This weekend, I had some pretty cool bartering opportunities and with everything changing so quickly, it occurred to me that we have not talked much about barter around here and how you can build it into your lifestyle, as well as why you should consider doing so…

LFTN Highlights this week

• Holler Roast Kickstarter
• Green Chili Weekend Sign Up
• Mama Sauce is coming to town!

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Shopping in the neighbor’s freezer
• Shared Neighborhood Pantry concept
• Putting up tomatoes and beans this week
• Increasing efforts on forage 
• Ball Jar and Lid shortage - will put the word out when they can be ordered again

Featured Forrage: Wild Sumac

The waving red berry tops reminded me of this wonderful wild forage - wild sumac. This is definitely a plant you want to cultivate in your food forest.

Edible uses:

• Young chutes and fall roots
• Berries to eat and for tea

Nutritional

• Source of tanic acid, iodine (What if you could not get iodized salt?), calcium and lots of other important minerals that your body needs

Medicinals

>>A word on poison sumac