56,581 --> 00:31:59,017
You grow. No, you don't grow mushrooms.
You just grow.

783
00:31:59,017 --> 00:32:00,985
No. But you. I do have logs.

784
00:32:00,985 --> 00:32:02,320
I have Qatari and lions.

785
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,989
Man logs going on right now. Yeah.

786
00:32:04,989 --> 00:32:06,791
And then some people will do the oyster

787
00:32:06,791 --> 00:32:10,461
mushroom blocks, too,
which I'd really love to do at some point.

788
00:32:10,862 --> 00:32:13,698
So do you do any vegetables
or anything like carrots or.

789
00:32:13,698 --> 00:32:14,299
I do.

790
00:32:16,734 --> 00:32:18,603
Because it's an expensive habit.

791
00:32:18,603 --> 00:32:20,772
So yeah, it's easier to grow now.

792
00:32:20,772 --> 00:32:24,542
And beets and lots of Swiss
chard and kale.

793
00:32:24,575 --> 00:32:27,612
Okay. And, I do. Beans. Of potatoes, too.

794
00:32:27,745 --> 00:32:30,615
It's gonna keep you busy. Like, that's,

795
00:32:30,615 --> 00:32:31,316
I guess.

796
00:32:31,316 --> 00:32:33,651
Yeah, yeah, I just do it. I just,
I just start a little,

797
00:32:33,651 --> 00:32:36,387
like, flower garden in the backyard,
like last year.

798
00:32:36,387 --> 00:32:37,455
Just annuals.

799
00:32:37,455 --> 00:32:40,058
That's perfect,
because. I rent a little place.

800
00:32:40,058 --> 00:32:41,259
It's near the. It's new.

801
00:32:41,259 --> 00:32:43,761
I have no idea.
I can't remember anything I planted.

802
00:32:43,761 --> 00:32:45,530
I have. There flowers.

803
00:32:45,530 --> 00:32:47,398
There's a row, there's a rosebush.

804
00:32:47,398 --> 00:32:50,268
Sort of like a creeping rosebush thing.

805
00:32:50,268 --> 00:32:53,771
I don't know, it's called, but it's like
ground cover sort of rose bush thing,

806
00:32:55,073 --> 00:32:56,641
and I it's something I really like.

807
00:32:56,641 --> 00:32:59,544
It's it's purple and it grows really tall.
I put it right in the center.

808
00:32:59,544 --> 00:33:02,513
I don't know what it's called either, but
it grows really tall and it's beautiful.

809
00:33:02,513 --> 00:33:04,983
And then there's, like a butterfly bush

810
00:33:04,983 --> 00:33:06,718
something or other
and then some other things I haven't.

811
00:33:06,718 --> 00:33:07,819
I don't know what anything's called,

812
00:33:07,819 --> 00:33:10,822
but I bought them and they were annuals
because I didn't want to do it every year.

813
00:33:10,888 --> 00:33:12,390
Yeah. You're like, I don't.

814
00:33:12,390 --> 00:33:14,625
This. Is a comment
I don't know, I kind of.

815
00:33:14,625 --> 00:33:16,527
Like I was kind of like,
I'll do it this year.

816
00:33:16,527 --> 00:33:19,197
But I was more excited, like,
what's going to happen next year?

817
00:33:19,197 --> 00:33:22,667
Like after year goes by
and some things are starting to go and

818
00:33:22,667 --> 00:33:25,203
but there's some things that just
there's nothing happening.

819
00:33:25,203 --> 00:33:27,071
So I'm thinking
still might be a little bit early.

820
00:33:27,071 --> 00:33:29,741
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean it's been a cold spring.

821
00:33:29,741 --> 00:33:35,046
So definitely everything is just starting
come up and out and so.

822
00:33:35,246 --> 00:33:35,847
Yeah, yeah.

823
00:33:35,847 --> 00:33:38,983
Kind of see the butterfly bush
will probably come back.

824
00:33:39,017 --> 00:33:39,717
That's starting.

825
00:33:39,717 --> 00:33:42,320
I can see some some new stuff on that.

826
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,655
There's some catnip in there
that my father in law gave me.

827
00:33:44,655 --> 00:33:45,757
Oh, nice.

828
00:33:45,757 --> 00:33:47,191
So hopefully that'll come back.

829
00:33:47,191 --> 00:33:48,960
It doesn't look like anyone else
I don't know.

830
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:50,294
Yeah. So we'll see.

831
00:33:50,294 --> 00:33:51,629
It's it's a cool little spot.

832
00:33:51,629 --> 00:33:54,198
And I made a little bench and
I just kind of hang out there sometimes.

833
00:33:54,198 --> 00:33:55,133
Do you have any cats.

834
00:33:55,133 --> 00:33:57,935
That come by to hang out with the catnip?

835
00:33:57,935 --> 00:33:59,070
Not yet.

836
00:33:59,070 --> 00:34:02,807
No, not yet, but my dog runs
through the garden and knocks things over.

837
00:34:02,807 --> 00:34:04,308
Drives me nuts. But she's cool.

838
00:34:04,308 --> 00:34:06,277
But I do have a new creature.

839
00:34:06,277 --> 00:34:07,245
What do you call those things?

840
00:34:08,279 --> 00:34:09,714
Are they moles or something?

841
00:34:09,714 --> 00:34:10,348
Your moles.

842
00:34:10,348 --> 00:34:11,716
Oh, like the ground.

843
00:34:11,716 --> 00:34:12,483
Ground? Some.

844
00:34:12,483 --> 00:34:15,153
Something's digging. Bugs.
I just noticed that the other day. Yeah.

845
00:34:15,153 --> 00:34:16,988
These trails. Moles.

846
00:34:16,988 --> 00:34:18,222
I love the little moles.

847
00:34:18,222 --> 00:34:19,223
They're so cute.

848
00:34:19,223 --> 00:34:19,590
Yeah, I.

849
00:34:19,590 --> 00:34:21,092
Worked on a farm last year.

850
00:34:21,092 --> 00:34:22,693
Like, it was really hard.

851
00:34:22,693 --> 00:34:23,861
Yeah. Having to.

852
00:34:23,861 --> 00:34:26,864
When you're, like, digging,
you find baby moles.

853
00:34:27,465 --> 00:34:29,700
I mean, I don't. Not ideal for the crops.

854
00:34:29,700 --> 00:34:31,102
I mean, they're not.
There's no vegetables.

855
00:34:31,102 --> 00:34:32,070
You're not going to eat anything.

856
00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:34,405
I don't think they're gonna eat
the roots of the plants and kill them.

857
00:34:34,405 --> 00:34:36,140
No, I think they're just
hanging out down there.

858
00:34:36,140 --> 00:34:37,442
But they kind of, you know.

859
00:34:37,442 --> 00:34:38,076
You get to call it.

860
00:34:38,076 --> 00:34:39,877
Home, I guess. Yeah.

861
00:34:39,877 --> 00:34:42,880
So you supposed to, like.

862
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,183
What was that? Things are fallen for me.

863
00:34:45,183 --> 00:34:45,516
Sorry.

864
00:34:45,516 --> 00:34:47,885
Oh, you know,
if it falls over, there were.

865
00:34:47,885 --> 00:34:50,054
Okay. Right?

866
00:34:50,054 --> 00:34:52,390
It's like a spot on you or
me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

867
00:34:53,591 --> 00:34:54,058
No, I

868
00:34:54,058 --> 00:34:57,562
mean, as long as I
don't really tear things up too much. No.

869
00:34:58,229 --> 00:34:58,696
I mean, I don't.

870
00:34:58,696 --> 00:34:59,864
Care when you can share.

871
00:34:59,864 --> 00:35:02,867
The space. Yeah.

872
00:35:03,201 --> 00:35:03,968
My mom is funny.

873
00:35:03,968 --> 00:35:06,804
She's got this
like she's got some mice in her house.

874
00:35:06,804 --> 00:35:08,639
Like a lot of people do.

875
00:35:08,639 --> 00:35:11,576
They're in the basement and they hang out
and she's catching and she you know

876
00:35:11,576 --> 00:35:13,744
she doesn't like you know they
she gets the traps and stuff.

877
00:35:13,744 --> 00:35:15,980
And she I was talking to the other day,
she's like,

878
00:35:15,980 --> 00:35:17,682
yeah, I don't like killing them anymore.

879
00:35:17,682 --> 00:35:20,585
Like I think
I'm just not going to do anything.

880
00:35:20,585 --> 00:35:22,286
I was like, okay, sweet. Well, I was.

881
00:35:22,286 --> 00:35:24,956
Like, well, let's warm it up.
They'll probably go outside.

882
00:35:24,956 --> 00:35:25,823
Yeah, yeah.

883
00:35:25,823 --> 00:35:27,992
They'll go
on their little summer vacation.

884
00:35:27,992 --> 00:35:29,560
That's like their winter home.

885
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,062
And I think it's important that.

886
00:35:31,062 --> 00:35:33,030
We co exist you know.

887
00:35:33,030 --> 00:35:35,066
So she's fine I mean I have cats.

888
00:35:35,066 --> 00:35:38,870
So they definitely they just eat
the mice in my house.

889
00:35:39,270 --> 00:35:40,538
I have I have a dog.

