Happy Wednesday {{first name | my friend}},

Thanks to all who took the foraging poll – more than 92% said you want to learn to forage. So over the next few newsletters I'll share short videos with Robin Greenfield, who's currently over halfway through a full year of eating only wild, foraged food. Each covers a plant you've probably walked past a hundred times. First up is a common yard plant that's both a food and a medicine. Have a watch below. ⬇️

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That 'weed' in your driveway? Robin shows you how plantago (or ‘plantain’) feeds you and doubles as a poultice for bug bites and bee stings – one of the most useful wild plants hiding in plain sight.

Over the last couple years, I’ve realize that a lot of us aren’t actually low on energy.

We’re overstimulated… under-hydrated… and using caffeine to bulldoze through the signals our body is trying to send us.

I noticed it especially in the afternoons. That wired-but-tired feeling where another coffee sounds helpful, but somehow also makes everything worse later.

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Less spike. Less crash.

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The mushrooms you see when you look at the forest floor, are only part of the deeper story of fungus. That stem and cap are the fruit, the part that pushes up to spread spores, sort of like the purpose of an apple on a tree. The full organism itself is spread out beneath your feet as a web of tiny white threads called mycelium, sometimes running for miles through a single patch of forest. A single teaspoon of that soil can actually hold miles of these threads, all of it invisible to us above the ground. What that web is doing down there almost sounds like science fiction.

The forest is wired together

Trees can't necessarily feed themselves in a perfect way without assistance. Their roots aren’t the only thing responsible for pulling water and hard-to-reach minerals from the soil. They have help. Fungal threads wrap around and bore into the roots, and then stretch far past where the roots can reach…allowing them to grab nutrition like phosphorus, nitrogen, and water back to the tree. In exchange, the tree trades over sugar it makes from sunlight, and the fungi keep roughly a third of it as their ‘cut’ for all their hard work.

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