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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Welcome to another knowing you show I'm Tiffany Conno. We have Amelia South here, and oh, my gosh! I am learning so much about herbalism and foraging from her, and I invited her on the show because she has amazing wisdom for you. So let me tell you a little bit about her. Okay, so she's a foraging instructor and practicing Herbalis, living on her small organic farm in Connecticut. So
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: me, farmer, she farmer, we are already connected there. I mean, mine is super small compared to hers. She loves getting people excited about wild food, talking with trees here another like correlation, and helping people heal their problems with the powers of Mother Nature.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: So let's totally play today. Okay, for those who are new to herbalism and foraging and living
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: off the wild food of this planet, you know. Tell us first, st what does it mean to be a forager.
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Amelia South: So a forager is somebody that goes out into
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Amelia South: nature in general. That could be your backyard. That could be somebody's farm that could be the woods a field randomly, preferably someplace that isn't sprayed with a bunch of pesticides.
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Amelia South: That that you go and find Yup. Save yourself, too, from, you know.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Cancer.
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Amelia South: But but
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Amelia South: you're looking for plants, mushrooms, or even sometimes I I think meat honestly qualifies. As foraging. If you're trapping or fi, or fishing qualifies technically. But most of what I do is is looking for plants and mushrooms that are either edible or medicinal.
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Amelia South: And so I always start by when I'm teaching a class by telling people I'm a forager. I'm not a botanist. I'm a forager. I'm not a mycologist, so even though I know some stuff about botany and mycology, and it helps to know botany and mycology. You do not have to be a scientist to be a forager.
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Amelia South: The way that I practice these things is very much
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Amelia South: I I feel like I would fit in I don't know. Like a thousand years ago, or possibly 10,000 years ago in, you know.
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Amelia South: cavemen, society like I go out in the woods. I do what feels right. I follow my intuition like, I know this about this plant. I know that about that plant. I can be the village witch if I need to be. It's good, but foraging, foraging. Honestly, it's really, really, ridiculously empowering, especially like
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Amelia South: one of my favorite things to do is go to somebody's house because I teach private foraging classes like I'll go to somebody's house, and I I will teach them what's edible and medicinal like right in their backyard, whether they've got a half an acre, or they've got 15 acres
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Amelia South: So
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Amelia South: almost every time I do that
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Amelia South: we spend a solid 30 min to an hour within maximum 2030 feet of their back door.
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Amelia South: and they're all just losing their mind. So like, I didn't know any of this was here. And I say, Yeah, most people don't. You know I can get. I can get people excited about dandelions. And some people, some people hopefully are listening, and they're nodding their head like, of course you can eat a dandelion. And there's some people.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Dandelion tea. It's tea.
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Amelia South: Yeah.
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Amelia South: you can make dandelion wine. You can make dandelion tea with you. Do you want to work with the leaves or the roots or the flowers. And what does each part do? Because each part is has different medicinal values, plus they're edible. So all of those things. And it's not just dandelions. Obviously there are thousands upon thousands of edible plants.
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Amelia South: And I. I think the reason that that people are attracted to the way that I do. It is it's it's not just the edible stuff
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Amelia South: I I love. I eat wild foods every single day. But I do also like. I wanna know. What can I? What kind of you know, herbal medicine can I make with this? What can I do with that.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: How.
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Amelia South: How can I heal my body? How can I heal myself, or how can you heal yourself? Because there is a common? There's a commonly held belief amongst herbalists. Not necessarily, every one of us, but but most of us Gen. Generally believe. That a plant will show up in your yard if you need it.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Into.
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Amelia South: If you have a piece of property. Yeah, if you have a piece of pro, even if it's like in 18th of an acre, and that's your backyard. You suddenly. You've been living there for 6 months to a year, or you've been living there for a few years, and you suddenly start seeing this plant this is unless it's like one of the really majorly, majorly invasive things. And then you kind of can't control that. But most of the time plants. They're gonna show up. You're gonna say, what the heck is this thing, and you're trying to get rid of it, or you're mowing it over, and it just keeps coming back keeps coming back. And eventually, hopefully.
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Amelia South: you say to yourself, I want to know what the hell this thing is, and you identify it, or you find somebody.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Grass. I mean, that keeps coming back.
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Amelia South: Well, no, I'm not.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: The Great.