890
00:35:40,538 --> 00:35:41,939
And I think last year she caught

891
00:35:43,341 --> 00:35:46,043
at least two maybe three chipmunks.

892
00:35:46,043 --> 00:35:47,912
I got inundated. With cherry little.

893
00:35:47,912 --> 00:35:50,348
Chipmunks last year. They were in my car.

894
00:35:50,348 --> 00:35:52,817
Cutest thing everywhere
but my dog would like.

895
00:35:52,817 --> 00:35:55,353
She will not give up
until she gets a chipmunk.

896
00:35:55,353 --> 00:35:56,954
She's on like she never going to get it.

897
00:35:56,954 --> 00:35:59,223
Like I'm hanging out there like an hour.

898
00:35:59,223 --> 00:36:01,192
She's like, she's sun. And.

899
00:36:01,192 --> 00:36:03,761
She got it. I was like,
oh my God, you killed it.

900
00:36:03,761 --> 00:36:04,929
You did it.

901
00:36:04,929 --> 00:36:07,932
I'm so excited.

902
00:36:08,966 --> 00:36:09,200
Yeah.

903
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,169
Yeah, she's a proper hunter.

904
00:36:11,169 --> 00:36:12,303
Yeah. She's good.

905
00:36:12,303 --> 00:36:14,539
Yeah.
Good on her. Yeah. She's super quick.

906
00:36:14,539 --> 00:36:16,140
I've tried to catch chipmunks.

907
00:36:16,140 --> 00:36:18,509
Not not to. Kill,
but just to like. Snuggle.

908
00:36:18,509 --> 00:36:19,644
And they don't let me so.

909
00:36:19,644 --> 00:36:22,480
Oh them that's. You know,
she should be proud.

910
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:23,481
You should be a proud dad.

911
00:36:23,481 --> 00:36:25,816
Yeah. Yeah,
I am proud. Yeah, she's really good.

912
00:36:25,816 --> 00:36:26,350
But I had to.

913
00:36:26,350 --> 00:36:26,918
They were dead.

914
00:36:26,918 --> 00:36:28,352
And I was like,

915
00:36:28,352 --> 00:36:30,521
I don't think she wanted to eat it,
but she kind of like to play with.

916
00:36:30,521 --> 00:36:32,323
I'm like, no, you're not.
I'm just going to throw it away.

917
00:36:32,323 --> 00:36:34,959
It's not going to continue.
That's like, we're doin it.

918
00:36:34,959 --> 00:36:36,294
We're doing it.

919
00:36:36,294 --> 00:36:38,162
So I throw it in the woods
and then she'll she'll get another one.

920
00:36:38,162 --> 00:36:39,931
They hang out in the woodpile or,

921
00:36:41,499 --> 00:36:42,533
Yeah, I was at my

922
00:36:42,533 --> 00:36:45,536
mom's, and then, 
they hang out in my car.

923
00:36:45,570 --> 00:36:46,370
They don't anymore.

924
00:36:46,370 --> 00:36:49,440
I put, like, my mechanic told me to put,
like, dryer sheets, like, get dryer sheets

925
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:54,245
and and and, warm up like a water
dryer sheets, like downy or whatever.

926
00:36:54,679 --> 00:36:54,879
What.

927
00:36:54,879 --> 00:36:57,315
I'm up with the rubber band and like,
put them in your engine compartment.

928
00:36:57,315 --> 00:36:58,983
Oh like near your battery.

929
00:36:58,983 --> 00:37:01,385
Any place that then.
They don't nest in there.

930
00:37:01,385 --> 00:37:03,554
So they won't nest. So anyway
so that's, that's been working.

931
00:37:03,554 --> 00:37:08,960
But I start up my car and right away my
dog dizzy, she's looking around the car.

932
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:10,695
She's like, I'm like,
what are you looking for?

933
00:37:10,695 --> 00:37:11,229
She's there.

934
00:37:11,229 --> 00:37:14,232
She's she smells something. So a chipmunk

935
00:37:14,732 --> 00:37:18,002
jumps off the car from the bottom
of the car and runs across a driveway.

936
00:37:18,002 --> 00:37:19,437
She goes full tilt.

937
00:37:19,437 --> 00:37:21,772
I the chipmunk goes running up a tree.

938
00:37:21,772 --> 00:37:22,506
She's like.

939
00:37:23,774 --> 00:37:24,976
She's barking at the Chipmunks.

940
00:37:24,976 --> 00:37:26,277
Funniest thing.

941
00:37:26,277 --> 00:37:27,345
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah.

942
00:37:27,345 --> 00:37:30,114
She knew it's crazy
that she could smell it through the downy.

943
00:37:30,114 --> 00:37:31,816
Yeah yeah she's crazy.

944
00:37:31,816 --> 00:37:33,184
Yeah she's good, she's good girl.

945
00:37:33,184 --> 00:37:34,885
Excuse me. Coming.

946
00:37:34,885 --> 00:37:37,288
So I feel about my boys. You know my cats.

947
00:37:37,288 --> 00:37:39,423
How many. Two. Okay. Yeah.

948
00:37:39,423 --> 00:37:40,358
What are their names.

949
00:37:40,358 --> 00:37:42,827
Pepino and baby de la Sol.

950
00:37:42,827 --> 00:37:45,830
Okay.

951
00:37:45,863 --> 00:37:46,764
That's. And Sol.

952
00:37:46,764 --> 00:37:48,633
I like to hear that
when you're out in the morning, the.

953
00:37:48,633 --> 00:37:48,933
Are they.

954
00:37:48,933 --> 00:37:50,801
They're outdoor
obviously. Right. You know.

955
00:37:50,801 --> 00:37:52,503
Oh they're indoor. Yeah.

956
00:37:52,503 --> 00:37:54,639
Because my brother
and I got them together.

957
00:37:54,639 --> 00:37:58,776
We've like okay together for a bit
since the pandemic and Yeah.

958
00:37:59,043 --> 00:38:00,911
So he wanted. To keep them indoors.

959
00:38:00,911 --> 00:38:04,081
But I take. Them out
and I'm like playing in the garden.

960
00:38:04,081 --> 00:38:04,382
Yeah.

961
00:38:04,382 --> 00:38:07,451
They can just, like, frolic around,
but I have to squeeze on them.

962
00:38:07,451 --> 00:38:08,586
They're it's too late.

963
00:38:08,586 --> 00:38:11,322
Like,
they're too comfortable if they would not.

964
00:38:11,322 --> 00:38:11,822
Survive.

965
00:38:11,822 --> 00:38:12,757
As well. Days.

966
00:38:12,757 --> 00:38:15,726
No one's 23 pounds, one's 8 pounds.

967
00:38:15,726 --> 00:38:17,461
They eat the same food.

968
00:38:17,461 --> 00:38:18,529
Different metabolism.

969
00:38:18,529 --> 00:38:19,930
Rate, I. Guess. Yeah, yeah.

970
00:38:19,930 --> 00:38:21,832
Okay.

971
00:38:21,832 --> 00:38:24,835
Anyone's fighting for.
My 3 pound one puffs.

972
00:38:24,835 --> 00:38:26,370
You would not make it. No.

973
00:38:26,370 --> 00:38:28,673
The smaller
one catches more mice. Oh, interesting.

974
00:38:28,673 --> 00:38:31,676
I mean, he's got the okay the speed.

975
00:38:31,709 --> 00:38:34,211
Jumping because you'd be eating them
if he catches them it eat them.

976
00:38:34,211 --> 00:38:36,147
So put on the weight.
But no, they do the same thing.

977
00:38:36,147 --> 00:38:40,184
I don't think they know how to eat them
or they just like it's like a toy.

978
00:38:40,184 --> 00:38:43,154
And I'm like, okay. Okay, this is we also.

979
00:38:43,154 --> 00:38:45,656
We're going to put this mouse outside now.

980
00:38:45,656 --> 00:38:49,327
No, my cat, my Wednesday,
I got my 30 years ago and I was in school.

981
00:38:49,327 --> 00:38:51,128
This cat sort of hung out.

982
00:38:51,128 --> 00:38:54,065
Me and my roommate at the time took her
in, called her Wednesday

983
00:38:54,065 --> 00:38:55,666
because we found her on a Wednesday.

984
00:38:55,666 --> 00:38:58,536
Except it's a good day. So.
And I kept her.

985
00:38:58,536 --> 00:39:00,905
He moved on, left, moved out of state.

986
00:39:00,905 --> 00:39:04,408
So I kept Wednesday and and,
he would sometimes she'd wake you

987
00:39:04,408 --> 00:39:08,012
up in the middle of the night,
like chewing on a the bones of a mouse.

988
00:39:08,612 --> 00:39:09,213
She was good.

989
00:39:09,213 --> 00:39:11,382
She's great, Hunter,
but she would eat the whole thing.

990
00:39:11,382 --> 00:39:11,882
Yeah, yeah.

991
00:39:11,882 --> 00:39:13,918
I like that. Squirrels.
But no, when I lived in.

992
00:39:13,918 --> 00:39:18,122
Costa Rica, that was like, I take up
to, like, the crunching under my bed.

993
00:39:18,956 --> 00:39:20,991
Like, oh, good. Yeah.

994
00:39:20,991 --> 00:39:21,859
I'd also wake up.

995
00:39:21,859 --> 00:39:23,861
To, like, tarantulas. On my window.

