A shorebird about the size of a pigeon that flies farther without landing than any animal alive. One juvenile left southwest Alaska and didn't touch down again until Tasmania, 11 days later, without eating or resting the entire way. He'd never even made this trip before, so nobody showed him the route.

Before a journey like this, they shrink their stomach and digestive organs down and build up heart and flight muscle instead, so by takeoff they're physiology has shifted to be a flying machine. September into October is the window they start this flight, and the return leg north depends on one stopover at tidal mudflats that keep getting built over.

For the last several weeks I've been dropping sneak peeks from Robin Greenfield's Foraging School into the newsletter, and the response was great, easily one of the most clicked things we've shared this year.

And now, the whole course and community is LIVE.

40+ wild edible plants, taught one at a time, filmed out in the field (by yours truly), across six modules covering foundations, wild greens, herbs and teas, wild fruits, and roots and nuts. Robin's almost through an entire year of foraging 100% of his own food and medicine, so he is one of the most skilled teachers.

Our foraging community costs NOTHING to join. Once you're in, click the Classroom tab and you'll find the course at the lowest price it will ever be. It’s only $97 now (and is easily worth 5X that with the production we created on this).

The cost more than doubles by the end of this month, and Robin's share of every enrollment goes into planting Community Fruit Trees.

Join the community, then head to the Classroom

ARTEMISIA (WORMWOOD): A bitter herb that's been used for digestive support for centuries, due to its bitterness. It wakes the gut up before your meal. The same compounds behind that strong taste also show antimicrobial and antiparasitic activity, which is why wormwood turns up in so many traditional gut protocols.

I’m starting to understand those houses where they make people take their shoes off at the door. The more I learn about indoor air, and dust, it’s feeling similar to why we wipe down a counter.

Somewhere around 30 to 40 percent of the contaminants inside a home come from outdoors, carried in on the bottoms of shoes. Lawn chemicals, road grit, whatever got sprayed two houses down, and lead dust in older neighborhoods. Once it's inside, it stops breaking down the way it would outside.

Sunlight and soil microbes aren’t there to continue breaking it down, so it settles into carpet fibers and stays put. Every time somebody walks across the room a portion of it lifts back into the air you're breathing.

The heaviest concentration in most houses sits in the carpet right by the entry door. And small kids take the worst of it. They're down on the floor, their hands go in their mouths, and they're breathing a couple feet lower than you are.

What to do

To a healing future,

— Rob