Well, we're so glad to have you on today, and we wanted to start by asking how you got into foraging.

Well, I got into foraging, uh, sort of just naturally.

I...

In the first place, I was raised in a, a settler family, and so there was a lot of talk when I was a kid about the things that, that my family had, had eaten when they first came west.

And, um, so that, that sort of gave me the notion that, that you could do this.

Of course, by the time that I came along, the family wasn't doing any of those things anymore.

It was more of a...

Mm-hmm.