When America Goes Cashless you will need this!
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- America goes Cashless or the economy really goes south HISTORY TELLS US That this is a valuable commodity to have so you can trade for the things you need Cash will be worthless
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In 2010 we decided to sell everything and build a log cabin on 11 acres. We have lived in the log cabin for a decade now with no solar power or wind power plus zero public utilities. We live like the pioneers except in the 21st century. We post videos on social media to encourage people to return to the land and make a living with your family. We teach folks:
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The gas station around the corner from us has apple trees in the tree plat around it. 5 different varieties. A few years ago I asked the manager if it would be okay if I picked some of them. She was thrilled because it only created problems for their mowing crew. Now she actually calls me when the fruit is starting to fall from the tree so that I will come and pick them for her. FREE FOOD❤ and they're just left to grow so no nasty murder chemicsls on them.... well it is a gas station but you get the idea🤭
What a blessing 🥰
Put a sign up free fruit when its ripe❤
PRAISE THE LORD!!! GOD IS GOOD!!!
Bless them
Great find!
My grandfather made applejack on his farm and it was a holiday thing. I even sampled it as a kid in the 50s which was a time of freedom and individuality that i hope we can reboot this country to and live without fear of government and corporate games. If you want to keep the cash flowing just keep using it for everything. Game won.
I can't stress enough how important community is necessary to survive what's coming! Much love to everyone and their families from Alton Missouri USA 🌻 🤠 💪
Right back at ya from Oklahoma!
Double that cowboy! Also building community in Alton Missouri
Hello fellow Missourans from Marthasville MO :D
Independence, Missouri.
That's a fact and I'm stuck in CA🙄
Apple jack from old world Germany is made up of apple cider, raisins and sugar. A glass jar and air lock is needed to finish it off after a few weeks. When finished, father-in-law used to haul it outside in the 55 gallon wooden barrel in the dead of winter and siphon off what didn't freeze. It could only be sipped when done, but helped the Germans make it through the cold dark winters. 😉
That's great, I make my apple jack by running apple wine thru my still.
When did you take the plastic wrap and book off then put the lid on?
Can I make that with frozen apples?
Could you just put a lid on that jar of apples?
And 200 years later. Americans coca-cola themselves to death. I will research. Maybe I can get a nephew interested in making fruit fermented drinks.
This wonderful couple in Missouri is being used by the Lord like all get out. They are very aware of what we are going to NEED in the next year. Let's all pray that God protects them. Thank you Doug and Stacy for all this old woman has learned from you.
AMERICA NEEDS JESUS CHRIST
Amen!!
Amen! I've learned so much from them. Thank you Doug and Stacy. You guys are truly a blessing.
@@LibertynFreedom Amen
Where in Missouri? I'm in NE Missouri.
There was a jump in the video going from plastic wrap two layers covered with a book, to a white plastic screw on lid.
I think that we are living in exciting times. Being able to do for ones self is priceless.
Doug, Don't let anyone shut you up. There are many of us who wait for your next informative video.
Stacy gives the BEST directions on how to replicate her goodies. I love, love,love her two books, "Stacy's Cooking with a Smile", and ""Stacy's Fermenting with a Smile."
Thanks for the updated video on your Apple brandy!
God bless.
Take care.
And stay vigilant.
i really need to make this👍🏼
Where can I get her cook books?
Thanks for sharing 👍
@@Rejoicingwhilewaiting Ditto. Where do we find Stacy's cookbooks?
I just bought both books love them !!
My husband and I got just done stocking up at the scratch and dent discount store by the Amish that we go to. He kept saying "that isn't a good price..." and i would tell him "it is for the current times" he got home, got the tiller out and doubled our big garden and ordered 3 raised beds. We're committed, one step at a time to getting independent!
I am in my mid 60s. My dad was little in the depression and said sugar and coco powder were great to have on hand. His mom would make small chocolate cakes and trade them for stuff!
Doug you are blessed to have Stacy as your wife❤️ She brings a lot.
Barter, just to keep some semblance of anonymity, is going to make a comeback.