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Amelia South: Gas is its own kind of thing.
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Amelia South: I'm thinking. More like this is this weird looking leaf for this thing? Has this weird looking little yellow flower. What the heck is that I don't even recognize, but that is, there's so many, you know. There's plant id apps, and there's Google, and you can always just go on the Internet and say, What is this thing? Because in in many, many, many cases
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Amelia South: somebody in the household has some kind of an ailment that that plant can help treat, and that plant.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Is to.
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Amelia South: Telling you something. I can't tell you how many places I've been, how many households I've been to, and I say, you know, you got an awful lot of mullen this year. Does somebody have, you know? Does somebody get ear infections? Is somebody dealing with a cough or Copd and the the owners like, Oh, my God! That's me! Or that's my husband! Oh, my gosh! And I'm.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Wow!
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Amelia South: Well, this plant is showing up here and telling you, hey? Guess what I can help you, and you know most most human beings just don't listen.
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Amelia South: So okay, I want to listen.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: A couple of questions. Now, are you
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: mostly familiar with the plants in your area in Connecticut? Or could you then like travel to Southern California, where I live and do the same thing like, is it.
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Amelia South: Most of what I know is the Northeastern one. Most of what I'm very, very familiar with is the northeastern United States. So like Maine, down through probably North Carolina, as far west as
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Amelia South: maybe Oklahoma, and then up into Michigan. That that general area, you know, there's still probably like what 20 million people here. So it's not a small area. There's there's plenty of people in my area. But I there's gonna be plants that I I do recognize and know some stuff about in California. But that's because of my own personal experience. Like I've lived in Washington State for a while. I've lived in California for a while.
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Amelia South: So I do. Actually, when i, 1 of the the years in my infancy as a forager, was actually the year I lived in California, near near the San Francisco area. And I loved it.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: That.
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Amelia South: I I had to live, move there with my ex husband, who was military and
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: No, I meant like what sparked you wanting to be a baby forager.
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Amelia South: I was
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Excited.
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Amelia South: About finding free food on the side of the road quite frankly. I yeah. When I when I was 2223, I moved out to Washington State, and I was living in my 1st like
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Amelia South: crappy, crappy apartment. I wasn't completely dirt poor, but I definitely was not doing very well, yet, you know and I remember I used to like I I need to get out of the house or my apartment, and I'd take a walk, and there's a point in time up in Washington State, where in the year, like July, I think through September, maybe there's marion berries. It's a kind of blackberry, and they're absolutely flipping everywhere.
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Amelia South: I'm talking every side of the road. You're covered in blackberries, blackberries, absolutely. Every everybody has them in their backyard. People are just like, Oh, I hate these stupid things, and I'm sitting there going, hey? It's free food. I want that free food. And I I that's the very 1st time I ever forraged on purpose, I took a bowl from my kitchen. I walked out to the side of the road and I started. I just filled it up with these blackberries. And I'm I decided I was gonna learn how to make jam. And I did that. And I started.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Wow!
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Amelia South: I ate a bunch of it, and I was like, this is awesome. So I started. I started with fruit, and I feel like as far as food goes. The safest thing you can ever start with is fruit, because you're really familiar with fruit. Right? You go to the grocery store. You see, you know what an apple looks like. You know what a pear looks like. You've seen raspberries and blackberries. Okay? Well, you know what a blackberry in the in the woods looks exactly the same as a blackberry at the grocery store, except it tastes better.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Yes.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: aye.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: my boys and berries this year have just
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: expanded, and the and I haven't cut him back, cause it's my favorite and.
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Amelia South: And you.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Oh, my gosh! The flavor is phenomenal. The the berries that come off of my property
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: do not at all taste. I I mean they taste way better than the ones that you'd find in a store.
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Amelia South: Oh, yeah, grocery store berries are nothing. Have. If you've if you've never.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: The organic ones.
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Amelia South: Yeah. Oh, yeah, I know, I used to work on an on organ. I've worked on several organic farms, and I have my own organic farm, and I grow my own berries.
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Amelia South: the while, if you've never had wild blueberries like. If you've never tasted wild blueberries.
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Amelia South: please make it a goal in your life at some point in the future, to taste wild blueberries like straight off the bush, especially holy crap. It's just like a euphoric experience that, and wild strawberries so.
