Todd & Kate

[Todd & Kate]

Beautiful, Kev! Wow! Looks delicious 😃

We just hosted a wild food potluck for Kate’s bday a couple weeks back. This would have been a great addition to an amazing spread of food. I wrote down some of the dishes shared, but I don’t have any pictures. Kate was amazing in the kitchen, making dock seed crackers, cinnamon raisin dock seed bread, wild turkey carnitas, venison roast, lentils with cow parsnip seeds, chewy black walnuts squares, sweet fern shortbread cookies, acorn-maple torte, hickory nut milk ice cream, bee balm maple sap tea, hawthorn cordial, and sumac-aid! Then, guests brought prickly pear jello, venison liver pate, garlic mustard pesto, wild leek pesto, fermented venison ribs, lotus tubers, farro with nettles, wild mushroom soup, and hickory pecan pie with acorn crust!

All so delicious! Wild food potlucks are the best! … Thanks for sharing, Kev!

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Thanks for starting this discussion. I (Todd) have two sizeable bumps on my upper left calf. Hasn’t been an issue, but last night I noticed they are getting red. We heard that’s a sign that they might clot. … I have the UNDA product, and was taking that for three months, but stopped a couple months ago. I have some cell salts and isopathics available to me, too. … The last two days I’ve been hiking in the steep terrain of a maple forest tapping them for sap/syrup. I’d like to keep that up if I can. Thanks for any suggestions. Much appreciated!

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Hi! Yeah, the theory is that our deficiencies are connected to the time of year we are born. The 12 tissue salts are qualitatively within the angles we experience throughout the year, and we receive them sufficiently when we experience them in womb, and then are manifested physically in the fetus (I assume). The pregnant mother doesn’t have to take the tissue salts, (although there is a tissue salt protocol from John Damonte for pregnancy that is good for baby and mother). … So, since gestation is just 9 months, there are 3 months we aren’t in womb getting those tissue salts sufficiently from mom, and if we’re premature, then there’s more. So, yeah, we complete the year by taking the tissue salts we missed out on while in womb.

If I remember right, when I shopped for mine and my family’s constitutional tissue salts, each tissue salt available on the AV site had the recommended bridge salts to go along with it. You just have to scroll down to the details and directions part. … Then, for premature ones, look at the zodiac chart to add the other bridge salt(s) needed.

Hope that makes sense! Thanks!

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Thanks, Kelly! Your thoughts are much appreciated, and very helpful. We’ll go by those guidelines, and see how it goes! 🙂

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Hi! Not sure if this applies to spring beauty too, but we learned from Sam Thayer that there are plants, like sunchokes, that spread more in response to you harvesting them, or digging them up, or disturbing (stimulating) the soil around them. The patch can diminish over the years without your interaction, but can increase with it. Food for thought! Happy Spring! ~Todd

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Hi Ari! The bridge salts are based on Dr. Carey’s cell salts according to the zodiac cycle. Each of the 12 salts are assigned to a zodiac sign. We receive the tissue salts while in womb of the zodiac signs (or angles) that occur while in womb. The bridge salts are the salts that we miss out on, which is typically 3 salts for full-term births.

You have to look at Carey’s astrological-cell salt chart to find what salts are assigned to the zodiac signs your keiki was not in womb completely for. Those are your bridge salts.

That’s how I calculated it. I’m pretty sure I’m doing it right, but please let me know if I’m off the mark!

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Nice! We’ll have to remember that one. We definitely have the black walnuts. That’s the first step! 😃 … Thanks for thinking of us! Looks good!

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Thanks, Kev… We had been following the advice not to use mint when taking homeopathics. I got some Siberian cedar tree resin to use instead of breath mints, and we removed mint from our teeth powder formula. We really enjoy mint, though, and it grows vibrantly all around us, and has such an attractive smell & taste. So, we’d love to continue a relationship with mint. Homeopathy is also important to us. Tissue salts are the only homeopathics we are taking daily. Isopathics and homeopathics we take for acute symptoms. … I just got the AV oral care duo, and saw that there’s peppermint in them, so I just thought I’d look into the whole mint/homeopathy connection, and how to navigate all that so hopefully my fam and I can keep using both without antidoting the remedies. Just thinking there’s got to be a way. I’ll update if I find out more. Thanks! … ~Todd

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Hi there! I got the screenshot from the AV website. If you click on the 12-in-1 salts, then scroll down and click on “directions” and you’ll see it. … Sorry to hear about the coughing; hopefully it’ll become a stepping stone to greater health and well-being in the near future. 🙂

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Thanks for that feedback, Kev. Glad to hear you’ve been doing the maintenance schedule plus some for specific symptoms. … We’ll keep up with the program, too! Thanks!

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Awesome! We’ll definitely have to try an acorn seed cheese of some sort, too. Acorn will be the first one we try 😃

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Awesome, Kev! Thanks for all that inspiration! … We found some reference to seed cheeses in our Sandor Katz “Art of Fermentation” book, including a reference to acorn seed cheese. Here’s what was said, “Acorns (ch’int’aan) were the staple food of the Naahneesh, and many other peoples of California. They were eaten in three main forms: acorn mush/soup (sk’ee’), acorn bread (t’ast) and fermented acorn/acorn cheese (ch’int’aan-noo’ool’, ch’int’aan tghaat).” … We’ll be sure to let you know how our first seed cheeses go, when we try them. Really looking forward to it! 😃

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Seed cheeses sound fun, thanks for sharing! How do we learn more? … We haven’t done any acorn breads yet, but have done pizza crust, pie crust, muffins, torts, cookies and pancakes! All really yummy! We’ve mixed in cacao with cookies and the tort, and it was fantastic! There’s a book by Alan Bergo (The Forager Chef) called, The Book of Flora, which has tips on leaching and such plus some great recipes. Highly recommended! Plus, if you don’t know of Samuel Thayer’s books and work, you have to check him out (although he is WI based and focuses on the eastern states). He doesn’t do recipes, but he’s a wealth of wisdom. His book, Nature’s Garden, has a great 50-page chapter on Acorn.

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