So very true. Oddly enough, a lot of girls that have small shops actually do swaps of whatever they have made. I think bartering is awesome
You can continue to use cash that way as well among the real people.
@@TheLindadb I like bartering. Cuts out an extra step sometimes 😊
I did this with pears from my parent's trees. The people who didn't like cider due to it being too sweet enjoyed this. I also used the leftover fruit to make pie. People couldn't finish a slice before feeling the effects.
Wow awesome Ild love to try that
Man imagine if more people had stuff like this, or if we built communities to do these things together to help one another instead. Anyone want to go in on some land to build a community 🙋🏼♀️😃
I do. That's my dream
I do! Do! Do!
Yes, me too!
But where?
I've been looking at unrestricted off grid land in Missouri and Montana. Looking for some land with a creek so as to use hydro power for electricity. About to go on the road trucking to save money for it and the cob home I plan to build on it. So my question is how does a community partnership work? How much land, how do people buy into it, will there be homeschooling for the children, how to split the responsibilities, etc.
Stacy, you are bringing up some old memories for me. Back in the 70's I worked as a jailer, and your apple brandy is one of the things the inmates would make from fruit saved from their meals. Can't tell you how many times one of the hidden bottles would explode in its forgotten hidey-hole!
This video is awesome has great application and purpose especially for bartering. It's so sweet how Doug comes in to the kitchen and helps Stacy by Smashing the apples and raisins packing them Tighter and Tighter. They make a great team don't they? You gotta love them...
Hello Pearl how are you doing today
"And now back to the show." 🙂🙂
@@mchangmi Where are you from?
@@mchangmi Hello my friend. Where are you from?
@@mchangmi Hello Monica
Absolute appreciation..quietly helping and guiding..practical, realistic, not FEAR based, and hugs the Spirit.. thankyou guys for being the salt.🥰 God Bless.
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My husband makes wine. He said slicing the apples thinner would make the absorption process work faster. We have a hand crank apple slicer that makes the apple look like a slinky. I’m definitely going to make this. Thanks Stacey!!!😊
Thanks for the tip x
I agree with ur husband.
Thanks for the tip. So you just leave the plastic on for 6 months. Do you skim mold off as soon as you see it or wait until the end of 6 months?
@@lonigirl8807 I’m not sure, but whatever info Stacey advised in this video is good to follow.
@@lonigirl8807 Re-watch. At 6:10 she says "at the very end when you are getting ready to bottle it I just scrape that off."
thanks for the awareness you spread through your videos. God send us on earth to be useful and loyal to the creation. we dont want an evil world based on buisness, disease and corruption, May God bless you.......we learn a lot from you
Praying for you - we are headed to try and start our homestead, I pray it's not too late.
How wonderful!! It is never too late Torah! One step at a time.... you've got this!!
Go for it and God is with you, no matter how hard it seems focus on Jesus and remember he is there with you. I started my homestead alone age 44 and still am at it. I am a woman with Christ and he is who carries me thru all my hard works, losses and wins. You Can Do it!
God Bless you,
Hope Mountain Homestead KY
It's not too late unless your health isn't good. Just don't bite off more than you can chew. Start small you guys.
Wake up
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Even if you get any amount of time from it, YOU WIN!
Im new a few days.now. Just catching up on your vids. Wow Im loving that out door kitchen!! 🍎 🍏
My favorite ferment by Stacy has the organic red cabbage and gala apple (I add Chinese Daikon radish) in it that is my very favorite sauerkraut type fermented food!
Hi Anita how are you doing today
Is there a PDF version of Stacy's fermenting cookbook? I live in the UK and it's almost £100 to buy the book and have it shipped here. I just can't afford that. A PDF or online version would be amazing 😊 I truly appreciate all the hard work that goes into not only making these videos but also in sharing your knowledge. May God bless you both.