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Amelia South: Wild strawberries are to die for. Oh, my gosh! They're so tiny! They're like the size of your pinky nail, but there's so much flavor in that tiny little berry, and just like the wild, the wild blueberries.
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Amelia South: I actually am probably going to be going out later this week to start looking at the blueberries. They're starting to ripen, you know, and I want to make a lot of stuff.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: My berries. I do not even like get them in the house to like. Wash them. It's literally bush, hand, mouth.
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Amelia South: That's what happens in my raspberry patch. I have a serious raspberry addiction. I'm surprised. I I managed to get like a whole handful of them in the house today. And I was like, Oh, wow! This was unusual.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Yeah. Now I know that you also use them
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: medicinally, you know, making like tinctures, and, you know, talk to me about like the herbalist medicinal properties.
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Amelia South: It.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Because I know you've got some great wisdom there, and you literally make tinctures for people. You know.
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Amelia South: And oils, and yeah, all kinds of preparations. There's there's different names for a lot of different things. So I will.
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Amelia South: I'll say, my, my herbalist little miniature. 2 second soapbox is that all tinctures are made with alcohol.
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Amelia South: All tinctures are made with alcohol. If you're gonna make a preparation with glycerin. It's a glyceride. If you're gonna make an infused vinegar, it's an infused vinegar. It's not. There's there's some people out there that say, oh, I made a tincture, because they put it in literally some kind of liquid. And it's like, not every liquid is a tincture. You're if you're using alcohol, it's a tincture. And there are some people out there that can't take alcohol, whether they're recovering alcoholic or they're allergic for some reason, and I understand that's
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Amelia South: that's the those are the kind of people that would need a glyceride, or, you know, a vinegar, or something like that.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Of it right.
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Amelia South: It's so. Here's the thing, each different. The word is menstrum. Menstrum is the is the word that we use for whatever the liquid, or whatever the material, like. An oil is a menstrum, a tink, an alcohol is a menstrum. Vinegar is a menstrum. Th, that is what's pulling the medicinal constituents out of the plant. Okay, alcohol is kind of like the universal menstrum
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Amelia South: it. It works really really well on a huge variety of different medicinal components. There's a couple of things that alcohol is not great at pulling out, but the vast majority of time, if you pull some leaves off of something. And you wanna or you know, a mushroom, or whatever you wanna put that in alcohol to preserve it, and also to pull the medicinal components out of that plant and the it gets soaked into the alcohol
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Amelia South: and then you eventually, after time goes by you. You strain the the
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Amelia South: plant material out, and you have that that alcohol filled with the herbal medicine, and that is, that is your tincture. So I make a lot of those. Because
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Amelia South: there's a very simplest explanation is that I'm lazy, and I don't have time to make 10,000 cups of tea every day.
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Amelia South: so I do like tea, but there's time, you know, I'm a busy person. It's so much easier to say. All right. Here's this tincture bottle. Boop. Put it under my tongue. I'm good. I just took my dose of medicine for the day, instead of having to wait for the water to boil, and then pour my tea, and then wait 20 min or an hour, an hour or 12 h for my tea to steep because sometimes that that happens now in some cases.
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Amelia South: especially depending on your digestive tract, or whatever a T is, gonna be the way to go. And you're gonna want to make a T,
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Amelia South: but in many, many cases a tincture is also just as effective. And that's why, again, I just take the lazy man way out, and I make a tincture.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: I am so looking forward to shopping at your store.
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Amelia South: Well, right now I do a lot of oils. I actually had a shed, a special little shed built in my backyard, specifically to be my workshop for making all my herbal infused oils. Because I my farm is really tiny. I know you think you think you got a tiny, my farm. My entire property is just over an acre over one acre, so I have a very, very tiny farm the thing is, and the thing that makes my property. Viable as like
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Amelia South: working this as an herbalist, is that
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Amelia South: a huge number of herbs and herbal medicinal plants are actually weeds that most people don't want in the garden.
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Amelia South: And they just show up in my garden, and I'm like, well, you know what? Instead of pulling this and throwing it in the compost pile. I'm going to make medicine, or I'm going to eat it. So my garden looks like absolute chaos, because pretty much the only thing that I weed out of. There is grass, everything else I'm like I can eat that I can eat that. I'm going to make medicine with that, and it just looks insane. People will come here and be like this doesn't look like a farm, and I'm like it's a farm to me.