996
00:39:23,861 --> 00:39:26,330
And I was like, oh, I love them.
Yeah, yeah.

997
00:39:26,330 --> 00:39:28,332
They're not harmful to animals.

998
00:39:28,332 --> 00:39:30,134
No, no, no, I mean.

999
00:39:30,134 --> 00:39:34,238
I wouldn't like, you know, mess with them,
but they're not going to kill you

1000
00:39:34,238 --> 00:39:35,873
or anything. Like that. Yeah.

1001
00:39:35,873 --> 00:39:37,375
All right. The scorpions.

1002
00:39:37,375 --> 00:39:40,077
Spiders. I'm not known to do snakes,
snakes and spiders.

1003
00:39:40,077 --> 00:39:40,611
I'm not a spider.

1004
00:39:40,611 --> 00:39:43,948
I don't, I like,
worked out in Nature Center for like,

1005
00:39:43,948 --> 00:39:47,284
a month in Costa Rica, and and,
It was a, like, a.

1006
00:39:47,284 --> 00:39:48,219
Butterfly garden.

1007
00:39:48,219 --> 00:39:52,156
And we had the scorpions and like, the
tarantulas and all these different ants.

1008
00:39:52,156 --> 00:39:54,925
And so I got to. Like, eat
all of these different bugs.

1009
00:39:54,925 --> 00:39:56,894
But we would, like, play this game.

1010
00:39:56,894 --> 00:39:58,095
You ate. Them. Yeah.

1011
00:39:58,095 --> 00:39:58,829
Okay. Yeah.

1012
00:39:58,829 --> 00:40:01,832
I went for a whole, like,
I was like, until.

1013
00:40:01,832 --> 00:40:03,401
I found out I'm allergic to crickets.

1014
00:40:03,401 --> 00:40:07,338
I was like, yes, I can be sustainable
with my protein source just being bugs

1015
00:40:07,338 --> 00:40:10,608
and like, stepping away from,
like, manufactured meat.

1016
00:40:10,608 --> 00:40:13,310
But then I ate a cricket
and I turned purple and got itchy.

1017
00:40:13,310 --> 00:40:17,481
And so I was like, well,
that dream died fast. But.

1018
00:40:17,515 --> 00:40:18,182
Good to know. Though.

1019
00:40:18,182 --> 00:40:18,916
Yeah. You don't.

1020
00:40:18,916 --> 00:40:21,619
Give me anything with. Crickets. Okay.

1021
00:40:23,287 --> 00:40:24,555
But so I,

1022
00:40:24,555 --> 00:40:27,758
the, the kids and I,
we would take the stick and.

1023
00:40:27,758 --> 00:40:30,494
We'd put it
and we'd put a scorpion on the stick

1024
00:40:30,494 --> 00:40:32,730
and we would just kind of see,
it was like the game of chicken.

1025
00:40:32,730 --> 00:40:34,331
Like who would like the scorpion?

1026
00:40:34,331 --> 00:40:35,800
Kind of like. Go.

1027
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:36,267
On their.

1028
00:40:36,267 --> 00:40:38,602
Face and it would just like,
walk back and forth.

1029
00:40:38,602 --> 00:40:40,304
It was a really.

1030
00:40:40,304 --> 00:40:41,439
Yeah, yeah.

1031
00:40:41,439 --> 00:40:43,107
Interesting group of people. Right.

1032
00:40:43,107 --> 00:40:45,342
Like we were all there. Like,
we love bugs.

1033
00:40:45,342 --> 00:40:46,844
Like we love insects.

1034
00:40:46,844 --> 00:40:50,581
So, you know,
it was getting out of your comfort zone.

1035
00:40:50,581 --> 00:40:52,817
But I guess I don't. Get that giving us
that.

1036
00:40:52,817 --> 00:40:55,820
People feel when they see like a spider.

1037
00:40:55,886 --> 00:40:56,821
Yeah.

1038
00:40:56,821 --> 00:40:57,721
Well, we're in like a.

1039
00:40:57,721 --> 00:40:59,390
Centipede or coach freak.

1040
00:40:59,390 --> 00:41:01,725
Is a different place
because they live outside, basically.

1041
00:41:01,725 --> 00:41:03,060
Yeah, yeah, you have to.

1042
00:41:03,060 --> 00:41:06,397
You have to. Somewhat like, just. Accept.

1043
00:41:06,397 --> 00:41:08,532
That they're going to be everywhere.
Yes they are.

1044
00:41:08,532 --> 00:41:10,434
They are. Everywhere,
you know, everywhere.

1045
00:41:10,434 --> 00:41:12,803
And they're a lot bigger than here.
Definitely.

1046
00:41:12,803 --> 00:41:14,371
Yeah, yeah.

1047
00:41:14,371 --> 00:41:17,374
Oh. So did you see the leaf cutter ants
when you were there?

1048
00:41:17,641 --> 00:41:18,509
I don't think. So.

1049
00:41:18,509 --> 00:41:20,344
So they're like the they go.

1050
00:41:20,344 --> 00:41:24,114
And they take the leaves and they,
they bring them down to the, to the hive

1051
00:41:24,114 --> 00:41:28,719
and they have like warriors on
like workers and like guards.

1052
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,956
And so there's all these different roles
and they look a little bit different.

1053
00:41:31,956 --> 00:41:33,424
But the ones that are kind of

1054
00:41:33,424 --> 00:41:37,127
like the warriors protecting
the ones that are collecting the leaves,

1055
00:41:37,361 --> 00:41:40,664
they have these giant mouths
like these pinchers.

1056
00:41:40,931 --> 00:41:44,435
And so the indigenous people
would use that to like, like

1057
00:41:44,435 --> 00:41:49,240
when you get need stitches, you would,
they would use the, the ants to.

1058
00:41:49,707 --> 00:41:52,710
To close up
the really wounds. That's cool.

1059
00:41:52,843 --> 00:41:54,578
But like burn it. Close so that.

1060
00:41:54,578 --> 00:41:55,779
Yeah. Yeah.

1061
00:41:55,779 --> 00:41:58,382
But they. Also are really delicious. Okay.

1062
00:41:58,382 --> 00:41:59,216
Yeah. To eat.

1063
00:42:01,852 --> 00:42:02,553
Do eat.

1064
00:42:02,553 --> 00:42:03,721
How do you eat. How do you eat them.

1065
00:42:03,721 --> 00:42:04,722
Do you like kill them.

1066
00:42:04,722 --> 00:42:05,823
Chocolate.

1067
00:42:05,823 --> 00:42:07,625
Do you kill them first or you just. Yeah.

1068
00:42:07,625 --> 00:42:08,492
Okay. Yeah.

1069
00:42:08,492 --> 00:42:09,426
I don't like bugs.

1070
00:42:09,426 --> 00:42:11,962
I've eaten alive. Or termites.

1071
00:42:11,962 --> 00:42:14,965
Okay.

1072
00:42:16,734 --> 00:42:17,968
It tastes like black pepper.

1073
00:42:17,968 --> 00:42:20,604
Okay, but we eat like how big?

1074
00:42:20,604 --> 00:42:21,505
How big is a termite?

1075
00:42:21,505 --> 00:42:22,206
They're tiny.

1076
00:42:22,206 --> 00:42:24,542
Okay. Yeah, yeah,
they're like the size of black pepper.

1077
00:42:24,542 --> 00:42:27,545
You just, like, go over the line
where they're walking and then.

1078
00:42:28,012 --> 00:42:31,015
And you just like ants eat them.

1079
00:42:31,081 --> 00:42:32,917
Okay. There's no like do they.

1080
00:42:32,917 --> 00:42:33,951
You just swarm right away.

1081
00:42:33,951 --> 00:42:34,184
Yeah.

1082
00:42:34,184 --> 00:42:37,521
Yeah I'm just it's like now seasoning.

1083
00:42:37,855 --> 00:42:39,757
Is that like nutritional.
That is like protein.

1084
00:42:39,757 --> 00:42:41,659
And they're like probably okay.

1085
00:42:41,659 --> 00:42:42,693
Yeah okay.

1086
00:42:42,693 --> 00:42:45,062
Was more
so just like oh I want to try this.

1087
00:42:45,062 --> 00:42:47,932
I don't do too much research into it
afterwards.

1088
00:42:47,932 --> 00:42:49,967
Are there bugs you can eat.

1089
00:42:49,967 --> 00:42:50,768
Oh I mean for you.

1090
00:42:50,768 --> 00:42:53,771
You can eat crickets. Yeah I'm sure. Like.

1091
00:42:53,837 --> 00:42:55,172
Yeah I mean.

1092
00:42:55,172 --> 00:42:57,141
But there's lots that.

1093
00:42:57,141 --> 00:42:59,043
You can.
I think crickets are the most common.

1094
00:42:59,043 --> 00:43:01,845
But then from what I understand,
if you go to Asia, right,

1095
00:43:01,845 --> 00:43:06,450
there's like there's these markets
where right are farmers market,

1096
00:43:06,450 --> 00:43:11,722
you find produce and cheese and,
and flowers and you go to some markets

1097
00:43:11,722 --> 00:43:15,359
and you find like bugs and scorpions
and fish and.

1098
00:43:15,359 --> 00:43:15,859
It's.

1099
00:43:15,859 --> 00:43:17,328
A different world.