I have made homemade wine all year. I can produce as much as 4 gallon in a 21 day span. And it has a kick. After I strain it I store it in a good dark area where it not bothered. And it can easily be turned into a brandy. Not a big label brandy but one that can be used for most things. I have figured out how to get a high proof and it's been requested by many over the years so I decided I make as much as possible for barder items. And the fruit I tried making a jam it's not bad either. Thank you guys appreciate everything you share.
Doesn't wine, brandy, alcohol have medicinal properties as well, in small quantities?
@@sunnyseacat9232 Um yes...it's called peace! Lol 😉
Ok Betty, you set your self up for questions. What is your secret, how do you do that. For ppl who are not in your area, please please tell us how to do this?
Other than sterilizing wounds, instruments, and colic in babies, I might use it like clorox wipes on certain things when we're sick.
@@anonymos5726 you ask and can't share your real name...no I use my recipes for barder just like I said....barder
I started taking recipe notes, but stopped to check Stacy's cookbook. It's in there! I'm glad I got the visuals from this video. My honey garlic will be ready in 4 days. Thanks guys!
I'm sorry what cookbook? Idk she had one.
@@kristenm7380 thank you! 😊
@@kristenm7380 thank you, I was about to ask. 😊👍
Thank you Kristen M. I'm ordering it now. Do you have the other cookbook? If so how do you like it?
@@dEEmARIE- Great! I don't have the other one, yet, but it's on my "to buy" list. She's shared a lot of her recipes in video form, but it's so nice having the hardcopy. Happy fermenting!
We've been bartering for things for several years. It's an old system that works for folks with limited income. Thanks for the video. The Brandy looks amazing! I'm going to make some and the honey garlic in the near future.
You and Doug are such a blessing! I never knew almost all beet sugar was gmo, you have opened my eyes! Thank you guys 😊
I know, right? I didn't think about that either!! They are a blessing, for sure! Greetings from southern California...
@@mchangmi Watch exactly what sugar, fructose, etc is doing to n has done to bodies.
Presentation on this platform by eminent doc, just look up sugar, the...
U will find it and be shocked.
USA got such a raw deal on health!
Best wishes Cali.
From Europe x
We use maple syrup up here in Quebec.
You two are great. So happy I discovered your channel. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and sunshine.
I need more gallon jars, too many recipes I want to try. The 3 I have are in use for apple cider vinegar, probiotic lemonade, and kombucha.
My late Aunt used to take fermented golden raisins soaked in a good gin for her arthritis..and she swore by it.....She also made a cough & decongestant syrup out of something called horshound... she gave bottles of it out to family members in the early fall and that's what we took if a cold was coming on...
.Stacy, can you do a video on that for us please??? Thanks
horehound is an herb. You can make lozenges from it.
I’ve heard of horsehound I agree I’d love a video on it
Horehound
@@momdolton2095 horehound
I would still be nervous about the mold. 😳
I follow you together for years from belgium and make my day every timE even now When it's black times for everyone thank you
I really enjoyed every video, thanks for sharing your good ideas and hard work.🌹
Love you both the best TH-cam Channel by far on off grid living
Thanks Scott
Absolutely waste not want not!
Good morning!! I made my own raisins last year from our own grapes! They turned out really good.
Could you do something similar with peaches? My grandmother would talk about her mom making peach brandy. She said her mom kept the jars behind the sofa and when my grandmother was little she crawled behind the sofa, fished peaches out of a jar to eat and knocked herself out.
Stacy, once you create the Apple product and put the Saran wrap on the top and the book, when did you switch to putting an actual lid on the jar? And do you keep the Saran wrap and put the lid on the jar?
I am wondering as well
Im in the process of making apple brandy i learned from you several months ago love it although my jar after 8 mo. It has a crack lost all the liquid. No worries i bought anouther jar and just transfered it and back at it .
So excited for bartering if need be . Smells perfect
Thank You
I love hanging out with Stacy in her outdoor kitchen!! Thank you for showing us your projects.
I found a dish soap that has 30% of the highest grade alcohol in it. It is so pure and all natural and you can wash your vegetables with it along with your entire house dilute it it’s from the company called Atomy out of Korea that’s sold also in the US and other countries.