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Amelia South: And guess what I'm making. Lots of these are herbal products. I'm making lots of, you know. I make videos in my backyard, in my garden. I'm like, guess what this plant is. This thing that I bet is showing up in your garden, and you're pulling out, and you're fighting it and going. This stupid, stupid plant!
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Amelia South: You can eat that.
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Amelia South: and then I show them how to cook it. And I'm like this is absolutely delicious.
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Amelia South: and the amount of the insane amount of vitamin and mineral content that you get from eating those wild plants is so much better than any cultivated food you can get, and I'm a regenerative farmer, and I work with other regenerative and organic farms, and even then it takes years and years and years of regenerative farming practices to put enough, you know, minerals and vitamins back in the soil, whereas these weeds
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Amelia South: flips the seed, flies in, pops itself on the ground, and if that weed decides to grow there, that weed has said, you know what this spot on the on the earth has exactly what I want to to make me grow, and I'm going to grow here.
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Amelia South: You didn't have to do anything to that spot of of you didn't have to fertilize it. You didn't have to plant anything on purpose. You didn't have to water it. That weed just says, Nope, I live here now, and it's full of all the vitamins and minerals and everything that it needs.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: So all of you, who have been like flipping the middle finger at weeds in your yard.
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Amelia South: If you're the kind of person that only wants grass in your lawn and like Oh, my God! You would hate me, man! My.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Invite Amelia to come over to your property and harvest all these medicines, make for you and your family, and then, you know.
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Amelia South: I will absolutely go and steal all the dandelions out of somebody's yard. You don't want those dandelions. You're crazy, because dandelions are absolutely amazing medicine. There's so many PE so many things that dandelions, dandelion roots help clear your
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Amelia South: your liver, they help, they help.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Your Liverpool.
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Amelia South: This one out. Nope.
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Amelia South: hang on
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Amelia South: better!
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Amelia South: How's that?
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Nope, are we yet.
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Amelia South: Nothing yet.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Yes, you're back.
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Amelia South: Okay, I'm sorry. I must have hit a button. I apologize.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Where it's.
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Amelia South: Yeah, you can edit that if you want. Anyway. Dandelion roots are specific for helping cleanse your liver and dandelion root tea. I have a cup of dandelion root tea every single night. So many people don't know this, and I'm just just
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Amelia South: hopefully you can tell how excited this makes me because it's so flipping delicious. And it's medicinal. Okay.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Is.
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Amelia South: When you dig up dandelion roots in the you want to dig them up in the fall because they're sweeter in the fall. I can explain care about, but it's they're sweeter in the fall. So you dig up your dandelion out of your yard. You chop up the roots, you know. Wash them up, chop them up
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Amelia South: and stick them on a baking tray, stick them in your oven at 3 50, for, like
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Amelia South: anywhere from 15 to 30 min. Usually it depends like the little teeny, skinny ones are gonna roast faster than the big, fat, thick ones the the roots, you know. So you want them nice and hard and crispy. Then you let them cool down
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Amelia South: and then you've got roasted dandelion root tea, or the roasted dandelion roots. I'm sorry your whole kitchen's gonna smell like chocolate, because it completely changes it.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Really.
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Amelia South: Roasted dandelion root, tea tastes like a combination of chocolate and coffee. It has been.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: True, hot.
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Amelia South: For many, many years. My favorite thing to do is, I'll I'll take like a little teaspoon of it and and put it in the
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Amelia South: herb grinder for just a second, and then I stick it in my French press and pour boiling water over it. Cover it up. I let it steep for like 5, maybe 10 min tops, and then I pour it out, and I stick a little tiny pot of grass, fed butter and a little tiny bit of stevia powder in there, and I stir it up, and it tastes like a mocha latte. It's so freaking good. It's unbelievable.
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Amelia South: and I have that after dinner every night, and it's relaxing, and it helps cleanse my liver because your liver is actually more awake at night. You can have it in the morning. It doesn't matter. There's no caffeine in it, or anything. I just like to chillax at the end of the night, and dandelion tea is my thing, and people are like, why are you putting butter in it? And I'm like, because I'm crazy and it's delicious. I don't know. It tastes good.
