I guess I've lived like this for so long, I never really looked at how others might view it.
Right now, my freezer's full of meat, elk, deer, moose, bison. It was a successful fall hunt. I probably have enough to see me through the end of next winter.
Usually, my goal is to have enough meat, berries and medicines to last me till the next time to harvest, one year.
I used to go with my Gram to check out the berry bushes about this time and keep an eye on the Saskatoons (serviceberry, juneberry). I've already gone, and we had a late winter, late spring, and a late hard frost. Berry bushes are fine, but berries won't be comin on until mid-late june rather then the first of june.
Spring, summer, fall..... each has it's own harvest, then hunting season hits and twice a year is drying salmon. No salmon this last year or this year though. The salmon fisheries suffered some catastrophy and numbers dropped from the milliions, into the tens of thousands within a couple of years. So, I'm out trout fishing almost every morning to supplement.
Is it really goofy to do this stuff? I just grew up doing these things every year and never even thought of it as kooky.