I use baking soda? Vinegar will work, too
just know that grain alcohol is primarily gmo grown....
Bless you BOTH!
I am loving the quiet sounds of you working in the open-air kitchen! We've become so congested with an overload of constant sound. The natural sound of nature is very healing!
I have to apologize to you Doug about my commit about the trailer of beef being stolen! I didn't honestly think it could be unhooked from the truck without the Driver waking up!!! I was wrong and I'm truly sorry, please forgive me? Y'all have so many good tips for us to help when it gets really bad and I know it's coming! Were seeing more empty shelves and coolers that are getting bare in the grocery stores here.
I have been living naturally and homesteading my whole life and I still learn from you. Thank you and God Bless from
Vermont
Dude across the street with apples...yup!
Thank you for sharing more important prepping info! You both are very much appreciated! 🥰
I have some fermenting 3 months now after watching your Brandy making video . Smells great
Thank you
My Old Lad was a kid in the German Weimar republic - the "You need a wheelbarrow to carry the cash to buy.." Era - the 2 things that were Uber-Valuable were 1: Bread & 2: Butter. Those 2 things. They eclipsed gold at the time in terms of value. His parents were dairy farmers, but they never ate butter - it was for selling as it was the only commodity everyone wanted. Plus bread.. My Old Lad baked the bread - he was smart, so he had a big wood fired oven & baked the only bread going in the area.
One day the soldiers landed in - he wasn't "The right sort" in their eyes - this was the "end of the line" moment - Politics. He got chucked up against a wall, they raised their rifles - Game over... He shouted that if they fired, their Bosses bread would burn as it was in his oven - which caused their Officer pause for thought - bread mattered. So the rifles got lowered.
Never underestimate how valuable simple bread or butter can be. The basics. When it's all boiled down to just survival. Heat. Shelter. Bread. Butter.
That ^ is, btw, true. Not the makey-uppey stuff. There's a reason millions say "Give us this day our daily bread.." when they pray - most also prefer if the bread has butter on...Some say the French Revolution was a bread based revolution.. who knows? Brioche is nice - but must have been scarce. Bread matters. Some call money "Dough" - or "Bread" - there's Old reasons why. Making a crust,,,
What a fine story. Thank you.
I am infusing honey with Marshmellow root, ginger, and mullen
Thank you, Stacy! I will get some gallon jars from Azure Standard from Dufur Oregon. And I am a retired midwife. I had no idea that sugar Beets were GMO! GMO foods, like corn, causes burth defects in the umbilical cards and amniotic sacks! I learned about this from a midwife in Bali.
I just want to thank you two for taking the time to help us that don't know about these things.
Being raised in Oklahoma, I enjoyed listening to the wind whipping through the screens in your outdoor kitchen! Thanks for the memories. ❤️
Thank you Doug & Stacy. Hanging in there. Love and prayers to all. We will overcome.
Wow that’s so simple but amazing. Thanks for your great wisdom. A friend just asked if I wanted to come over and pick apples!
Hi Mary how are you doing today
Stacy, I just made your apple brandy- wow! That was a work-out! In a 2 gallon jar and looks beautiful- hope it tastes as good as it looks now!
Thank you so much for this! 💗 We're have lots of apples from our backyard tree that got bug damage and I've already made several quarts of applesauce. Now I know what to make with the rest! I don't drink at all, but it will be great to use for gifts, as well as bartering in the future.
I love your teaching kitchen! ❤
I love her outdoor kitchen! Their whole place is just gorgeous. I wish we had a place like it!
I've been wanting to make apple brandy but was always scared I'd mess it up. You make it look so simple. Thank you so much. Yall are great, keep it up!
You 2 are such a delight. Working together in such a constant way. I love your channel & your recipes 💞
Wow ! I remember seeing this in my grandparents cabinet! I never knew what it was til now ! They were not alcohol drinkers but must have used it medicinally! Thank you!!!