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Amelia South: If anybody ever wants to try that and dandelion leaves help your kidneys, they help flush out your kidneys. Their dandelion leaves are a diuretic. So if all these people that are on all these medications like diuretic medications because they have edema, or they have other problems with their kidneys or anything like that. They get put on a medication and most of the medications.
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Amelia South: Dandelion leaf has potassium so acts as a diuretic, and it has potassium in it, so you don't have to take a pill to, to to be a diuretic, and then another pill to put the potassium back in your body. You can just take dandelion leaf tea.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: So if I heard you correctly. Dandelion roots is great for liver, but dandelion leaves are great for kidneys.
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Amelia South: And the flowers are edible and delicious. You can make wine you can make, but my my medicinal thing with dandelion flowers that I like to do is I actually ha! It's a very special way you need to dry them, because if you just pick a bunch of dandelion flowers and you stick them on your kitchen table to dry, and you expect that to work. You're going to be very disappointed, because what happens is, within about 24 h. They just turn into fluff and they poof everywhere. And it's a real pain in the butt. So there's there's yeah.
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Amelia South: Yeah, you have to. And I do actually teach how to do that as part of my my herbalism course. But anyway, it's just like I've been learning this for years. So anyway. But what when I I dry the dandelion flowers, and then I make an infused oil with them because the oil is really, really, really moistening, like the to the point where?
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Amelia South: I put that in a foot balm like you know how the bottoms. Your heels can get really dry and crappy in in the, in the especially in the wintertime, they crack and and whatnot, and you, when the air is really dry and your skin is cracking. It's terrible. The dandelion oil is really fantastic for that.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: I love that you just brought in like every piece of what we would. You know most people would.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: A weed and trash, and said, medicine for your liver, medicine for your kidneys, medicine for pain and inflammation, plus chocolate taste. Good right.
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Amelia South: And I eat the leaves all year long. Honestly, I I just chop them up and stick them in a stir. Fry the the the stem is actually edible, too. I feel like it's it's like probably the most bitter part, that the stem is my least favorite part. I have eaten it before. It's not my favorite so I usually skip it. But it's not like you can't eat it. It's not gonna
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Amelia South: they. They there's a a rumor that goes around on the Internet every year that says, Oh, did you know that that the little white latex goop that comes out of dandelion stems can
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Now.
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Amelia South: So you you do and a lot of people say this as well. You have to listen to the plants. You have to listen to the trees, if you I I'm an intuitive verbalist, too. So I I listen to the preparations honestly, I feel like all right. I think this is going to be the right thing that there's going to help this person. So I I do utilize my intuition a lot. I
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Amelia South: If you've never talked with a tree before in your life, talk with a white pine, they are so friendly. There's it's like it is like the golden retriever of the Tree Kingdom. It wants you to talk to it. They're so friendly, they're so so giving most plants and most trees are incredibly giving. They want you. They want to help you. They want to to allow you to, you know. Harvest little bit pee bits and parts of them.
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Amelia South: They don't want you to cut them down. Obviously. But I'm I'm not here to to be that I mean, I am a tree hugger. But I'm not gonna say, you know. Obviously sometimes you have to cut a tree down. I get it.
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Amelia South: Some people say that they can talk with anything just by looking at it, and sometimes I've done that. But, like I, I personally find it easier to put my hand on the tree, and not like, you know, in a weird way. I'm just touching the tree, hey? You know. And then immediately you just imagine there's like a little string around your heart, and a little string around the tree's heart, and you communicate, and you introduce yourself. It's it's rude to walk up to a tree and just say, Hey, can I take this?
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Amelia South: Does a tree ever say no? And yes, trees have said no to me before most of the time. If a tree says no it's it's sick, or it's got some kind of problem, and it's or it's too small. It's too young. It doesn't want, because I don't. I don't ever harvest anything off of like the the trunk part of a tree. I will always look for a low hanging branch, or I look for a sapling, and I I want to get some of the little fin sapling.
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Amelia South: I I'm gonna look for something that I can reach. That's easy. And I see. But if I have, I have occasionally forgotten myself and been that rude person that goes up and says, Hey, just can I? Can I grab this? Can you? You know.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: I always remember to thank them for that.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: And and I'm thinking about all the times I've picked oranges or other things from my fruit trees, and I didn't thank them.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: And now I'm like, okay.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: I will absolutely add that piece.
