Philosophy and Foraging with Pamela - It's a Bug Life Part 2

Pamela here has a very inspiring story of how she lives in a VW Bug [Music] I have lived when I was 20. I lived in an RV and my husband and I also got way back when um a little van again and we basically turned it into a Westphalia we went across the country but I spent years in different places built houses in Oregon in Arizona in California and had had trailers a year and a half two years ago I I sold my little dolphin I was living in and I you know had mechanical problems with that and and this wasn't I didn't plan on doing this and I was camping I loved camping but like I said it gets problematic you know wind storms or you know rain storms and being in an attack right so I ended up doing this and and that's what I've been doing it can get really windy and you know and you can just get blasted with like dust and but you need to be you know sharp and on your toes right it's just part of being closer to the elements but I always tell myself you know don't get too comfortable you have to go out even though it's cold take a walk you know don't that's just life you know we're human animals this is how we live for we have instincts you know we were designed to live outdoors and to experience the instincts if you go out to Nature like green is a very soothing color or under the trees or whatever your breathing changes you know and so yeah things like that wins when it gets hot I head up to the High Country you know what I mean when I was working down here I couldn't do that I had to stay down here and it would be horribly like in the Summers you know I mean they have the rivers here that's nice but there's nothing like going to seven eight thousand feet and walking through a forest you know what I'm saying and the monsoons are nice okay and then you get all kinds of I go foraging you know there's dandelions and there was all kinds of stuff there was there's a few types of wild oreganos up there and this was outside of Flagstaff all over the Coconino and then there's just there's just stuff you find right just all kinds of neat stuff but um because I like plants you know herbs you know make teas and stuff like that that's the original medicine so you know I'm always learning new things and there's always New Forest roads to explore at you know there's like a whole huge Network so yeah it's fun yeah it's kind of endless exploration that you can do yeah and then there's there's also as far as walking to where because there's so such a network of roads like some of these are really old and the forest service is just people stop Brewing them and they've gotten all overgrown and you just keep walking and walking and walking and it's just quiet you know they were talking a bit about foraging yeah what people don't realize is these things growing out in the wild that most people call weeds actually have more nutrition than the vegetables improved in the store right they're the only true organic because we don't unless you do testing you don't really know what's in the organic food and it they can't reproduce What nature nature puts a plant exactly where it's getting what it needs and it's like people you know the ancestors and the the grandparents or great grandparents they they picked the weeds they didn't call them Wings there's been a dumb down of an understanding there were greens you know you make a salad from it it's like you know I mean this is what they knew what our body needed and it's like that it was nutritionally dense and minerals and I have the life force in it you know from the sun right converted perfectly for our bodies so yeah and so we got a Roundup Ready culture know and it's everywhere and like I said um I I will only call the wild stuff truly organic because you know what I mean I I think if you have organic chickens it's okay to feed them other chickens and that's not you know I don't know I don't know if we'll take it that far we've been told hannibalism may not be that fast so I'm just saying maybe if you put that organic Stampin sticker and you charge people two or three times as much maybe there's someone is has a profit incentive and is not exactly telling you the whole truth I'm just saying my grandmother ate dandelion greens when she was young and probably into adulthood and she lived into her 90s I do wherever I can find them they're hard to and my ex he's he actually every where he goes he's looking for him he actually went on a little tour now looking for him because he can't find them and mustard mustard grows everywhere and the Native Americans here actually I mean they didn't cultivate it but where there's little Groves of like okay water it a little you know help it out yeah it grows right back here I'm gonna go get some video of it they in India they make use the mustard oil and it's really they make their own you know from the seeds you can either press it or they have different ways to separate it and um but that stuff's good for all kinds of things wild mustard like other leafy greens is low in calories and full of nutrients namely vitamins a c k e and folic acid mustard greens are also excellent sources of calcium iron magnesium potassium zinc selenium and manganese mallow is classified as a demulsant a soothing agent that counters irritation and Mild inflammation in Germany both mallow leaf and flower preparations are proved for Relief sore throats and dry coughs mallow is typically used as a tea or gargle for these indications common mallow is a highly nutritious green containing vitamin C as well as vitamin A and carotenoids it contains important omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids which could help to reduce the incidence of chronic disease such as cancer diabetes and heart disease prickly lettuce is edible and the Milky latex-like sap can be boiled down down if one is willing to take the time to concentrate that is a morphine-like painkiller eating prickly lettuce can improve our respiratory system and reduce irritation in the lungs and bronchial tubes it contains vitamin C and A as well as magnesium and B vitamins it's sedative properties help in providing relief from migraine headaches South is always rich in essential fatty acids and minerals and nutrients like zinc manganese copper iron calcium and fiber its traditional use as an ingredient in Spring dishes eaten for health and vitality is supported by its high content of vitamins A B C and K South thistle has four times more antioxidant compounds than red wine in 12 times more antioxidants than black tea dandelions are highly nutritious plants that can be in raw or cooked and are loaded with vitamins a c and k as well as e folate and small amounts of other B vitamins what's more dandelion greens provide a substantial amount of several minerals including iron calcium magnesium and potassium the leaves are used to stimulate the appetite and help digestion dandelion flower has antioxidant properties and can help improve the immune system herbalists use dandelion root to detoxify the liver and gallbladder and dandelion leaves to help kidney function [Music] this is Pam's 200 000 mile hat you're getting tired of that or what it's seen some days so maybe I'll go up to sit on it and and see if I could find a this was a good hat oh no pickle juice [Music]