I worked outside in the garden today. I usually sit inside and work on crochet projects. I plan on getting out more, now that the bugs aren't biting. And thanks to Noel, a community member, who mentioned using lemon balm for bug repellent. I found a great recipe using lemon balm and other herbs I grow. I intend to spend more time with nature. I need this.
We all do @kellycarter
Hi Stacy 👋
I collect the tiny maple syrup bottles (from our cracker barrel restaurant - l ask friends to save them for me too lol) for making & gifting essential oil massage blends but a I'd never thought about using them for barter needs ! You're so clever.
Thanks for all that you do for the communities !
Be well🦋
Thanks Stacy for showing an older jar of honey garlic! I started mine the following day after watching the vid. I'm pleased to say, my garlic has settled and is under the honey layer and smells incredibly good! I also started a gallon jar of the Master Tonic aka Fire Cider. So happy to share this fab info with others!
Thanks you Doug and Stacy, you're so generous in sharing your wealth of knowledge!!!!
What you do in the kitchen truly inspires me❣️. I love knowing how it all works in/helps the body. Thanks 🙏🏻
Thank you so much Stacy and Doug! I'm excited to make your Apple Brandy recipe and something special to look forward to in 2023.
Thanks for sharing Stacy. I like the fermented ginger, grapes, apple cider vinegar, or yogurt. God bless ya'll. 😇🙏🇺🇲💕
You guys are such a breath of fresh air. Thank you for sharing your lives.
Thank you so much. Can you make a series of videos on things to trade when we go cashless? That's around the corner.
Couldn't be better timing. We just picked our apples. We had a lot of bugs this year, so they are buggy but still edible and decent. I don't spray. Anyway, this sounds great!! Thank you. Gods blessings 🙏 ps. Did the garlic honey!!! Thanks for that!!
That brings up a question that entered my mind when I was watching Stacy's video: Is it wise to use apples that contain worm holes or insect holes when making this brandy? Sounds dangerous.
@@oldbutstillyoung2170 I cut out the bad spots and throw the cores out. I just use the good part of the apples.
@@leslierm.6732 That's what I do when I can applesauce, but in the video it looked like Stacy wasn't cutting out the bad spots. I wondered if the fermenting process causes the worms and insects to be okay to eat/drink.
@@oldbutstillyoung2170 ohhhhhh. Yeah, I cut out the bad spots no matter what I can. I've been canning apple butter, apple sauce, apple jelly and also juicing and freezing it.
@@oldbutstillyoung2170 Her apples looked pretty pest free!!
We planted a couple of Apple trees this year, it will be a few years before we get any, but my neighbor who had an apple tree not producing because Apple trees need at least 2 to produce fruit, is now producing fruit. So we helped his tree with the planting of ours.
Also, I love watching how you preserve food. I've started fermenting foods because of you. 👍 Thx
We are making this! Thank you!
Amazing timing of this video, besides being apple season ... I was out walking today and wondered about different ways to seal different jars. Why not use the metal seal with the ring or a plastic lid? There must be a way to reduce our use of plastic. Was also thinking of the remarkable Rachel Carson (Silent Spring, book, 1962) and her awareness of the environment .... anyway ... very helpful video ... love, love, love apples!
What if cinnamon was added?
Wonderful information thank you folks
God bless you and yours and God bless the USA
Let sooo much go to seed and collecting today NO IDEA how much you and others have caught us up and beyond in the past two years - LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
Hi Colleen how are you doing today
We go to apple farmer in our area.
3:17 - I love seeing you both standing next to each other, working as a team. 😊
Now that's the perfect alternative to bought stuff. And no more apples go lost in my garden!!! Blessings!
WOW! THANKS FOR THE VID! glad you showed us the honey garlic after a couple years I think you said, uhh? Yes, I'd be scared of poisoning myself! I've got ALOT TO LEARN! we have been SO LIED TO its disgusting! 🤷♀️🙄😢 grace & Peace you two!
Growing in Faith farm LOVE IT!🙌🥰🦋💜
Hi Christian how are you doing today
Wondering why not cut the apples smaller to allow for better compression in the jar?