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Amelia South: Absolutely start giving it more gratitude, the more gratitude you give, the more that inclined to give you.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: yeah, okay.
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Amelia South: My baby, my Greenie.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Babies. I love you. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.
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Amelia South: the energetics, you know. Hot, cold, damp, dry that sort of thing, and that's that's for people and plants. So there is a lot that goes into it. But because I've been studying this stuff for so long. Now I feel like I can trust my intuition most of the time. Sometimes I'll be talking with somebody, and they'll be saying, Oh, I have this problem and this problem and this problem, or they say, You know, my son has this, this and this, and I. Just immediately a plant name comes into my head, and I'm like, have you ever tried this plant? And
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Amelia South: but I I will occasionally say, maybe you want to look up this herb or look up that herb. See if this is safe for you, cause you know I don't.
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Amelia South: Antibiotics. Take a week, and they screw up your guts so bad it's ridiculous. Antibiotics are so not good for you. There is a place that there is a time and a place for antibiotics, and most of the time they are not necessary. They're way over prescribed. So I have a thing about. I'm not saying antibiotics are terrible. They shouldn't exist, but they're way over prescribed, and it's become a problem in this society.
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Amelia South: And this is this goes back again to why I like tinctures so much, because, let me just explain real quick. A tincture again is made with alcohol. It's the the plant infused in alcohol in some way and to take a dose of tincture. You. You take the dropper out of the bottle, you know you squeeze it, and whatever
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Amelia South: take a long time that you had. They build up in your system like at any anytime. You're taking mushrooms. Reishi or Turkey tail, or any of those medicinal mushrooms they take a long. They build up in your system. So you're not gonna really start noticing differences in your body for weeks. But if you have a cough
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Amelia South: I I make some tinctures for pain like with wild lettuce and with birch if you're in a lot of pain like I've had a couple of days where I was out in the in the gardens all day, and, like, you know, I'm sore. My shoulders hurt, my my hips hurt my joints because I'm getting old, you know, whatever. And I'm like. I'm so sore. This is terrible. I go in and I take I I dose. I tend to dose a little bit high on some things, especially the pain stuff. I I dose myself a little high, so I I'll pour like
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Amelia South: And there's no side effects. This isn't burning a hole in your stomach the same way ibuprofen does, or, you know, taking aspirin all the time does
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Amelia South: And I don't. I is it aspirin? I know it's ibuprofen. I don't remember what aspirin does when you take it over and over. I know they say, take baby aspirin or whatever. But
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Amelia South: They they tell people with allergies, you know. Take Claritin every day for like an entire year, and then switch off to what's the other one? Allegra or Zyrtec, or whatever the heck they all those brand name allergy, medications, and I I don't subscribe to that. I just I take stinging nettle.
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Amelia South: you know I take singing nettle, and that reduces my allergies. So does Reishi mushroom. So there's all these different things that you can take instead. I mean, this is all in addition to eating a healthy diet, because your body it's a holistic thing.
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Amelia South: You. It helps. So I've realized something because I've had a few people I've had. I've had some customers buy wild lettuce from me right.
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Amelia South: and they'll buy. They'll buy a wild lettuce finger. They'll buy whatever and they're like. Well, you said it worked really, really fast, and it really stopped all your pain, but I've still got pain, and so I ask them, I'm like, Well, what else are you doing like? How bad is your inflammation. How bad of a pain are you in? Have you been taking some kind of an opiate painkiller?
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Amelia South: Cleaner and and the herbs have are able to work on on me faster like I've take if I throw my back out, man. Wild lettuce cleans them.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Okay, I am absolutely going shopping with you on your farm or online, like, how can we get this? Now? I know you've so that is one question and number 2. Tell us about your free gift, 0 to foraging hero.
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Amelia South: 0 to foraging hero is a a Pdf, a free Pdf guide. That just starts giving you the
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Amelia South: It gives you the guide. To what? What do I do? What do I do? How do I start foraging? What's the safety concerns, you know? Where can I find places to forage. What should I be bringing with me? You know it all all these things that you you really need to like, think about before you go out foraging
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Amelia South: And this is like when you think you want to go foraging, not just. I'm walking down the street, and I'm going to eat a dandelion now. Because you're welcome to do that wherever you are. Watch out! I I cannot tell you. I would be a wealthy, wealthy, wealthy, wealthy woman if I had a dollar, for every time somebody watched me eat something
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Or has, you know, some sort of.
