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Welcome to my blog!  I plan on making this the written record of my family's trials and adventures in bushcraft, wilderness survival and herbal medicines.  Come follow along and join in our journey!

When people ask me where I am from, I tell them, "a small town in BC.  I grew up in a forest, on a mountain, by a lake."  I miss that.  Living in the city, I feel my kids are missing out on that too.  To be able to go out side and have a never ending backyard were they can let their imaginations run wild, building and playing in nature.

The past couple of years we have been trying to make a point of getting outdoors more.  Whether it's bribing the kids with slurpees if we go for a walk in a park to drink them or finding a new activity for the family to try.  We also joined Junior Forest Wardens five years ago.  That has made a big impact on our knowledge and activities outdoors.  My kids have been given opportunities that we wouldn't have seen otherwise.  The first few years their friends wouldn't believe their stories of what they did on the weekend without photographic proof.  The past few years we have been getting more involved at JFW, taking on leadership and planning roles.

Two summers ago, my husband and I decided we wanted to start learning more about plants, how to identify and use them.  We grabbed a couple books and started going for walks in our neighborhood parks.  By the end of the summer we were able to identify about a dozen plants and knew some uses for them.  The following summer we found a community league that was putting on free plant walks.  We attended almost all of them and learnt a whole lot more!  It's amazing to find out that we have all these super useful plants around us everyday and only a couple generations ago it was more common knowledge.  Somehow it wasn't passed down, probably due to the convenience of modern medicine.  Instead of just seeing green when I step outside, now I see and take note of where certain plants are growing so I know where they are when I need them.

With that being said, this is my family's journey to learning more about the world around us and how to enjoy it responsibly and in good health.

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