I was wondering if you can do this process with pears instead of apples? We have two hard sand pear trees in our yard that are usually loaded with pears.
Just planted midsized apple and pear trees this autumn. Can’t wait to try this! Greetings and blessings from St. Charles, MO! 💕
Hey, Doug & Stacy. Me love ugggly apples. You are awesome teachers. If the world was blessed with more people like you, we would be in a better place! Love all the info you share. God Bless!
I can't wait to try this. I just made 1 1/2 quarts garlic honey. Now, when you made your apple brandy you put plastic wrap over it. When you were showing older versions of it the jar had a lid. When do you put the lid on?
Thank you, I learned a lot from you guys. I wish I can live the way you live, but I’m just by myself, and my dogs.❤️❤️
@Marta Alvarez you can do it. I'm widowed, 63, serious health issues and still hanging in there the best I can. It's such a healthier life all the way around. Don't sell yourself short 💜
Ozarks here love these guys wonderful people.
I have learned so much from Doug and Stacy! So glad I found you guys! ❤️
Thanks
Thank you Stacy for the great recipe. One question. When do you switch from plastic wrap/book to a plastic lid? I’m pretty psyched with this one. Headed out now to the market looking for a basket of apples!
I'm wondering if a airlock would be better and you could leave it in the whole time, any thoughts on this?
Great question; I too have the same question? 🍎📚
When my grandparents made wine they would leave a balloon over the top to allow the gasses to escape but let the ferment continue. Maybe that's why she uses the plastic wrap at first?
Thanks bmc. Good idea. I’m probably going to use an airlock. I have a few of those floating around already. I make beer too.
@Stacy please explain why you DO NOT use an airlock lid.
Stacy thanks for your want/need to teach or your love to help others. THANKS A LOT.
Love watching you guys. You two look so incredibly healthy❤️
I make wine! Everyone loves it! I’m over flowing with it because I’m not a big drinker. But enjoy making the wine and gifting it out!
Good morning! Thanks for the great information from you and Stacy. I love this channel!
Hi Laura how are you doing today
Thank you. God Bless you both!
Love you guys. I feel such a connection which you all being from Missouri as well as working hard on growing own food, learning healthier ways and loving God.
I love you people. God be with you. And thank. You
Here in Western Washington, we have apple trees everywhere that are abandoned orchards from old homesteads and such. By the side of the road, etc. Pear trees. If the apples don't get picked up, deer are attracted to them, and nasty yellow jackets as well. Theyou have both an overabundance if yellow jackets picking on you, and/or dead deer that got hit by cars bc they want those apples. They recently made a law here where you could file a free permit online and harvest the deer hit by cars, but you still have to let it suffer if it is still alive and let a cop pop it. But we get free dog food that way, if it's fresh enough, and that way coyotes don't come around our livestock. We try to keep things cleaned up.
Anyways it makes me nuts that people line up at the food banks, who are having trouble meeting the demand, and it drives me nuts that there is all this free food all over the place but people are either too lazy to pick it, or they get turned off by a bug or a hole or blight. It drives me nuts that the govt says people have to have USDA certified food when it's everywhere to be had and we can make our own decisions as to whether or not it's good. We have become so dependent on them, we have literally lost our common sense. There's so much food everywhere growing wild, it's insane. My daughter lives in a household of people that won't eat anything that didn't come out of a box. It makes me nuts that so much food goes to waste, and we deliberately poison our food with chemicals. However, I'm also learning how hard it is to keep the food growing and pest free without...chemicals. Everything in moderation, like you said. "Real" milk, straight from the cow ..has 3 or 4 different products in it. When it goes bad you can still get cultured butter, clabber, sour cream, or yogurt. The ultra pasteurized stuff? It can k I l l ya when it goes bad. That's handy for repeat business, huh! Cha-ching! Meanwhile the actual farmer makes pennies. This system is crooked as all get out and bass ackwards.