1100
00:43:17,328 --> 00:43:18,062
Yeah.

1101
00:43:18,062 --> 00:43:19,597
Totally different world. Right?

1102
00:43:19,597 --> 00:43:21,765
I mean, have you traveled? I've.

1103
00:43:21,765 --> 00:43:23,267
You seem like someone that's.

1104
00:43:24,602 --> 00:43:25,836
Exploring different.

1105
00:43:25,836 --> 00:43:26,170
Cultures.

1106
00:43:26,170 --> 00:43:30,341
Or like, I'm getting there, but, yeah,
Costa Rica was probably the most different

1107
00:43:31,508 --> 00:43:32,943
place I've been.

1108
00:43:32,943 --> 00:43:34,878
Okay, like.

1109
00:43:34,878 --> 00:43:36,213
Than where we live here.

1110
00:43:36,213 --> 00:43:39,883
Like, I went to a little island called
back way, way down in the West Indies.

1111
00:43:41,485 --> 00:43:43,053
That's a little bit more touristy,
you know.

1112
00:43:43,053 --> 00:43:45,990
So it's not, but it's and it's not like
Costa Rica, but it is. It's an island.

1113
00:43:45,990 --> 00:43:48,425
It's a Caribbean type
island. And climate's beautiful.

1114
00:43:48,425 --> 00:43:52,229
And we'd walk on the beach
and there's a guy selling coconut water.

1115
00:43:52,229 --> 00:43:53,998
And so we get our colors.

1116
00:43:53,998 --> 00:43:56,033
Best thing ever. Like fresh coconut water.

1117
00:43:56,033 --> 00:43:57,835
That's the best.

1118
00:43:57,835 --> 00:43:59,570
But there was a lot of,
like, hotels and stuff.

1119
00:43:59,570 --> 00:44:01,305
So there wasn't a lot of like a spa.

1120
00:44:01,305 --> 00:44:03,240
Costa Rica, even on the beach, you know?

1121
00:44:03,240 --> 00:44:05,275
I mean, I never went into the jungle.
That's something I still want to do.

1122
00:44:05,275 --> 00:44:08,278
I want to go back and, like,
explore the interior of the country.

1123
00:44:08,312 --> 00:44:08,846
Yeah.

1124
00:44:08,846 --> 00:44:10,914
If you, if next year I've for.

1125
00:44:10,914 --> 00:44:13,350
The past three years
I've gone on this trip,

1126
00:44:13,350 --> 00:44:15,452
this trip called Eco Tours for cures.

1127
00:44:15,452 --> 00:44:17,454
And it's with a group of nature paths.

1128
00:44:17,454 --> 00:44:20,124
And we go and camp out with the Bushmen
and Jamaica.

1129
00:44:20,124 --> 00:44:20,491
Okay.

1130
00:44:20,491 --> 00:44:22,926
And that's just for, like, six days.

1131
00:44:22,926 --> 00:44:24,862
Yeah. Five nights, six days.

1132
00:44:24,862 --> 00:44:26,163
And it's really. It's great.

1133
00:44:26,163 --> 00:44:30,601
You're just in the elements, like,
you're really, like, living off grid.

1134
00:44:30,601 --> 00:44:34,204
And you get to know the medicine around
you, the food around you, and you know.

1135
00:44:34,204 --> 00:44:35,739
You, you live.

1136
00:44:35,739 --> 00:44:38,208
Like a proper Rasta, like a true Rasta.

1137
00:44:38,208 --> 00:44:39,777
That's wild. Yeah. That's so.

1138
00:44:39,777 --> 00:44:41,779
Yeah. I haven't gone camping in a while.

1139
00:44:41,779 --> 00:44:45,149
I almost went and, last year
I went to a off grid cabin in Maine.

1140
00:44:45,282 --> 00:44:46,283
Oh, nice.

1141
00:44:46,283 --> 00:44:48,485
Which was. Which is cool.
It was. It was amazing.

1142
00:44:48,485 --> 00:44:49,053
There was no lake.

1143
00:44:49,053 --> 00:44:51,722
They had solar
and there was no running water.

1144
00:44:51,722 --> 00:44:55,092
They had like, a little jug of water
for drinking water with a pump,

1145
00:44:55,092 --> 00:44:56,794
but no, like electricity
or anything like that.

1146
00:44:56,794 --> 00:44:58,429
And they had a
wood stove and a fire pit and

1147
00:44:59,396 --> 00:44:59,930
it was warm.

1148
00:44:59,930 --> 00:45:01,598
I didn't need the wood stove,
but you just hang out

1149
00:45:01,598 --> 00:45:02,800
and it's in the like in the woods.

1150
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:04,968
There's nobody around.
Is little stream in the back.

1151
00:45:04,968 --> 00:45:07,971
So me and the dog would just
she go explore and I'd hang out.

1152
00:45:07,971 --> 00:45:10,808
And that's nourishing. Yeah, it was great.
Yeah, yeah.

1153
00:45:10,808 --> 00:45:15,012
The only drawback was, 
so since there's no running water,

1154
00:45:15,012 --> 00:45:18,015
there's no bathroom, there's no shower,
but I didn't really care.

1155
00:45:18,449 --> 00:45:20,484
And there was no outhouse.

1156
00:45:20,484 --> 00:45:22,386
There was a there was a porta potty.

1157
00:45:22,386 --> 00:45:24,354
So I'm like,
I want to write them a letter.

1158
00:45:24,354 --> 00:45:25,055
Like, you know what?

1159
00:45:25,055 --> 00:45:28,225
I love your place, but you're like,
you should build like a proper,

1160
00:45:28,225 --> 00:45:32,129
like, outhouse thing and and not do the,
like, full on green.

1161
00:45:32,930 --> 00:45:33,931
Yeah. For the potty.

1162
00:45:33,931 --> 00:45:36,633
It just sort of takes away
from. The, the whole. Experience.

1163
00:45:36,633 --> 00:45:38,702
But other than that,
I mean, it was amazing. It was quiet.

1164
00:45:38,702 --> 00:45:40,170
It was just. Yeah, you just hang out.

1165
00:45:40,170 --> 00:45:41,839
There's nobody you can't see anybody.

1166
00:45:41,839 --> 00:45:43,474
Yeah. Just with yourself.

1167
00:45:43,474 --> 00:45:45,476
Yeah. It was nice. And then. Yeah.
So there's.

1168
00:45:45,476 --> 00:45:48,445
Yeah no phone I mean I had cell service
but yeah I tried to put that away.

1169
00:45:48,445 --> 00:45:50,814
And yeah to turn that. Off and just like.

1170
00:45:50,814 --> 00:45:53,517
Fully be where you are.

1171
00:45:53,517 --> 00:45:55,419
Yeah. Yeah. It's like such a gift.

1172
00:45:55,419 --> 00:45:58,789
I feel like everyone should do that
at least once a year.

1173
00:45:58,922 --> 00:45:59,923
Yeah, yeah.

1174
00:46:00,991 --> 00:46:01,425
Yeah.

1175
00:46:01,425 --> 00:46:01,759
Right.

1176
00:46:01,759 --> 00:46:05,796
Doesn't need to be for a super long time,
but just enough to like

1177
00:46:06,063 --> 00:46:08,966
there's so much stimulus all the time.

1178
00:46:08,966 --> 00:46:10,100
Right. So it's like

1179
00:46:10,100 --> 00:46:13,871
sometimes we need to just step away
because that's not going to stop.

1180
00:46:14,071 --> 00:46:15,572
Yeah. Right. Like this.

1181
00:46:15,572 --> 00:46:18,308
This is always going to keep going.
This reality is so.

1182
00:46:18,308 --> 00:46:19,443
You know I forget who said it.

1183
00:46:19,443 --> 00:46:21,845
I was scrolling
through talking about phones,

1184
00:46:21,845 --> 00:46:24,448
scrolling through,
looking at you know, just passing time.

1185
00:46:24,448 --> 00:46:26,183
And somebody said, like,
there's a problem.

1186
00:46:26,183 --> 00:46:28,952
Like, kids aren't bored anymore, right?

1187
00:46:28,952 --> 00:46:31,421
There's
because they always have something to do.

1188
00:46:31,421 --> 00:46:34,691
Like, I remember as a kid, like,
you just there's, you know, there's like,

1189
00:46:34,691 --> 00:46:35,492
nothing on TV.

1190
00:46:35,492 --> 00:46:39,062
And you just you just sit there or
you go find a friend or you hang out. But.

1191
00:46:40,531 --> 00:46:41,331
So it's kind of nice.

1192
00:46:41,331 --> 00:46:44,668
It's important even for adults
to just just to sit and be bored

1193
00:46:44,668 --> 00:46:47,738
and like, just look out the window
and just not do anything.

1194
00:46:47,871 --> 00:46:49,606
Yeah, don't watch TV, don't read.

1195
00:46:49,606 --> 00:46:52,643
Don't you know, I mean,
if you fall asleep, that's one thing.

1196
00:46:52,643 --> 00:46:54,545
But don't try to,
you know, just just lie there.

1197
00:46:54,545 --> 00:46:55,646
So I, I do that.

1198
00:46:55,646 --> 00:46:58,649
It's nice if I'm feeling sort of like
I just need to disconnect.

1199
00:46:58,649 --> 00:46:59,650
There's just.

