Velvet antler

Yeah.

We struggled to get him back to the truck, you know, as carefully as we could with what Velvety had, he had knocked some of it off whenever he, uh, had fallen in the beans.

Yeah.

But we're doing our best to, you know, got him to texture him as he's going to do his best job to try to save what he can there and

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I'm like, and by the way, Buskman, I see you.

The collagen, I love collagen.

It's been a regular part of my morning routine for so many years.

But I'm going to be honest, Buskman, since taking the deer antler velvet, the collagen initially helped mitigate some of, for me, some of the symptoms of early perimenopause.

But when it completely set in, the deer antler velvet just knocked them out.

And so I really don't use, I haven't used the collagen lately, but I'm, you know, I'm always a fan of it.

We know commodity prices around the world, or particularly for New Zealand products, are absolutely surging.

To discuss a product that probably flies under the radar a little bit, but there is surging international demand for New Zealand Deer Velvet.

and what this means.

There is a shift from traditional medicine to mainstream nutraceuticals.

uh velvet um obviously a high value in product now going into to functional foods and traditional chinese medicine uh so that trade show was where all those prospective or buyers from around the globe or most notably asia been in bangkok uh were there and i guess it was a platform for me to one talk about um you know our velvet and the wonderful product that we produce from down here in new zealand down under but also the opportunities afoot in the various Asian markets that are out there.

Darrell, interesting.

You mentioned the blurring line between Dear Velvet's traditional Chinese medicine routes and the science, I think, that is underpinning now, and we've talked about this a little bit on the show over the last couple of months, mainstream nutraceutical ingredients.

It's always been known for a long time that velvet has some magical properties.

It's really fun.

We get on here and talk about our Tennessee Velvet weekend.

Pretty much was the gist of the podcast.

I had a super successful weekend.

Um, and then, you know, Kentucky.

And then, um, we do a late season doe hunt.

It's kind of like, so we start the year off in Velvet in Tennessee, and then we do a doe hunt, like, one of the last weekends, right? Either the last weekend or the second to last, whatever, you know, everybody can get there.

And we don't party as hard, but we hunt harder, really.