When we lived on one acre, we would go to the neighboring DNR land or boat launch down by the river and harvest pears and apples from abandoned trees. We ate GOOD when we were poor. Because we knew where the food was. A friend we knew would have industrial sized crates (lift w a forklift) of all manner of vegetables. They were past the pull date, so they were "animal food". Ironically, he had gotten them from a food bank. That was havi g trouble meeting the demand. Throwing away literally semi truckloads of edible food. ...Let that sink in.
We got tomatoes that one year in abundance. The seeds went down the drain into my grey water fountain setup (also illegal), and we had tomatoes as noxious weeds all over the property In rainy Western Washington. One crate from our friend was all we could eat. We canned tomatoes until we were SO sick of tomatoes. Dehydrated them on cookie sheets inside one of the old dead cars. On top of the car in the summer sun with some screen or cheesecloth over them to keep the bees and flies off. All the things the food police say not to do while at the same time saying "We can't help you." When we were broke. Those tomatoes lasted us 4 years- tomato sauce, soup fixin's. Dehydrated tomatoes dipped in olive oil,.salt, and pepper for snacks and gifts. We did the same with the apples.
Every year there is a bumper crop on something, and I believe that's God's provision, like when Joseph put away grain in the Bible for the times of drought. If you have way too much, there are elderlies that can use it,we help out our kids bc they work full time and are super busy. Because my adult daughter got a freak brain tumor 2 years ago, I take every opportunity to stuff wierd plants and herbs down her. She hates it, but I don't give up.
So anyways, when there's a bumper crop of something, I save as much as I can. Last year we had apples like crazy. This year, the apple trees are pretty bare, but the blackberries went nuts. Incidentally, apples have vitamin c, and guess what helps fight off the c? Had a bumper crop of the very thing we need for the illness that's coming. We had it twice, and I'm fat, older, high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma and allergies, sleep apnea.... They woulda had me jabbed up and stuffed with a breathing tube, no thank you! And I was reading that r em esdivir, the drug they give you a long w the tube for c had line a 50 percent rate of axing people! No! I read it in the actual govt reports myself, which were hard to find.
I was so sick the first time we got it, I really did consider going into the doctor and boy howdy for me to consider that, it's pretty bad. I couldn't get no air. Gasping for air in between coughing. It was scary. Hubs was actually trying to talk me into going in. I'm glad I didn't. I also smoked mullein, it's a fixit for asthma, and also grows here. Opens my lungs right up. Usnea is an excellent expectorant. I told him when I pass out n don't respond, then he can take me in, but until then I was stubborn as heck. My mistake was that I was lazy and didn't start my regiment at the first sign of sick ness of drinking usnea (and other stuff, ACV, onion, garlic, turmeric) tea right off the bat. Usnea is a (lichen? Moss?) that grows here prolifically, and is LOADED w vitamin c. The natives here would powderize it and put it in their food daily. I harvest it every year and take some to my family on the other side of the mountains. They all think I'm wierd. But as things get wierder in this world, it appears that I have become the native plant person, as my elderly aunt passes on. One of my heros. She stopped cancer twice with diet. It's her heart that's getting her, now. She's in her 80s though, she's done pretty well for having started late.
So, yes. Each plant does a thing. We all did this in pioneer times. Yes, some died. And some didn't. Modern medicine can be a help, but we've quickly seen how they try to take over and tell us what to do with our own bodies, by force. I was arguing with the docs way back in 2001 or so. Quickly saw that in order to pay my bills, because wasn't NO govt agencies helping with that, I looked. A lot. That I would have to take it up on myself and only go for major emergencies. They aren't bad people, it's just that they are of the mindset that they know better what goes on with my body than I do. And maybe they do? I dunno. But ultimately it is GOD that says when I d I e, and last time I checked, them doctors don't walk on water.
Loved your message, my wife is just the same ,sunlight is the key ingredient to good health ,get yourself in the sunshine, best wishes from France
Western Washington too. Big hugs.
Well, I made this last year. Just strained last night. Hubby is a fan! Will be doing a few jugs this year.
I wish there would be more Stacy's in this world !!