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You teach ancestral skills, from basketry to stone tool construction and more. What sparked your interest?
It evolved from being outdoors a lot as a child. My dad was a scout leader, and he mentioned that cattails were edible. I went to a cow pond, dug up cattail roots and came back chewing one. He told me I was going to get salmonella, then boiled them