1200
00:46:59,650 --> 00:47:02,352
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I feel really grateful.

1201
00:47:02,352 --> 00:47:03,687
I feel like the people that.

1202
00:47:03,687 --> 00:47:07,524
I am surrounded by, like my chosen family,
we do.

1203
00:47:07,524 --> 00:47:09,993
Just get. Together
and we just sit by the water.

1204
00:47:09,993 --> 00:47:13,063
Like last night,
a group of us built a fire on the beach.

1205
00:47:13,130 --> 00:47:16,800
We just watched the water
and one of our friends guided us through,

1206
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:18,802
like, a meditation. Yeah.

1207
00:47:18,802 --> 00:47:22,472
And we just sat there and it was like
conscious conversations, you know, like

1208
00:47:22,472 --> 00:47:26,577
we're not just speaking to just speak,
but really being intentional.

1209
00:47:26,643 --> 00:47:31,782
And there, there can just be that,
like filling that empty space

1210
00:47:31,982 --> 00:47:34,785
where it's actually it's really nice
when you can just kind of

1211
00:47:34,785 --> 00:47:37,788
like, it's not a bad thing to feel bored.

1212
00:47:37,955 --> 00:47:38,789
You know.

1213
00:47:38,789 --> 00:47:41,792
It's not a bad thing
to feel uncomfortable.

1214
00:47:42,192 --> 00:47:43,360
It's like just.

1215
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:45,362
Welcomed that because that's part.

1216
00:47:45,362 --> 00:47:47,664
Of the experience, you know?

1217
00:47:47,664 --> 00:47:50,567
So it's like rather than trying to take it
away.

1218
00:47:50,567 --> 00:47:52,769
Yeah. It's nice to be bored.

1219
00:47:52,769 --> 00:47:56,106
I mean especially if you think about
like what could I be doing.

1220
00:47:56,106 --> 00:47:57,407
And there's nothing like okay.

1221
00:47:57,407 --> 00:48:01,278
Well no I don't really there's nothing
pending that I'm taken care of.

1222
00:48:01,278 --> 00:48:03,046
So I'm just going
to sit here for a little bit.

1223
00:48:04,081 --> 00:48:06,283
I'm going to just like not do anything.

1224
00:48:06,283 --> 00:48:09,286
Yeah. In my own. Yeah. Yeah.

1225
00:48:09,453 --> 00:48:10,153
That's like.

1226
00:48:10,153 --> 00:48:10,888
Oh, God, I can't wait.

1227
00:48:10,888 --> 00:48:13,423
When, like, finally, like,
these past couple of days been good.

1228
00:48:13,423 --> 00:48:15,492
Yeah. The past Monday. Felt.

1229
00:48:15,492 --> 00:48:16,560
Like the first proper.

1230
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:18,128
Day of spring.

1231
00:48:18,128 --> 00:48:21,031
And I just was like.

1232
00:48:21,031 --> 00:48:22,132
Yeah. So good.

1233
00:48:22,132 --> 00:48:25,135
So I'll just soak it up. Potter mode.

1234
00:48:25,202 --> 00:48:26,136
Just like I love it.

1235
00:48:26,136 --> 00:48:28,805
Yeah. Like before you got here
this morning, I was just putting around.

1236
00:48:28,805 --> 00:48:29,673
I was getting some work done.

1237
00:48:29,673 --> 00:48:32,542
I set this place up and I'm like,
I'm just.

1238
00:48:32,542 --> 00:48:33,410
I looked out window. My.

1239
00:48:33,410 --> 00:48:34,411
It's like sunny.

1240
00:48:34,411 --> 00:48:35,879
So I just,
I was standing on the parking lot

1241
00:48:35,879 --> 00:48:37,681
and just soaking up some sun, just like,

1242
00:48:37,681 --> 00:48:40,651
you know, trying to take some breaths
and watch people drive by

1243
00:48:40,651 --> 00:48:43,787
and hang out and find it's
nice and go out there in a t shirt and.

1244
00:48:44,187 --> 00:48:44,655
Yeah.

1245
00:48:44,655 --> 00:48:47,991
Just sort of,
you know, get some sun over, isn't it?

1246
00:48:47,991 --> 00:48:51,628
It's totally nice. No, it's a good shift.

1247
00:48:51,695 --> 00:48:53,063
It's a needed. Yeah.

1248
00:48:53,063 --> 00:48:54,531
Absolutely. It's winter's been long.

1249
00:48:54,531 --> 00:48:55,766
So has. Been.

1250
00:48:55,766 --> 00:48:57,801
Which I'm grateful for the winter.

1251
00:48:57,801 --> 00:48:58,368
And then.

1252
00:48:58,368 --> 00:49:01,171
Yeah, to a certain extent I'm like,
okay. Yeah.

1253
00:49:01,171 --> 00:49:02,339
Thank you.

1254
00:49:02,339 --> 00:49:06,944
But the climate down in Central America,
that part is so suits me so well.

1255
00:49:07,144 --> 00:49:09,346
Oh yeah. It's 80.

1256
00:49:09,346 --> 00:49:10,314
Well now it's like 90.

1257
00:49:10,314 --> 00:49:10,681
But when I'm,

1258
00:49:10,681 --> 00:49:14,685
when I go down in the winter, our winter
it's like 80 degrees 85 degrees.

1259
00:49:14,685 --> 00:49:15,285
It's sun.

1260
00:49:15,285 --> 00:49:18,221
The humidity is like people ask
if it's like is it humid?

1261
00:49:18,221 --> 00:49:19,556
I'm like, I don't know. Not for me.

1262
00:49:19,556 --> 00:49:21,258
It's like for me the humidity is perfect.

1263
00:49:21,258 --> 00:49:24,061
It's a different kind of humidity
than Connecticut, right?

1264
00:49:24,061 --> 00:49:26,763
Like New England,
humidity is like I can't breathe.

1265
00:49:26,763 --> 00:49:30,434
Humidity where Costa Rica is just like,
oh, your pores are going to be open.

1266
00:49:30,567 --> 00:49:32,869
You're going to be glowing like.

1267
00:49:32,869 --> 00:49:33,470
Yeah, just.

1268
00:49:33,470 --> 00:49:36,039
Drink some, like coconut water
and you're like, you're.

1269
00:49:36,039 --> 00:49:36,573
Good to go.

1270
00:49:36,573 --> 00:49:39,176
Yeah, yeah. It's like. Reviving. Yeah.

1271
00:49:39,176 --> 00:49:41,311
But you there it is.

1272
00:49:41,311 --> 00:49:43,313
It's nice. I'd find
I'd always find shelter. Right.

1273
00:49:43,313 --> 00:49:46,783
So I find like you walk down
the beach is always like trees and bushes

1274
00:49:46,783 --> 00:49:48,986
and whatever.
So you can go in and find shelter.

1275
00:49:48,986 --> 00:49:51,254
So I said, you know, in a
you'd still be under there.

1276
00:49:51,254 --> 00:49:54,992
And I'm like, I could feel my skin, like,
still hot, like you're

1277
00:49:54,992 --> 00:49:57,094
sitting in the sun,
but there's no sun on me.

1278
00:49:57,094 --> 00:49:58,362
So hot. But it's so soothing.

1279
00:49:59,329 --> 00:49:59,629
Yeah.

1280
00:49:59,629 --> 00:50:01,531
No, that's I like that climate. Yeah.

1281
00:50:01,531 --> 00:50:03,300
It's so good.

1282
00:50:03,300 --> 00:50:04,501
Where I was, I was like.

1283
00:50:04,501 --> 00:50:06,103
Up in the mountains more.

1284
00:50:06,103 --> 00:50:08,972
And so it. Was like 50, 50,
like it would be.

1285
00:50:08,972 --> 00:50:12,409
Raining most of the times,
like the rainforest proper.

1286
00:50:12,409 --> 00:50:14,378
And so, but I love it.

1287
00:50:14,378 --> 00:50:19,516
I love warm rain, like, out on a hike
and it's like you're in the beating sun,

1288
00:50:19,516 --> 00:50:20,283
and then all of a sudden

1289
00:50:20,283 --> 00:50:24,121
this, like, nonstop downpour comes
and it's like you get to just,

1290
00:50:24,121 --> 00:50:28,091
like, run through and you're like, yeah,
it's like you just went swimming like.

1291
00:50:28,091 --> 00:50:29,359
Yeah. Exactly.

1292
00:50:29,359 --> 00:50:31,862
Yeah. It's that warm rain
and then it stops and it's still warm.

1293
00:50:31,862 --> 00:50:34,197
Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah. It's not that cold.

1294
00:50:34,197 --> 00:50:36,033
Rain. Cold rain. It's not good. Yeah.

1295
00:50:37,134 --> 00:50:40,670
Yeah I mean I see people cold water,
I see people on the beach like in

1296
00:50:40,670 --> 00:50:44,641
the winter like going swimming and,
and I'm like okay, maybe I could do that

1297
00:50:45,275 --> 00:50:48,278
like go in cold water like that,
but then I need to get out

1298
00:50:48,278 --> 00:50:50,347
and it needs to be 85 degrees
when I get out of the water.

1299
00:50:50,347 --> 00:50:52,949
Yeah, I can't get out of the water
and still be 35 degrees.

1300
00:50:52,949 --> 00:50:55,752
Know what my
what my friends and I did for New Years?

