“We know ourselves to be made from this earth. We know this earth is made from our bodies. For we see ourselves. And we are nature. We are nature seeing nature.” – Susan Griffin
I have found the Earth and our bodies to be our greatest teachers, divine reflections of one another. Two centuries ago, nearly half the North American diet was found in the wild.
Prior to European arrivals on North American soil, the Americas were home to nearly 100 million Indigenous people who relied largely upon an enormous amount of plants for medicine.
“Across North America, it is estimated that pre-contact people used over twenty-six hundred different species, nearly half exclusively for medicine. Less than one hundred of these plants were cultivated. The rest grew wild.” – Gina Rae La Cerva, Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food
When we eat from the wild landscape, we become the wild landscape. We increase our connection to what is most true and real, humbling our minds and becoming grateful stewards of a Loving Earth.