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Amelia South: Or something, yeah, or somebody stepped on it, or any of that kind of stuff. So you wanna do you wanna think about where you're gonna forage, you know.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Got it.
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Amelia South: You can go to a farm, you can go to a field. I'm my people. People sometimes give me crap about that when I'm making my videos. And I'm like I am at my farm. My farm is an organic, certified property. I I know where I'm where I'm grabbing these plants from. Thank you very much.
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Amelia South: But but yeah, you know. So so that sort of thing, if you don't like, have any idea where to get started. This is gonna help you get started and figure that out.
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Amelia South: I do. Also, I'm I'm on social media like all over the place. So I've got lots and lots of free content. You can watch.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: share your Tiktok and Facebook.
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Amelia South: On Facebook. I am Black Sun Farm, Ct. Because the name of my farm is Black Sun Farm. If you, if you anywhere, Google Black Sun Farm. I that's me. I'm I am Black Sun Farm in Connecticut, and
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Amelia South: that so I on on Tiktok.
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Amelia South: The screen name is Amelia from Black Sun Farm. But it's at the original meal, Chan and that does sound, and I know confusing. But it's because when I started Tiktok I had no idea that I was gonna end up having a following. I was just bsing myself, and I was like, whatever.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Following
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: guys.
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Amelia South: Like.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: You know.
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Amelia South: I I by the time I did I realized oh, crap! I should have a more professional name. It was too late. So I just oh, well.
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Amelia South: so so on Youtube, my mouse, I I'm also at the original meal. Chan. I think so.
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Amelia South: If you look if you look up Amelia from Black Sun Farm or Black Sun Farm. I I come up. I'm all over the Internet.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: And I'll I'll put those in the links. Put our links in in the description for you guys, too. But I just wanted you to, you know.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Tell us, because you do have a lovely following, my dear. I'm quite impressed and proud of you. So. Thank you.
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Amelia South: You.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: And I. I am so looking forward to doing one of your foraging retreats that we were talking about before we started this episode, because she is planning these vip, foraging retreats where you can go and learn from the master herself, and get, you know, these medicines and food, and just.
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Amelia South: Oh, yeah.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Nature heal you.
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Amelia South: I'm gonna teach you how to make your own medicines. We're gonna forage our own foods. I'm gonna teach you how to cook the stuff, and we're gonna go out in the woods and enjoy being in the woods and get all that kind of healing. I also hike barefoot, and I'm I'm not gonna force anybody to hike barefoot with me. But if you wanted to do it, and you were like, I've never done this, I'm so scared. Watch Amelia do it, and it's okay. Well, you know, I'll teach you how to do it right.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: I'll probably wear shoes, and then when we get to like a soft, cushy place
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: sitting, you know.
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Amelia South: You know.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Dog. Maybe I'll take my shoes.
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Amelia South: Is surprisingly comfortable walking on a bed of pine needles through the forest. Honestly, if you're walking, if you're walking in the woods and you're under a bunch of pine trees. Walking on those dead pine needles is so comfortable it's like a thick carpet.
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Amelia South: It's it's really nice, I mean, unless you step on a stick, and then it sucks. But you know
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Amelia South: the carpet of pine needles is really.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: We will have you sign a waiver.
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Amelia South: Yeah.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: If you.
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Amelia South: You step on a thorn. It's not my fault. Sorry.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: That's right. That's right.
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Amelia South: Side. I know what plant will fix that so.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: I can heal your point. Thank you so much, Amelia. I could literally just hang out and talk with you for hours, because
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: I am passionate about what you're passionate about, though I've never well, I would say in this incarnation, I never
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: really explored that like when I was a teenager I bought a few herbalist books, and then I got distracted with other things, and was Super Gung ho! Into all the energy and other esoteric types of teachings. But I love you so much that I'm like, Heck, yeah, I will get on a plane and go fly over and do a foraging retreat with you.
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Amelia South: Oh, we're gonna have fun, too. Yeah.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Absolutely.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Yeah, I like.
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Amelia South: Excited.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Yes, yes, yes.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: So until the next episode.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Thank you. Thank you again, Amelia and I will see you all in the next show.
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Tiffany Cano - Blind Spot Healer: Thank you.