1301
00:50:55,752 --> 00:50:56,653
We did this last year.

1302
00:50:56,653 --> 00:50:57,654
We did this this year.

1303
00:50:57,654 --> 00:50:59,790
We built a sauna on the beach.

1304
00:50:59,790 --> 00:51:02,893
And so we got it up to like. 95.
This year.

1305
00:51:02,893 --> 00:51:08,065
Last year we got it up at like to like 115
because we had the fire going all night.

1306
00:51:08,065 --> 00:51:11,802
So we had these hot stones
and we did like a tent like this.

1307
00:51:11,802 --> 00:51:12,335
Like,

1308
00:51:12,335 --> 00:51:16,339
I don't know I guess like fire resistant
plastic tent that my friend Marcelo got.

1309
00:51:16,339 --> 00:51:21,478
And so we have this going and then
we went in the water and I was in there.

1310
00:51:21,478 --> 00:51:23,747
For two minutes and then got.

1311
00:51:23,747 --> 00:51:25,882
My friend who was holding my hand.

1312
00:51:25,882 --> 00:51:27,417
She's like a birth doula.

1313
00:51:27,417 --> 00:51:27,751
And so.

1314
00:51:27,751 --> 00:51:28,652
She was like guiding me.

1315
00:51:28,652 --> 00:51:32,055
Through like my breath because I was like,
I can't do this.

1316
00:51:32,055 --> 00:51:33,924
It's like it's cold. It's shocking.

1317
00:51:33,924 --> 00:51:35,792
Yeah. Like, it really feels like.

1318
00:51:35,792 --> 00:51:37,461
The pins and needles. Yeah.

1319
00:51:37,461 --> 00:51:40,063
They're your. Body.
I don't know how people do that every day.

1320
00:51:40,063 --> 00:51:42,332
It like there's people that just wake up
and they're like.

1321
00:51:42,332 --> 00:51:44,868
And they go, they're plunging or whatever.
And I'm like.

1322
00:51:44,868 --> 00:51:46,303
It's supposed to be very good for. You.
But yeah.

1323
00:51:46,303 --> 00:51:47,671
I'm not into it.

1324
00:51:47,671 --> 00:51:49,739
Yeah. I feel like we do what you could
do. Coach the.

1325
00:51:49,739 --> 00:51:51,675
Discomfort I'm like I'm not sitting with.

1326
00:51:51,675 --> 00:51:54,211
That discomfort okay I'll do it.

1327
00:51:54,211 --> 00:51:56,646
Like will
you do cold shower. I'm like. No.

1328
00:51:59,950 --> 00:52:01,685
No I'm not doing that either.

1329
00:52:01,685 --> 00:52:04,121
I'm really I'm okay.

1330
00:52:04,121 --> 00:52:04,921
Me all right.

1331
00:52:04,921 --> 00:52:06,790
I'll find health and other ways.

1332
00:52:06,790 --> 00:52:07,991
Thank you very much.

1333
00:52:07,991 --> 00:52:10,861
I'll drink my mushroom coffee.

1334
00:52:10,861 --> 00:52:11,761
Yeah.

1335
00:52:11,761 --> 00:52:12,963
And sit in the sun.

1336
00:52:12,963 --> 00:52:15,799
Yeah, I like my
I like I. Like my hot showers. We do?

1337
00:52:15,799 --> 00:52:17,100
Yes. Yeah. They're very nice.

1338
00:52:17,100 --> 00:52:19,903
I'm like, I'll do it for like,
literally like half a second.

1339
00:52:19,903 --> 00:52:20,704
And I'm like, good job.

1340
00:52:20,704 --> 00:52:23,707
Yeah that's a good job.

1341
00:52:25,342 --> 00:52:26,910
Yeah yeah yeah.

1342
00:52:26,910 --> 00:52:28,845
In the morning. Like,

1343
00:52:28,845 --> 00:52:31,114
you know, getting ready
like splashing water on my face, I'm like,

1344
00:52:31,114 --> 00:52:33,617
oh I'm going to wait for that water
to warm up a little bit

1345
00:52:33,617 --> 00:52:36,153
before I, before I splash
water on my face, you know,

1346
00:52:36,153 --> 00:52:39,456
just like sometimes it's a little, it's
nice cold, but.

1347
00:52:39,456 --> 00:52:40,257
Yeah, the cold shower.

1348
00:52:40,257 --> 00:52:41,191
Whole cold shower thing.

1349
00:52:41,191 --> 00:52:43,894
Yeah. I don't, I mean I did, I have yeah.

1350
00:52:43,894 --> 00:52:45,362
But I just know. Yeah.

1351
00:52:45,362 --> 00:52:48,031
Like I'll,
yeah I'll be healthy in other ways.

1352
00:52:48,031 --> 00:52:49,166
Yeah I'll do that.

1353
00:52:49,166 --> 00:52:50,834
I'll drink my salad. You do.

1354
00:52:50,834 --> 00:52:52,969
Yeah. Celery juice and. Yeah.

1355
00:52:52,969 --> 00:52:54,237
I do do mushroom supplements

1356
00:52:54,237 --> 00:52:57,707
I mean do those,
I do turkey tail and reishi alcohol.

1357
00:52:57,707 --> 00:52:58,542
Yeah. Yeah.

1358
00:52:58,542 --> 00:53:01,011
When I first started doing them
because like a detox thing.

1359
00:53:01,011 --> 00:53:01,845
Right.

1360
00:53:01,845 --> 00:53:03,647
Yeah. Great for your immune system.

1361
00:53:03,647 --> 00:53:04,080
Yeah.

1362
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:07,350
So I first started and I'm like,
my guys stink.

1363
00:53:07,350 --> 00:53:08,552
Like, I smell so bad.

1364
00:53:08,552 --> 00:53:11,655
I think I was just, like, pushing
all the toxins out, like it was awful.

1365
00:53:11,655 --> 00:53:12,989
I was like, oh, my God.

1366
00:53:15,091 --> 00:53:16,092
But then it evens out.

1367
00:53:16,092 --> 00:53:18,662
And you got to do that kind of stuff
when we're. In quarantine.

1368
00:53:18,662 --> 00:53:20,931
Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Yeah. No.
Like she's just.

1369
00:53:20,931 --> 00:53:22,799
You know,
I couldn't like, control, man. Yeah.

1370
00:53:22,799 --> 00:53:24,968
Go to man.
Go in the. Woods for, like two weeks.

1371
00:53:24,968 --> 00:53:25,335
Yeah.

1372
00:53:25,335 --> 00:53:27,270
I think it lasted like two weeks.

1373
00:53:27,270 --> 00:53:28,772
It was funny,

1374
00:53:28,772 --> 00:53:29,306
but it's good.

1375
00:53:29,306 --> 00:53:30,941
And I start drinking that, like,
rye stuff.

1376
00:53:30,941 --> 00:53:33,810
Not every day, but it's kind of nice,
like late in the afternoon

1377
00:53:33,810 --> 00:53:36,079
if I want a little coffee,
but I don't want to drink like coffee,

1378
00:53:36,079 --> 00:53:38,515
like, yeah, late in the afternoon,
I'll have some of that.

1379
00:53:38,515 --> 00:53:41,351
And it's, it's
kind of nice because it's warm.

1380
00:53:41,351 --> 00:53:42,852
I tell people like, how does it taste?

1381
00:53:42,852 --> 00:53:46,723
I'm like, well, it doesn't taste good,
but it doesn't taste bad either.

1382
00:53:47,190 --> 00:53:48,191
Like, it's just weird.

1383
00:53:48,191 --> 00:53:51,695
Like,
I sort of like to describe it like like

1384
00:53:52,195 --> 00:53:54,931
like Swiss Miss,
you know, Swiss Miss Chocolate like that.

1385
00:53:54,931 --> 00:53:57,267
It's like that, but just not chocolaty.

1386
00:54:01,238 --> 00:54:04,241
I describe it and then I'm like, I'm good.

1387
00:54:04,374 --> 00:54:04,975
Yeah.

1388
00:54:04,975 --> 00:54:07,310
That's what we were like. Like,
no thanks, I'm good. I don't want it.

1389
00:54:07,310 --> 00:54:08,211
I'll take a cold shower.

1390
00:54:08,211 --> 00:54:10,380
Yeah, yeah, I'll be outside.

1391
00:54:10,380 --> 00:54:12,282
But I don't know how to describe
the flavor of it.

1392
00:54:12,282 --> 00:54:15,352
It's weird, but I mean, it's
like it's not bad, but it's nice.

1393
00:54:15,352 --> 00:54:17,520
It's kind of warm
and it's sort of very neutral flavor.

1394
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:20,824
And I like it. On ice.

1395
00:54:20,991 --> 00:54:22,592
Like with cold. Milk and ice.

1396
00:54:22,592 --> 00:54:23,526
And then I'll shake that up,

1397
00:54:23,526 --> 00:54:26,997
but like a little bit of maple sirup
or a little bit of like vanilla extract.

1398
00:54:26,997 --> 00:54:29,666
Yeah. Like. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah.

1399
00:54:29,666 --> 00:54:32,302
Like maybe like I do stuff
add some flavor that.

1400
00:54:32,302 --> 00:54:35,272
Yeah. Yeah. Maple, maple maple sirup.

