9:24am July 21, 2013

“…We always had meat of some kind—deer, grouse, or partridge, rabbits during the winter. We used to eat porcupine, which I love, muskrats, and fish. People in the cities couldn’t get this stuff and they didn’t have ground for gardening, so I guess we were fortunate to have Mother Earth to depend on [during the Great Depression].”

— from James Clark, Naawigiizis: The Memories of Center of the Moon, ed. Louise Erdrich (via baapi-makwa)

Sounds like where I’m from, but with more turkeys and groundhogs getting eaten than porcupines and muskrats. Lot of folks relying more on hunting and fishing again right now back home. :/ And I keep getting amazed when people act like *gardening* and eating local foods are some kind of great new thing for snotty people.

I’ve thought before that it does seem harder in some ways to be urban poor. It would definitely be a steep learning curve for me.

(via clatterbane)

Yeah my mom told me that when her dad was between jobs they had grown or preserved food. Really hard to do in an apartment, even though you can grow tiny amounts.

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