1401
00:54:35,272 --> 00:54:36,273
That might be good.

1402
00:54:36,273 --> 00:54:39,042
Yeah. I'm a fan. Yeah. So be good.

1403
00:54:39,042 --> 00:54:42,212
There's a place, there's a convent.

1404
00:54:42,345 --> 00:54:45,782
And is it Guilford, North Branford,
somewhere around here.

1405
00:54:46,182 --> 00:54:47,017
They do what?

1406
00:54:47,017 --> 00:54:50,287
They they have trees,
so they get their own maple sirup,

1407
00:54:50,287 --> 00:54:53,456
and they send it off somewhere local to,
you know, boil it down, whatever.

1408
00:54:53,456 --> 00:54:55,492
And then they sell it in a little gift
shop.

1409
00:54:55,492 --> 00:54:56,626
Oh, sweet.

1410
00:54:56,626 --> 00:54:58,595
Yeah. I wonder I have to get you that,
I can't remember.

1411
00:54:58,595 --> 00:55:01,064
It's either I think it's Guilford,
maybe North Guilford.

1412
00:55:01,064 --> 00:55:02,699
This convent just.

1413
00:55:02,699 --> 00:55:05,702
Taking over by Holy of. Right.

1414
00:55:05,769 --> 00:55:07,704
Where the water. Supply is like.

1415
00:55:07,704 --> 00:55:09,906
That. Branford, East Haven line.

1416
00:55:09,906 --> 00:55:15,545
And they had just a bunch of those lines
going off the maple trees.

1417
00:55:15,545 --> 00:55:17,147
They were a topic, not something that I.

1418
00:55:17,147 --> 00:55:19,983
Really want to. Learn more.

1419
00:55:19,983 --> 00:55:21,117
I want to learn how to do.

1420
00:55:21,117 --> 00:55:21,451
Yeah.

1421
00:55:21,451 --> 00:55:24,120
On Friday nights, I've been milking goats.

1422
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:28,725
And so I'll go and do that tonight
over at Olympia Farms in Guilford.

1423
00:55:28,725 --> 00:55:31,261
And yeah. So like, I'm like.

1424
00:55:31,261 --> 00:55:33,630
I was just talking to somebody
about goat milk.

1425
00:55:33,630 --> 00:55:36,299
It's really, it's it's a lot easier.

1426
00:55:36,299 --> 00:55:38,401
Okay. Digestive system. Okay.

1427
00:55:38,401 --> 00:55:40,036
Also, goats are just so cute.

1428
00:55:40,036 --> 00:55:41,037
So the.

1429
00:55:41,037 --> 00:55:43,740
Opportunity
to spend some time with them. Is.

1430
00:55:43,740 --> 00:55:45,909
Yeah, yeah, yeah, really really nice.

1431
00:55:45,909 --> 00:55:48,678
I should try some goat milk
because I like milk.

1432
00:55:48,678 --> 00:55:50,580
I like whole milk. I like drinking milk.

1433
00:55:50,580 --> 00:55:53,583
I'm talking to a colleague of mine, and,
he met this woman.

1434
00:55:54,050 --> 00:55:56,353
Whatever few years ago,
and they're getting know each other,

1435
00:55:56,353 --> 00:55:59,222
and, I don't think she didn't
grow up in Connecticut around here.

1436
00:55:59,222 --> 00:56:02,292
And so she he's telling me that they're
they're having this conversation.

1437
00:56:02,292 --> 00:56:04,928
He's like, she says, like the people
in, like, Connecticut.

1438
00:56:04,928 --> 00:56:07,897
It's like they grew up on, like, apples
and milk. I'm like, yeah, pretty much.

1439
00:56:09,899 --> 00:56:12,102
That's a great description.

1440
00:56:12,102 --> 00:56:13,336
Yeah. That's exactly.

1441
00:56:13,336 --> 00:56:14,671
Yeah. A lot of apples, a lot of milk.

1442
00:56:14,671 --> 00:56:17,574
I do eat apples and drink milk every day.

1443
00:56:17,574 --> 00:56:19,743
Yeah. Now that you say that, not funny.

1444
00:56:19,743 --> 00:56:20,643
Like she nailed it.

1445
00:56:20,643 --> 00:56:23,513
I was like, yeah, that's

1446
00:56:23,513 --> 00:56:24,180
that's pretty good.

1447
00:56:24,180 --> 00:56:25,281
Apples and milk.

1448
00:56:25,281 --> 00:56:26,116
Milk. Yeah.

1449
00:56:26,116 --> 00:56:28,551
Well,
there was a lot of apple orchards, right.

1450
00:56:28,551 --> 00:56:32,021
Like even prior to bishops,
really kind of.

1451
00:56:32,021 --> 00:56:34,891
Claiming the majority of that
or Lyman's like, I think there was a lot

1452
00:56:34,891 --> 00:56:38,695
more of the small scale farms
or like home owners.

1453
00:56:38,762 --> 00:56:39,028
Right.

1454
00:56:39,028 --> 00:56:41,498
When everyone was just kind
of growing their own food.

1455
00:56:41,498 --> 00:56:42,432
Right.

1456
00:56:42,432 --> 00:56:44,801
I'm actually I'm taking an. Apple.

1457
00:56:44,801 --> 00:56:47,604
Tree growing class. And my.

1458
00:56:47,604 --> 00:56:50,306
I'm going to a farm. It's
not like it's like. A workshop kind of.

1459
00:56:50,306 --> 00:56:52,442
Thing. And I get to come home.

1460
00:56:52,442 --> 00:56:54,744
Or bring home like an apple. Tree.
Oh, nice.

1461
00:56:54,744 --> 00:56:58,681
So, yeah, maybe I'll have my own apples
and then I'll have a go.

1462
00:56:58,982 --> 00:57:02,252
Yeah. All right.
Hopefully that'll be good.

1463
00:57:02,285 --> 00:57:04,487
But go back and got milk and apples.

1464
00:57:04,487 --> 00:57:04,954
Yeah.

1465
00:57:04,954 --> 00:57:07,157
Well, there's something like for me,

1466
00:57:07,157 --> 00:57:11,161
like I just have this interest
to learn these practices,

1467
00:57:11,294 --> 00:57:16,699
right, that create a sense of self
versus self-sustainability and like not.

1468
00:57:16,699 --> 00:57:22,071
Being reliant on the system and like,
I do appreciate the convenience of Trader.

1469
00:57:22,071 --> 00:57:23,840
Joe's or like the grocery.

1470
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:25,975
Store and all of these pleasures.

1471
00:57:25,975 --> 00:57:29,446
But to know. That, like, I can be totally.

1472
00:57:29,446 --> 00:57:33,883
Fine and self-sustained without them, it's
just.

1473
00:57:33,983 --> 00:57:34,317
Like.

1474
00:57:34,317 --> 00:57:37,620
It's I think everyone should feel
that kind of freedom, you know?

1475
00:57:37,620 --> 00:57:38,254
And like.

1476
00:57:38,254 --> 00:57:38,888
These are.

1477
00:57:38,888 --> 00:57:44,461
Practices and trades that like just two
generations, three generations ago.

1478
00:57:44,461 --> 00:57:46,963
Like. Was very common.

1479
00:57:46,963 --> 00:57:51,067
Everyone was growing their own food and
they were bartering with their neighbors.

1480
00:57:51,067 --> 00:57:53,136
And like,
there's just these relationships.

1481
00:57:53,136 --> 00:57:54,871
And it's really exciting to see that

1482
00:57:54,871 --> 00:57:58,641
we're kind of moving that direction again,
you know?

1483
00:57:58,641 --> 00:58:01,711
And that was also part
of what I envisioned with the farmers

1484
00:58:01,711 --> 00:58:05,114
market, too, is like the vendors
get to collaborate, right?

1485
00:58:05,114 --> 00:58:08,551
They get to support one
another too, you know, and so,

1486
00:58:10,019 --> 00:58:12,489
I think
we just are on this movement of away

1487
00:58:12,489 --> 00:58:17,227
from these bigger systems
and really coming and honing in on

1488
00:58:18,061 --> 00:58:21,130
who is here, right,
who are we in relationship with.

1489
00:58:21,130 --> 00:58:24,968
And that's just not it's
not just of the human realm either.

1490
00:58:24,968 --> 00:58:25,301
Right?

1491
00:58:25,301 --> 00:58:28,771
It's like the animals, it's
the plants, it's the soil.

1492
00:58:28,771 --> 00:58:30,106
It's the mycelium.

1493
00:58:30,106 --> 00:58:33,810
It's all of these beings
that are like here for us to support us.

1494
00:58:33,810 --> 00:58:36,179
It's the insects. Too. Right.

1495
00:58:36,179 --> 00:58:41,384
And so I guess I just wanted to say,
like with all of what we just spoke about,

1496
00:58:41,384 --> 00:58:45,522
I feel like there's still this
honing in on, like, who is around us

1497
00:58:45,522 --> 00:58:49,492
and how do we relate to these practices
and to these ways.

1498
00:58:49,492 --> 00:58:52,695
And I just, like, have such a deep

1499
00:58:53,229 --> 00:58:56,633
love and appreciation of that, you know.

1500
00:58:56,933 --> 00:58:59,569
I love it. Yeah. No. And then you can

1501
00:59:00,603 --> 00:59:01,237
you're another person.

1502
00:59:01,237 --> 00:59:04,541
I could pass that along
to another generation that's coming up

1503
00:59:05,041 --> 00:59:08,011
because I think there are my son included,

1504
00:59:08,144 --> 00:59:10,813
my older son, he.

1505
00:59:10,813 --> 00:59:13,383
Yeah, he wants to, like, live off grid.

1506
00:59:13,383 --> 00:59:15,084
He wants to learn
how to be self-sufficient.

1507
00:59:15,084 --> 00:59:15,952
I think it's not just him.

1508
00:59:15,952 --> 00:59:18,688
I think there's a lot of younger people
growing up now.

1509
00:59:18,688 --> 00:59:22,492
They're sort of tired of,
like, the having to rely on a store

1510
00:59:22,492 --> 00:59:23,393
and a this and a that.

1511
00:59:23,393 --> 00:59:26,095
They want to be their own person
and do it for themselves.

1512
00:59:26,095 --> 00:59:28,831
And I see, I see that a lot. And yeah,
I think that's wonderful.

1513
00:59:28,831 --> 00:59:30,333
Yeah, that's really, really good.

1514
00:59:30,333 --> 00:59:32,001
Less than the rest of the hands
on chemicals.

1515
00:59:32,001 --> 00:59:34,070
They don't do things themselves.
Build them, grow them.

1516
00:59:34,070 --> 00:59:36,673
Then I think that's that's good stuff.

1517
00:59:36,673 --> 00:59:38,508
That's the right direction. Yeah. Yeah.

1518
00:59:38,508 --> 00:59:39,842
It would be really cool to,

1519
00:59:39,842 --> 00:59:44,581
to see like school systems
incorporating more agriculture more into.

1520
00:59:44,614 --> 00:59:46,082
Exactly. Yeah.

1521
00:59:46,082 --> 00:59:49,652
Like I'm seeing schools
building new playgrounds with more plastic

1522
00:59:49,719 --> 00:59:52,956
and I'm like Wouldn't it be nice to be.

1523
00:59:52,956 --> 00:59:53,323
Yeah.

1524
00:59:53,323 --> 00:59:57,860
Building like garden beds
and like kids can go out and like.

1525
00:59:58,361 --> 00:59:58,795
Grow.

1526
00:59:58,795 --> 01:00:00,029
Food or just learn about it

1527
01:00:00,029 --> 01:00:04,067
or get their hands on the soil
or just like lay in a field of red clover.

1528
01:00:04,067 --> 01:00:08,304
I don't know, you know, but like,
just kind of these small shifts

1529
01:00:08,304 --> 01:00:12,241
that are going to make really big changes.

1530
01:00:12,275 --> 01:00:14,110
Yeah, I think it's important.
And not just that.

1531
01:00:14,110 --> 01:00:18,781
Also like how to like fix things, how to,
you know, carpentry skills and metal

1532
01:00:18,781 --> 01:00:22,585
skills, all those skills that you may need
someday if you, you know when.

1533
01:00:22,585 --> 01:00:25,088
Because life has all sorts of things.

1534
01:00:25,088 --> 01:00:26,823
You run into. Right.

1535
01:00:26,823 --> 01:00:29,192
And those people are around us too. Yeah.

1536
01:00:29,192 --> 01:00:31,527
You know, like I'm going to go and bother.

1537
01:00:31,527 --> 01:00:33,196
Your neighbor after this.

1538
01:00:33,196 --> 01:00:34,664
Rob, he's right next door.

1539
01:00:34,664 --> 01:00:37,333
He's my neighbor. And Stony Creek, okay?

1540
01:00:37,333 --> 01:00:40,536
He does woodwork
and he's going to help me build a garden.

1541
01:00:40,536 --> 01:00:41,904
Stand has.

1542
01:00:41,904 --> 01:00:44,140
So I didn't know he was here.

1543
01:00:44,140 --> 01:00:46,576
But, like, is he. He's in the building
next door.

1544
01:00:46,576 --> 01:00:49,112
Yeah. Yeah, he's right over there.
He just. He just moved in.

1545
01:00:49,112 --> 01:00:52,081
He moved his wood carving wood workshop.

1546
01:00:52,081 --> 01:00:52,448
From.

1547
01:00:52,448 --> 01:00:54,050
The garage to here.

1548
01:00:54,050 --> 01:00:56,653
I guess. He's been in the process.
For a couple of weeks.

1549
01:00:56,653 --> 01:00:57,553
I have to introduce me.

1550
01:00:57,553 --> 01:01:00,289
Yeah, we came over after that.
Because I love. That. Yeah.

1551
01:01:00,289 --> 01:01:02,492
So this dog alley, really sweet guy.

1552
01:01:02,492 --> 01:01:04,260
Oh, good. Good, good.

1553
01:01:04,260 --> 01:01:06,062
Yeah, I love that. So.

1554
01:01:06,062 --> 01:01:08,297
But yeah, like woodwork and metal work

1555
01:01:08,297 --> 01:01:11,434
and all of these things
like primitive skills gatherings.

1556
01:01:12,168 --> 01:01:13,603
Yeah. Oh my gosh.

1557
01:01:13,603 --> 01:01:16,472
Yeah, yeah. You have to take me for a hike
and show me, like, what leaves.

1558
01:01:16,472 --> 01:01:17,473
I can eat and.

1559
01:01:17,473 --> 01:01:20,143
Yeah, stuff,
I totally we can be like deer.

1560
01:01:20,143 --> 01:01:21,944
Yeah. And just, like, pretend. Yeah.

1561
01:01:21,944 --> 01:01:23,079
I love to go out in the forest.

1562
01:01:23,079 --> 01:01:25,148
And pretend I'm like a bear. Like a deer.

1563
01:01:25,148 --> 01:01:26,916
I love it, I love it.

1564
01:01:26,916 --> 01:01:29,252
I think if you're into that.

1565
01:01:30,253 --> 01:01:30,753
It's all good.

1566
01:01:30,753 --> 01:01:31,888
Really, I love it.

1567
01:01:31,888 --> 01:01:33,523
I mean. Let's go.

1568
01:01:33,523 --> 01:01:35,825
It's like healing through play.

1569
01:01:35,825 --> 01:01:38,294
Yeah. Like that is. That is the vibe.

1570
01:01:38,294 --> 01:01:44,133
Oh, it's just like,
how do we move through life playing.

1571
01:01:44,133 --> 01:01:44,600
Yeah.

1572
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:50,239
You know, or like being playful
or being playful or is that energy.

1573
01:01:50,239 --> 01:01:53,242
Yeah. Yeah absolutely.

1574
01:01:53,242 --> 01:01:54,510
I love it.

1575
01:01:54,510 --> 01:01:56,512
No. That's how we're going to end it.

1576
01:01:56,512 --> 01:01:57,780
Yeah. Clara thank you.

1577
01:01:57,780 --> 01:01:59,515
Yeah. This is, this is.

1578
01:01:59,515 --> 01:02:02,285
And we're not going to cut anything.
No. Everything's staying in.

1579
01:02:02,285 --> 01:02:03,086
Oh wow.

1580
01:02:03,086 --> 01:02:05,221
All right okay.

1581
01:02:05,221 --> 01:02:07,323
Even even my ninja move.

1582
01:02:07,323 --> 01:02:09,892
You really need to move. Yes of course.

1583
01:02:09,892 --> 01:02:10,359
That's. Yeah.

1584
01:02:10,359 --> 01:02:13,362
That's going to be the teaser to.

1585
01:02:14,497 --> 01:02:15,264
Thank you so much.

1586
01:02:15,264 --> 01:02:16,833
It's been it's been great
speaking with you.

1587
01:02:16,833 --> 01:02:17,734
Thank you for coming by.

1588
01:02:17,734 --> 01:02:22,872
And and, Oh, before we wrap up, yeah,
just, details about the farmers market.

1589
01:02:22,872 --> 01:02:24,006
Let's get that out there real quick.

1590
01:02:24,006 --> 01:02:26,075
Yeah. May 18th, we are.

1591
01:02:26,075 --> 01:02:26,676
Opening up.

1592
01:02:26,676 --> 01:02:29,679
Every Sunday and to to Bayview Park.

1593
01:02:30,513 --> 01:02:32,348
Bring a friend, bring your.

1594
01:02:32,348 --> 01:02:35,017
Baskets. Ride a bike.

1595
01:02:35,017 --> 01:02:35,852
I don't know, there's so.

1596
01:02:35,852 --> 01:02:38,421
Many ways that you can get to the creek,
but you.

1597
01:02:38,421 --> 01:02:39,822
Have Instagram. Instagram?

1598
01:02:39,822 --> 01:02:41,924
Yeah, at Stoney Creek Farmers Market.

1599
01:02:41,924 --> 01:02:44,494
And then we are launching our website.

1600
01:02:44,494 --> 01:02:46,963
Oh, right. On May 1st. So. Right. Yeah.
You will.

1601
01:02:46,963 --> 01:02:49,065
Find information on our Instagram page.

1602
01:02:49,065 --> 01:02:51,100
Of that website to. Love it.

1603
01:02:51,100 --> 01:02:52,502
That's it there. Thank you.

1604
01:02:52,502 --> 01:02:53,803
Thank you. Cool. Thanks everybody.